Sentence examples for halt a potential from inspiring English sources

But the prevailing view in Cyprus is that those leaders have mainly sought to halt a potential financial contagion from spreading by allowing it to devastate Cyprus and its bank depositors.

By all accounts, it halted a potential slaughter of rebels by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

After Blagojevich was charged, Fitzgerald said authorities had halted a potential crime spree that would have made Abraham Lincoln "roll over in his grave".

Biggar converted and wing Hanno Dirksen provided another threat before his burst was halted when a potential scoring pass to his fly-half hit centre Kameli Ratouvu's chest.

Thirteen episodes were initially ordered, and were completed by April 2001, so that production would not be halted by a potential strike from the Writers Guild of America.

In a blog post on the company Web site, Twitter said it had developed a new type of patent agreement with employees that will give legal rights to engineers and designers who are awarded a patent, halting any potential of the patent's being used for offensive litigation.

Drug developer Juno Therapeutics said it halted a mid-stage study on a potential leukemia treatment after two patients died.

Plant pathologists across the United States are scrambling to halt the potential spread of a funguslike pathogen that kills oaks.

Autumn Daste, 30, who has worked at the call center for two months, managed to halt one potential defection recently when a call was routed to her from a polite but unhappy woman in New Jersey who had not received any movies recently.

We've been working with local conservation groups and governments in Brazil and Madagascar doing a variety of projects that we hope will halt the potential extinctions there.

These functions are possibly spontaneous calibration mechanisms taking place in precancerous stages to "halt" the potential carcinogenesis.