Sentence examples for halted the killing of from inspiring English sources

He renamed the shelter after St. Francis of Assisi, had it scrubbed and halted the killing of healthy animals.

In the US, as reported in late November by the Los Angeles Times, "a federal appeals court halted the killing of sea lions that had been feeding on endangered salmon along the Columbia River, pointing out contradictions in the government's conservation policy that targets the natural predators while allowing fishermen to take many more of the scarce fish".

Thirteen years after NATO bombed Belgrade to halt the killing of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, the poor Balkan country was invited to become a candidate for E.U. membership in March.

Thirteen years after NATO bombed the capital, Belgrade, to halt the killing of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, Serbia's status as a candidate to join the European Union has helped burnish its image.

The United Nations peacekeeping department itself has already been going through a series of inquiries after the world organization failed to stop mass killings in Rwanda and to halt the killing of Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.

Mr. Egeland said that while "one should not be overly optimistic about them agreeing," he did expect the talks to produce some sort of accord that would halt the killing of civilians.

After Thomas Steinbeck, the writer's son, read a Guardian article on how his father's novel had been used in a Texas court to argue for the execution of the mentally retarded, he joined the effort to halt the killing of Mr. Wilson, The Beaumont Enterprise reported.

A hero to Zadar's residents, General Gotovina, 48, has been a fugitive since 2001, when he was indicted by the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague for failing to halt the killing of Serbian civilians in 1995, when Croatia recaptured the territory held by Serbian rebels for four years.

It would halt the killing of countless Syrian civilians per week.

The Palestinians, meanwhile, have expressed grave doubts that Mr. Sharon will stop army incursions into Palestinian areas and halt the killings of suspected Palestinian militants.

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008 almost a decade after Nato went to war to halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanian civilians by Serbian forces trying to crush an insurgency.