Sentence examples for had stalled for from inspiring English sources

His predecessor, Dimitris Christofias, a pro-Russian, Moscow-educated communist, had stalled for months.

Three weeks after the games would have begun, when the talks had stalled for what seemed like the last time, Quinn stepped forward and brought the parties together.

The report found signs that the rapid upward mobility long associated with new immigrants had stalled for the current generation of illegal immigrants.

And there is something enraging about McConnell, who had stalled for months on bringing CHIP to the Senate floor, piously reminding his colleagues how "vulnerable" these children are.

Negotiations over some sort of message to Syria had stalled for months in the face of opposition from Russia and the others, but the mounting toll in the violence over antigovernment protests finally prompted a revived effort.

He said he did not know why the investigation had stalled for so many years; as Ms. Crilley's boyfriend, he said, he became a suspect, and his friends in the Police Department did not share information with him.

Negotiations have stalled for over a year.

Growth has stalled for the past five years.

But those ambitions have stalled — for now, at least.

It has stalled for now in the Democratic-led Assembly.

The promise of 1989-91 hastalleded, for now, in the authoritarian regimes in Moscow and Beijing.