Sentence examples for consider halting from inspiring English sources

Consider halting the deportation of failed asylum seekers to Sri Lanka.

Wozniacki was losing, 3-2, in the first set when she asked the chair umpire to consider halting the match.

An Islamic Jihad spokesman said the group would consider halting rocket launchings if Israelis "stop their aggression and abide by the truce".

Someone had asked him whether the United States would consider halting the bombing of Afghanistan during the Ramadan holiday out of concern for Islamic religious sensitivities.

Environmental groups, including Greenpeace, quickly lauded Mr. Kan's decision and urged the Japanese government to consider halting operations at all of the reactors in Japan, which is prone to earthquakes.

The Texas House of Representatives approved a bill last month banning "intrusive" airport screening, but the legislation stalled in the State Senate after Washington threatened to consider halting flights to Texas if screeners were prevented from doing their jobs properly.

At that point, Dr. Carson said, the team considered halting the surgery and keeping the sisters in intensive care in order to amend their surgical plans.

Given that growth -- and recent hog-farm accidents in North Carolina -- several Finger Lakes communities have halted or are considering halting the construction of barns used for concentrated animal feeding operations.

Two companies with much larger contracts in Iraq, Bechtel and Halliburton, said they had curtailed travel by their employees but were not considering halting their work or pulling out of the country.

But for the past couple of weeks, the Bloomberg administration has been considering halting the plan to bring the museum downtown and turning the Tweed building into city office space instead.

Mr. Barghouti welcomed Prime Minister Ehud Barak's announcement on Friday that he is considering halting peace talks, calling it an opportunity for Israel to pull out of the West Bank and Gaza unilaterally.