That is why, for the self-respecting tyrant, internal suppression will never be enough; lament and lampoon from outside must also be halted at the borders and, where possible, cut off at the source.
Some 2,000 refugees were halted at the Torkham border and 5,000 piled up at the Chaman border.
As the trainload of Jewish emigrants bound for the Hook of Holland halted at the Dutch border, the 18-year-old Alice got out to buy some water.
A mammoth crusade by Scottish Labour to effectively ban Buckie fell apart this week, after Scottish Government ministers flat out rejected moves from an MSP that would've seen imports of the tonic wine halted at the Scottish border and, presumably, returned to the Devon monks who famously produce it.
Thomas halted at the Kelly Farm and turned east.
Afterward, there was the frontier crossing, sometimes on foot across mountain paths, sometimes in trucks that halted at Pakistani border posts long enough for the men to register their names, villages and weapons with Pakistan's frontier constabulary.
On 2 May 1945, III Corps was ordered to halt at the Inn River on the Austrian border, just days before V-E Day, when the German forces surrendered, bringing an end to the war in Europe.
Even if India could stave off the worst influences of the global economic meltdown, it still could not halt at its borders the spread of the newest pandemic of flu virus, the H1N1.
But he can also beckon you close with one hand even as the other halts you at the border.
