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THE procession of mustard-hued Caterpillar digging machines along Riverdale Avenue near 256th Street in the northwest Bronx had halted for the day by the time Mary Murphy, 70, passed with her grocery bags.

A final warning was received at 22 30 from operator Cyril Evans of the Californian, which had halted for the night in an ice field some miles away, but Phillips cut it off and signalled back: "Shut up! Shut up!

The cascade of slights and misunderstandings between spiritual mentor and protégé has halted for now.

His student visa was revoked, and the old Immigration and Naturalization Service began deportation proceedings, which have halted for the custody case.

The studio has halted, for the moment, the seemingly unstoppable march of Marvel, in the No 1 berth at year's end for the previous two years with The Avengers and Iron Man 3 (though Frozen technically outstripped the latter on its incredible international run-out in the first half of this year).

"Although large-scale killings of the type that took place in December and January appear to have halted for the time being, primarily because of the presence of the Misca [African Union peacekeepers] and Sangaris [the French peacekeeping operation] in known hotspots, people continue to be killed on a daily basis".

The terrifying bombardment by Syrian jets appears to have halted for the moment at least.

A motorcade protest against US drone strikes in Pakistan, led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, has halted for the night in the north-west.

"It is obvious that the slowdown in the Chinese economy has halted for the moment," said Fraser Howie, an economist and co-author of Red Capitalism.

Eleven states had halted executions for that reason.

It had halted plans for a presentation of the complete cycle, which San Francisco staged last June.