I had ground to a complete halt.
Some have reasoned that a complete halt would hurt businesses.
Mortgage lending has come to a complete halt.
"Construction basically came to a complete halt," said Megan McKinley, the school board president.
Then, the week before Christmas, the construction industry in Northern Ireland came to a complete halt.
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which had already stalled, now ground to a complete halt.
"Total independence leads to a complete halt of the economical support," he said after four tense hours of talks.
Its conclusion calls for a "moratorium on Muslim immigration to America" and exhorts supporters to "demand a complete halt".
The Israeli leader has insisted that no talks take place until there is a complete halt to the violence.
But now, as Benghazi collapses, education there and in the surrounding towns and villages has come to a complete halt.
He said that although real consumption growth appeared likely to slow, "we doubt it will grind to a complete halt".
