Sentence examples for halt building from inspiring English sources

The club hit back: it would halt building work, already under way.

Residents suspect they are a punitive measures after they blockaded the site to halt building works.

Israel has agreed to slow construction of settlements in the West Bank but has refused to halt building in East Jerusalem.

The gathering tensions exploded into open fury on Oct. 27 when Mr. Chen's new prime minister announced that the government would halt building of Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant, a $5 billion project that has divided the island for years.

But the talks in Delhi made some progress, with discussion of more confidence-building measures, such as the opening of new crossing-points on the line of control, and an Indian proposal to halt building of new army posts along it.

Israel's refusal to halt building on war-won land has infuriated the Palestinians and undermined their faith in the U.S. as an effective mediator.

In the aftermath, the Barclays shut down all the hotels and shops they owned and halted building projects.

After years of expansion, many retailers are halting building plans and closing stores as sales and traffic shift to the Web.

The groups argued that -- under state law as well as the terms of the management plan -- the presence of rattlesnakes should have halted building completely.

One is a mutual six-month freeze in which Israel halted building in West Bank settlements and Palestinians refrained from using their new observer-state status in the United Nations to pursue claims in the International Criminal Court or other agencies.

AT Pelican Preserve, a gated community set around a 27-hole golf course in Fort Myers, WCI has halted building, leaving some residents staring at mounds of earth where they expected to see manicured lawns.