Sentence examples for do halt from inspiring English sources

With bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous community in northern Brazil is fighting to achieve what the government has long failed to do: halt illegal logging in their corner of the Amazon.

"They did halt all air travel, because they want to cut down on expenses.

The first war, between Britain and China (1839 42), did not legalize the trade, but it did halt Chinese efforts to stop it.

If Venezuela did halt oil exports to Cuba, it would not necessarily precipitate a political crisis, experts and bloggers said.

The strikes did halt ISIL's advance but did not dislodge it from territory in Iraq where it had become entrenched.

On the Big Board, where the specialists could not avoid the orders, they could — and in some cases did — halt trading to sort things out.

The administration, however, did halt shipments of heating oil to North Korea last year, after Pyongyang's admission that it was pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program.

His approach is too brisk for the longueurs of appreciation, though he does halt before a few canvases, notably "Frosty Morning" (1813) and "Rain, Steam and Speed" (1844).

This offer was rejected by the government, but it did halt their planned second-class postage rate increase.

Mercifully, the forced departure of this ubiquitous symbol of a system that has institutionalized brutality and misery did halt the current bloodletting by his Tonton Macoutes.

Turning off the transgene expression did halt the progression of these symptoms, although no regression was observed [ 112].