Sentence examples for halted business from inspiring English sources

UPS and FedEx have halted business in Yemen.

discreetly halted business, and what had started like a lion went out like a lamb.

The House of Representatives just passed a motion to go into conference on the spending plan with the Senate, which had already halted business until later Tuesday.

Her father was in hospital at the time, but his subalterns responded with alacrity, sending over inspectors who partially halted business at the restaurant over some minor misdemeanours.

Wang's parlor thrived under the fame of the former star and ran successfully until the Japanese occupation halted business in 1937.

And when the first anniversary of the terror attacks came around, the networks halted business as usual, and united the country in a day of eloquent memorial coverage.

Construction projects halted; businesses stopped placing orders; some residents even traded in their cars for models that would have higher resale value in Syria.

As transportation lines halted, businesses shut their gates and apartments and offices become hot and darkened, many people headed for the bars.

It involved a call to halt business with Israeli companies, as well as corporations doing business with Israel, as a way to put pressure on the Israeli government.

The China P&I Club, whose members include shipping companies like Sinotrans and Cosco Group, is the first Chinese maritime insurer to confirm that it will halt business with tankers operating in Iran.

However, it is the next level of official venality, so-called administrative corruption, that is most harmful to business as fire, sanitary, tax, customs and other authorities with the power to halt business activity demand bribes.