Sentence examples for deliberate stopping from inspiring English sources

Either there was a deliberate stopping of the clock or the clock malfunctioned.

Howson stated on the team's blog that "It is an amazing coincidence that with the Kings on a power play at Staples Center and with a mad scramble around our net in the dying seconds of the third period of a 2 2 hockey game that the clock stopped for at least one full second," adding that, "Either there was a deliberate stopping of the clock or the clock malfunctioned".

Sörenstam decided that if she were going to have to face the crowd anyway she might as well win and the deliberate misses stopped.

If this is part of a deliberate tactic of stopping trouble-makers from demonstrating, it would be nothing new.

At thirteen, she made a deliberate decision to stop immersing herself in Holocaust history.

Lawyers have written to London's mayor threatening legal action after he sanctioned the construction of "unlawful" fences around the square, which campaigners claim are a deliberate attempt to stop them protesting peacefully.

Politicians will sometimes argue that blocking will stop deliberate access or that it will stop accidental access to sites or that the aim is to stop commercial distribution of illegal images.

But the truth is that it is not only exceptionally easy to evade blocking, it is also ultimately ineffective as sites now move location and web address ever more quickly, so it won't stop deliberate access.

Winter, who concluded his presentation of McKeown's case to the hearing yesterday, also stated that "not one of the 16 stewards who saw both live action and video action" of four rides at the centre of the case "could find a single breach of Rule 157 [which at the time covered deliberate attempts to stop a horse winning]".

While Bacall was not without her insecurities (her famous chin-down, eyes looking up smoulder was a deliberate attempt to stop her trembling during the shooting of her first film, To Have And Have Not, and stuck), she confronted middle age and old age with a defiant lack of resistance rarely seen in Hollywood.

The complaint was founded on Ohno's seemingly deliberate attempt to stop Biondo from being able to pass Smith.