Sentence examples for halted shortly from inspiring English sources

before trading was halted shortly before the markets closed.

The construction was halted shortly afterward by a lawsuit brought brought by the Botanical Garden.

The match was halted shortly before half-time after men encroached onto the pitch on three separate occasions.

Defense lawyers contend their clients were illegally tortured and are considering calling the C.I.A. officers to the witness stand if the military commission trials — which President Obama halted shortly after he took office, but has since proposed reviving in a modified form — are resumed.

Three more months were devoted to working on the proofs of the book before Joyce halted work shortly before his self-imposed deadline, his 40th birthday (2 February 1922).

Several banks temporarily halted foreclosures shortly after some of the more egregious practices were revealed, but resumed seizing homes as the scandal fell off the front pages.

In the end, on October 20th, a French fighter plane bombarded Qaddafi's convoy to a bloody halt, shortly before he was captured and slaughtered by Libyan rebels.

Their attempts to control aggressive behaviour by removing parts of the hypothalamus seem to have ground to a halt shortly after Derek's operation.

Deflation needs little help destroying an economy, but in Japan's case it is abetted by aging demographics and lagging innovation: Japan's working-age population started shrinking in 1995, and productivity growth ground to a halt shortly thereafter.

In the end, the convoy ground to a halt shortly after the turnoff, still about 20 miles from the border and, over a period of two hours, the vehicles parked in neat lines, throwing up clouds of dust.

They were spoofing these very iconic Powell Peralta graphics (by Victor Courtland Johnson) and basically a bunch of dude's careers came to a screeching halt shortly thereafter.