BERLIN — Germany moved a step closer to ending military conscription on Monday when conservative party leaders agreed to halt a draft embedded in the Constitution half a century ago to help keep the armed forces from ever again developing into a self-directed state within a state.
Later, on the same principle, the warp drive on the Enterprise sputters to a halt, forcing poor Chekov to stop drafting his sequel to "The Cherry Orchard" and change the carburetor in the warp-core.
By early May 1971, Gravel had indicated his intention to filibuster the draft renewal legislation, halting conscription and thereby bringing U.S. involvement in the war to a rapid end.
While other antiwar socialists like Trotsky genuinely abhorred the carnage and strove to bring the war to a halt by supporting protests and draft resistance, Lenin argued in his 1915 pamphlet "Socialism and War" that revolutionaries should instead infiltrate the armies and turn them red, promoting mutinies and actively seeking the defeat of " 'their' governments" (Lenin's own quotation marks).
Representative Pete Stark of California, the senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, said he and Ms. Collins were drafting legislation to halt "this barbaric practice".
The Democrats got clobbered in the 1956 election, when their presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson, who represented the liberal wing of the party, proposed ending the draft and unilaterally halting tests on the hydrogen bomb.
On Friday, the UN security council discussed a European-Arab draft resolution aimed at halting the bloodshed.
On Friday, the U.N. Security Council discussed a European-Arab draft resolution aimed at halting the bloodshed.
After the Brahmi shooting, around 60 members of Tunisia's constituent assembly walked out, bringing the constitutional drafting process to a halt.
An Uber Anchorage operations manager said the company halted operations because the city's efforts to draft rules for Uber drivers, such as insurance and background check requirements, have not come quick enough, despite months of negotiations.
From the early stages of the negotiations on the draft Soils Directive, and since the halt on its progress at the end of 2007, the NFU has actively called for these proposals to be thrown out.
