So last year, when Amazon said it might halt its growth locally if the city approved a tax on large employers to fund homeless services and low-income housing, it sent a shock throughout Seattle.
And the failure to halt its growth there meant that it was able to export its violence across the border into Iraq.
Morocco has promised to halt its growth of greenhouse gas emissions by commissioning large-scale renewable energy projects.
There, it is either heated in ovens or, if cured with the Bourbon process, dipped briefly in boiling water to halt its growth.
"The cap will slow the market but not halt its growth," said Khalid Howladar, an analyst at Moody's Investors Service in Dubai.
Radiative feedback from the star will not only halt its growth but also inhibit the formation of other stars in the same pregalactic object (at least until the first star ends its life, presumably as a supernova).
Although Johnson has admitted that Uber's popularity is driven by "the desire of millions of people in London to travel more cheaply", he appears determined to help halt its growth.
City officials concede the program must be ended -- they admit that it is too costly, and that it fails to offer the families the intensive help they need -- but have, to date, been unable to halt its growth.
They have dropped their middle-class lives in El Salvador and moved to the United States in the hope that somewhere in the vast arsenal of American medical procedures -- Gamma Knife radiosurgery, frameless stereotactic tumor removal -- there is something that can halt its growth.
As researchers report online this month in the Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society, a black hole as large as 50 billion suns will likely cause its entire accretion disk to clump into stars and so have nothing more to feed on, halting its growth.
Cancer gene therapies can be broadly classified into two groups: (i) those that modify the host responses to a tumor and (ii) those that induce direct antitumor action by introducing genetic material that directly affects the cancer cell and halts its growth (24).
