Sentence examples for grounds to halt from inspiring English sources

Susan Kassapian, assistant general counsel for the Department of Consumer Affairs, said that the new findings, buttressed by 12 Police Department summonses issued this week to Apple Tours drivers operating buses unlawfully, were grounds to halt the company's operations immediately.

Although conservation groups and environmental organizations had voiced opposition to the pipeline project before 1970, the introduction of the National Environmental Policy Act allowed them legal grounds to halt the project.

And the domestic market for homes on and around the lake has almost ground to halt.

Put bluntly, without fertilizer the world grounds to a halt.

But business ground to a halt as the global financial crisis took hold in 2008.

Public transportation ground to a halt.

Things ground to a halt.

The project ground to a halt.

The novel ground to a halt.

But sales have ground to a halt.

Then work ground to a halt.