It halted the increases in August.
Now, worried health officials and school administrators are pushing policies they hope will halt the increase.
Spending trillions on exquisite carbon science and engineering will accomplish little if we cannot halt the increase in global population.
It is defeatism to give up hope that we may halt the increase in drug use, and the increase, therefore, of drug-related crime.
In his final speech, de Boer said: "As things stand now we will not be able to halt the increase of global greenhouse gas emissions in the next 10 years.
He said on Sunday that his party had promised during the election campaign to halt the increase, and that the only alternative was to hold early elections.
The state government launched a schools-based plan to halt the increase, which included regular reports to parents about their children's weight.
Politicians and advocates, from Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Families USA on the left to the Health Insurance Association of America on the right, are now clamoring for incremental steps to halt the increase in the number of uninsured.
Matt Johnson, the commission's president, demanded an in-depth analysis of use of force by police in Los Angeles and other cities over the past 10 years, as well as a review of LAPD equipment and training, to try to halt the increase in violent confrontations between police and suspects.
The World Health Organization's recent resolution on NCDs calls for reducing smoking by a third by 2025, decreasing hazardous alcohol drinking, and halting the increase in obesity.
