Sentence examples for halted off from inspiring English sources

China had demanded that American patrols be halted off its entire coast after the collision of the Navy EP-3E surveillance plane and the Chinese fighter over the South China Sea, which resulted in the death of the Chinese pilot and the detention of the 24-member American crew for 11 days after it made an emergency landing on Hainan island.

But difficulties in halting North Korea's missile trade were evident in December, when a North Korean cargo vessel that was not flying a flag was halted off the Horn of Africa by two Spanish warships.

This week she was sort of proved right, as a Russian owned cargo ship travelling to Syria from Russia's Kaliningrad port was halted off the coast of Scotland.

Virtually nothing was ever built and anything that was being built was halted, sold off, or abandoned.

His voice cracking, he halted his off-the-cuff talk several times to keep from breaking into tears, but the 63-year-old Vermeil had a simple explanation for leaving.

There is going to be a lot of pressure to go even further, but we need to remember that even if we halted all off-shore drilling, all we would be doing is moving the production to other areas outside the U.S., probably with even weaker environmental laws.

And lo and behold, it works, with the second laptop streaming a video which buffers and halts once I block off the light completely.

In the past Carlyle has halted or spun off funds that could not get that big.

Under the command of Colonel William Holmes, the force departed Sydney on 19 August aboard HMAS Berrima and halted at Palm Island off Townsville until a New Zealand force, escorted by the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, cruiser HMAS Melbourne and the French cruiser Montcalm, occupied Samoa on 30 August.

As the competition and market authority (CMA) launched measures to halt rip-offs in the energy supply sector the rain fell across many parts of Britain.

In return, it is "quite normal" to ask them to halt lay-offs, to keep existing factories open and if possible to "bring production home" from lower-cost countries.A second European says that governments should focus on ensuring individual workers are employable, not propping up uncompetitive firms.