Sentence examples for halt to make from inspiring English sources

With parades and concerts and flamboyant kitsch, Hanoi is celebrating its 1,000th anniversary on Sunday, and much of city life has ground to a halt to make way for it.

For months, unions, environmental groups, rights activists and others had been planning to grind the meeting to a halt, to make the point that their issues were being ignored.

"I'm just swinging by home between classes," a passing man says into his phone as he halts to make way for a buggy full of toddlers from the nearby daycare.

The wall fell into the building's interior, not on the tracks, but train service was halted to make sure that vibrations would not cause another collapse, officials said.

The video showed the children had largely crossed to the far side of the road and traffic, which was briefly halted to make way for them, was already opening up again when the approaching car, a black Audi, veered into the oncoming lane and hit them.

There is no need to bring the economy screeching to a halt just to make a political point in an election season.

I do not think anything the Irish presidency did halted efforts to make the European Union a military superpower or to stop the widening of the gap between rich and poor, which is the likely outcome of EMU.

For me, the tour de force of the new car came when the vehicle halted at a stop sign to make a right turn.

Instead, the company decided to call a halt in payments to make clear to the holders of its debt that they had to work together or risk not being paid at all.

With the Nets' defensive rotations slowing to a halt, allowing Allan Houston to make more shots than he did unguarded at the All-Star Game shootout, New Jersey had little hope tonight.

If we can't reach that goal today, the least we could do is to halt government moves to make the debt subsidy even riskier.