Joggers jogged no more; cars halted and switched engines off; even mad dogs obeyed the prevailing peace; and then, rather beautifully, the national anthem played.
At the sites where Israeli rockets had plowed into a police headquarters, a power station and a guard post, just 150 yards from Yasir Arafat's beachside headquarters, the cars halted.
The car halts before a tall gate that snaps shut behind us.
The Pakistani colonel in the front seat ignored their protests to stop until the American commander drew his pistol and demanded that the car halt.
A stop-start system shuts down the engine, to save fuel, when the car is halted.
Car production halted by a strike could be recovered with overtime; one day's newspaper production would be lost forever.
Chad Jones, a Giants third-round pick in 2010, has made impressive strides since a car accident halted his career soon after he was drafted from L.S.U. as a safety.
The elevator had scarcely started its ascent when a woman near the rear started screaming, "Oh, my God, let me out of here!" The car was halted at the nearest floor, and out she shot.
The stone slid through the series of concentric circles called the house and stopped right in the button, as if a car had halted just before plummeting over a cliff.
The other day a gentleman complained that up on Riverside Drive recently his car was halted by a red light just in time to let him get the tailend of a conversation between two old ladies in an adjoining limousine.
