Sentence examples for declared a halt from inspiring English sources

Four months ago it declared a halt to "offensive armed actions".

Total's venture in Nigeria declared a halt "on all Nigerian deliveries," a spokeswoman, Patricia Marie, said in a telephone interview from Paris.

More than 800 people have died in Eta violence since the group was founded in 1968, but it declared a halt to "offensive armed actions" in September.

A few days later, Governor Ryan declared a halt to executions in Illinois, making him the first governor to impose such a moratorium.

The administration declared a halt to deepwater drilling after the April 20 explosion of the rig leased to the British oil giant BP that killed 11 workers and spilled nearly five million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

In a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Judge Emmet Sullivan declared a halt to the Bush administration's plan to continue and indeed expand snowmobile use in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.

But he was also the governor who dared to declare a halt to executions in Illinois.

But Mr. Arafat stopped short of actually declaring a halt to hostilities, and Israelis dismissed the statement.

Perhaps now is the time to declare a halt to the practice, for liberals like John Paul II and John XXIII, as well as for conservatives like Pius XII.

Tuesday, the International Day of Peasant Struggle, is a good moment to call on the Rio Earth summit to declare a halt.

The Palestinians want the indirect talks to deal with the substantive issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and have refused to engage in direct talks unless Israel declares a halt to all settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.