Sentence examples for for once stopped from inspiring English sources

In another blow to the Department of Justice, a federal judge upheld Oregon's assisted-suicide law.Striking BerlusconiItaly's three big trade-union confederations, acting together for once, stopped the country with an eight-hour general strike, the first since 1982.

Punk rocker Jello Biafra, in town for a show, once stopped by the house specifically because he'd heard the legend of Chauncey.

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He was once stopped for drinking and driving, but the charge was downgraded to careless driving because his blood-alcohol level was just over the limit.

Once, stopped for speeding, he explained he was on his way to perform emergency surgery and ended up with a police escort.

Then there was the unfulfilled promise of Ron Blomberg, the first designated hitter in baseball history, who had such a prodigious appetite that he once stopped for a 6 o'clock snack -- two hamburgers, two steak sandwiches, a hot dog, two orders of potato salad and a pitcher of iced tea- before a 7 30 dinner date, at which he devoured a full-course steak dinner.

"Somebody once stopped production for a day to get her.

His Italian Alpine regiment had once stopped firing for three weeks on the Austrians, whose language many of them spoke; they had swapped loaves of bread for tobacco and taken pictures of each other.

I once stopped drinking for a month as a test and it was a nightmare.

How they once stopped speaking for a whole week because of the pen clicking, because Candice couldn't help herself in dull moments and how Isobel had exploded.

Asked how regularly he attends clinic, a 72 year old man with uncontrolled hypertension [ID27] replied – visiting is difficult for me because of the many hours spent in clinic, which could be used on my business; in fact I once stopped coming for about 2 months when I realized my hypertension was 'under control'.