Sentence examples for halted the progress from inspiring English sources

Although the world recession and its brief impact in Brazil temporarily halted the progress, it did not reverse it.

"For the first time in nearly a decade, we have halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear programme, and key parts of the programme will be rolled back".

"Right now we've halted the progress of the obesity epidemic," said Dr. William H. Dietz, director of the division of nutrition, physical activity and obesity at the disease control centers.

The reformers were handicapped by a lack of money and skilled men, and they were opposed by traditionalists who argued that the reformers were destroying the empire's fundamental Islamic character and who often halted the progress of reform.

And it is American diplomacy, backed by pressure, that has halted the progress of Iran's nuclear program – and rolled parts of that program back – for the very first time in a decade.

Before Obama, the prime exponents of the pragmatic approach to foreign policy were George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, his national-security adviser, who in the spring of 1991 halted the progress of U.S. forces well before they reached Baghdad, leaving the the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, who had risen up in revolt, to the not-so-tender mercies of Saddam Hussein.

Periyar explained that Hindi would not only halt the progress of Tamilians, but would completely destroy their culture and nullify the progressive ideas that had been successfully inculcated through Tamil in the recent decades.

"We shouldn't halt the progress of science.

The current treatment of leprosy is extremely effective, halting the progress of the disease.

"The triumph of the conservative legal revolution is halting the progress of the liberal one".

If the goal was to halt the progress of the nuclear program, the policy's efficacy is less clear.