Sentence examples for halt around from inspiring English sources

Mass caccination for smallpox came to a worldwide halt around twenty-five yeago ago.

It is hardly surprising that the war ground to a halt around Mbuji-Mayi, the main diamond-producing area.

As both Ms. Mulzac's health and the condition of her store deteriorated, she worked less and less, and the store ground to a halt around 2007.

But on Thursday, rail cars heaped with fresh grain came to a halt around Russia, stopped in midjourney from the country's fields to the main exporting ports on the Black Sea.

Accordingly, when this worthy occasion finally ground to a halt around lunchtime, the more adventurous of us schoolboys would nip down the nearest alleyway to turn our blazers inside out, thus disguising our age and employment status.

Sanitation police officer William Lugo brought traffic on Second Avenue to a sudden halt around midnight a few nights ago as he ran red lights rushing to the aid of William Martinez, another sanitation cop.

I came to a halt, turned around and saw my money literally blowing in the wind.

The bondsmen halted around their masters, hands on sword hilts.

But the Chinese were halted around P'yŏngt'aek (about 30 miles south of Seoul), and in February the UN General Assembly formally condemned China as an aggressor.

At 2 28 p.m., exactly a week after the quake, traffic halted around the country, and millions of Chinese stood for three minutes with bowed heads and teary eyes.

The quake had forced Codelco to shut the El Teniente complex as well as its Andina copper mine, while Anglo American shut its Los Bronces and El Soldado mines, cutoffs that halted around one-fifth of Chile's total production.