Sentence examples for constructed to stop from inspiring English sources

Built by East Germany in phases from 1952 to the late 1980s, the fortifications were constructed to stop the large-scale emigration of East German citizens to the West, about 1,000 of whom are said to have died trying to cross it during its 45-year existence.

Call it a "firebreak," the term firefighters use for a man-made barrier constructed to slow or stop the progress of a wildfire.

In 2001, the Spanish government constructed fences to stop illegal migrants from crossing these borders.

Many writers, trying to justify a point of military futility, have seized upon the Maginot Line as being the classic example (of a White Elephant), which is to ignore the fact that the defenses fulfilled the purpose for which they were constructed -- to stop a German invasion of Alsace and Lorraine.

Instead, just as with the banking crisis, Europe must construct a firewall to stop the crisis from spreading.

In his last appearance before this group, soon after he took office in 2009, Mr. Biden warned, "You're not going to like this," before declaring that the Obama administration wanted Israel to stop constructing settlements, as a way to jump-start peace talks with the Palestinians.

The people... may have moved more earth and stone [in recent years] to reshape the surface of their land than the Egyptians during thousands of years to build the pyramids," says Reij. "In the early 1990s every able-bodied villager in Tigray had to contribute three months of labour to dig pits to save water, or to construct terraces and bunds to stop water rushing off the hills.

It is time to stop constructing a generation disconnected from the past and from the rest of world.

Has Obama truly twisted Israel's arm, forcing it to dismantle a single West Bank settlement, or even to stop constructing new ones?

The Illusive Man explains that Shepard must construct a team in order to stop the Collectors who reside beyond the Omega-4 Relay, a place from which no ship has ever returned.

We generated a TMEM16A construct with both ATGs mutagenized to stop codons M1X-M117XX).