Sentence examples for halt abruptly from inspiring English sources

The action in a Marías novel will, at the most critical moment, halt abruptly as the narrator spends paragraphs, even pages, in philosophical contemplation.

Mr. Villella's dancing career came to a halt abruptly because of a deteriorated hip, but he managed to return to dance briefly, ensuring that he would go out on his own terms.

The victim is said to have been travelling on the escalator when somebody pressed the emergency stop button, causing the machine to halt abruptly and throw the elderly woman down the steps.

Some clinical trials have been halted abruptly as patients developed severe or fatal side effects.

The novel halts abruptly at the point of his decision – to take the treatment or not?

His first involvement was a missed tackle on George Pisi, his second a strong charge halted abruptly by the referee's whistle because of obstruction by Courtney Lawes.

Nortel's problems became apparent earlier this year after the feverish construction of communications networks expected to usher in an age of fast-growing Internet traffic halted abruptly.

It unwound each September with Columbus's voyage to the New World and halted abruptly each June just shy of James Buchanan's inauguration.

Tells about the Kunsthalle piece, which involves a gradually building sound that halts abruptly, about a similar piece at the Whitney Museum & about an alarm clock Neuhaus experimented with that operated on the same principle.

But growth was halted abruptly in 1920, with membership at 45 percent of the work force, and in conditions of heavy unemployment there followed a long decline into the early 1930s.

In May 1995, Reeve was taking part in a cross-country equestrian event when his thoroughbred horse, Buck, halted abruptly before a jump - scared, perhaps, by a rabbit, Reeve has speculated - and pitched his rider head-first to the ground.