Sentence examples for had almost ceased from inspiring English sources

But by the 1980s westerns had almost ceased to be produced in the United States.

But by 1996, the year he enrolled, the university had almost ceased to exist.

"I waited for so long for this to happen I had almost ceased to believe in my chances of winning a Tour stage," said Voeckler.

Moreover, evidence from East Polynesia suggests that long-distance trading had almost ceased around that time, and that the ability to make long voyages may have been lost among Māori.

Oil executives had considered the effort such a gamble that they had almost ceased to invest in it by 1995, so Mr. Klein's government came up with a plan to kick-start development: It charged companies only 1 percent on their revenue until all construction costs were paid.

Its own policies in Afghanistan a decade and more ago helped to create both Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalist Taliban regime that shelters him.The notion of jihad, or holy war, had almost ceased to exist in the Muslim world after the tenth century until it was revived, with American encouragement, to fire an international pan-Islamic movement after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

Harare's two biggest hospitals have almost ceased to function.

"Conservatism in the spirit of Madison" has almost ceased to exist.

These are voices that have almost ceased to be heard in the US.

In fact, since the multitude of road blocks and the walls, terrorism has almost ceased.

Some immigrant streams, from countries such as Vietnam, Laos and Mauritius, have almost ceased.