Sentence examples for for a standstill from inspiring English sources

Best Buy had asked for a standstill of 18 months, and then a one-year standstill.

This is the main reason Mr. Ackman is resisting Canadian Pacific's request for a standstill.

That is just part of the $26 billion of debt that its parent group, Dubai World, is now seeking to restructure, having asked for a standstill on repayments.

The fallout came swiftly after yesterday's statement that Dubai's main development engine, Dubai World, would ask creditors for a "standstill" on paying back its 60 billion dollar debt until at least May.

In early 2009, an announcement that Dubai World was looking for a standstill agreement on $59 billion of liabilities — along with a little more shaky debt from the emirate itself — would have been just another worry.

The rest is held by local banks, which are inclined to support Dubai World's request for a standstill as long as it means they will not have to take a loss on their holdings.

"The lack of information when there's problems is such a pain and every so often you get a real problem and you can be waiting for ages at a standstill.

By October, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Arts Council England and the arts world will know if the funding for the arts will remain at a standstill for the next three years or will actually be reduced.

In so doing the fragments constitute the dialectical image, dialectical movement frozen for a moment, open for inspection, dialectics at a standstill: "Only dialectical images are genuine images".

And they could not suppress their delight at the news: traffic was bumper to bumper for four miles at the Bourne Bridge and at a standstill for two miles at the Sagamore Bridge.

Unite regional secretary for London, Peter Kavanagh, said: "London buses will come to a standstill for the first time in a generation across London on 22 June.