Sentence examples for halt within from inspiring English sources

Transit workers, caught off guard by the shutdown that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Monday, scrambled to grind the network to a halt within hours.

As far back as last October, highly placed Russians sent word to the Administration that there would be substantial support for a MIRV halt within the Soviet Government.

If the hook does catch a wire, the plane is slammed to a halt within about two seconds and 300 feet.

Mr. Obama began direct negotiations with great hoopla in early September, but the talks ground to a halt within weeks over the issue of settlements.

Some of the stupid orders might have been executed, but trading in the affected stocks would have come to a halt within minutes while people tried to figure out what was going on.

If workers at Wilton downed tools (and Sir John was quick to spot the stirrings of industrial unrest that were to lead to the "winter of discontent" in 1978-79), the whole company would grind to a halt within days.

If the current timetable holds, the worst deterioration will be halted within the next few years.

The Centcom official said the attack was halted within minutes, but not until dozens had been killed.

Instead, the order came that all substitution therapy programmes had to be completely halted within four weeks, even though coming off methadone safely takes several months.

In 1879, Col. Nikolai Prejevalsky of the Imperial Russian Army set out with an escort of armed Cossacks for the Tibetan capital, only to be halted within 150 miles of Lhasa by Tibetan officials.

Some drilling started this month but was halted within days after it emerged that an ice floe 30 miles long and 12 miles wide appeared to be heading towards the drill ship.