Sentence examples for halt began from inspiring English sources

The halt began in the middle of a diplomatic dispute between China and Japan in which Japanese justice officials were considering whether to prosecute the captain of a Chinese fishing trawler arrested Sept. 8.

Construction that requires service changes will be halted beginning the weekend before the convention, and officials are encouraging people who usually ride buses in Midtown to use the subway instead.

The food stamp program that millions of Americans rely on may grind to a halt beginning in February, and the Internal Revenue Service will not be able to process refunds.

The halt, which began in September, also began the same month the administration started a review of government-funded research using fetal tissue.

After word spread from the floor that the noise was effectively grinding the Senate to a halt, Ms. Richards began pumping her arms in the air, signaling to all around her to be as loud as possible.

Then, the week before Christmas, roughly three months after the neonicotinoid treatment was halted, hives began to fail.

With each eyewitness that testified, another mystery retreated and the truth, in all its halting savagery, began to assemble itself in the minds of Kwementyaye's family.

Around 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning, sweaty from two trains and a minicab, I walked in on her without knocking - then halted and began to retreat.

Halting speculation began on 2016 nominations, as though an Obama reelection was inescapable.

There is a large consensus among the members of free world that Turkey's liberal trajectory long ago halted and began rolling backwards through means of majoritarian authoritarianism by President Recep Tayyib Erdogan.

The targets associated with the health MDGs are to: (i) reduce child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015; (ii) reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015; (iii) halt and begin to reverse the spread of AIDS by 2015; and (iv) halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases by 2015.