Sentence examples for halt somewhere from inspiring English sources

A Jangada de Pedra (The Stone Raft, 1986) questions what would happen if Iberia detached from the Pyrenees and floated off across the Atlantic, shuddering to a halt somewhere between the former Portuguese colonies of Brazil and Angola.

"We have to call a halt somewhere or you will be moving into the hundreds of millions before we know where we are and that will not be tolerated by wider society," said Simon Walker, director general of the Institute of Directors, after the BP vote.

Scott Ellis, a financial consultant traveling from the Flatiron District to a friend's home in Midtown by way of the Lexington Avenue line, said that his crowded train abruptly came to a halt somewhere in the darkness of the tunnel north of East 23rd Street.

It is unclear where the dispute is leading, but no one rules out that the reconstruction, scheduled to begin in two months, may be halted somewhere along the line.

As I write, I am stuck on a halted train somewhere north of Dundalk, unable to cross the Irish border.

The building boom halted.

"There were many moments in the system where this could have been halted, and something somewhere broke," said Dr. Antonia C. Novello, the state health commissioner.

This is somewhere to halt for a while.

"Then that night one of the Marine runners was taking a message from the colonel somewhere, and they hollered 'Halt!' and I guess he didn't hear them.

Fenn never meant for his treasure hunt to be easy: His poem points searchers to somewhere beyond "where warm waters halt … in the canyon down … too far to walk … below the home of Brown".

Informed of the Bulgarian offensive, the surprised Leo sent an army consisting of guardsmen and other military units from the capital to halt Simeon, but his troops were routed somewhere in the theme of Macedonia.