Sentence examples for halting hand from inspiring English sources

"When a child who never spoke up raises a halting hand, when a kid's face lights up and says, 'I get it!' -- it's a kind of immortality".

Then she learned about Miami-Dade County halting its hand recount.

In one respect, Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion supporting halting the hand count of votes in Florida is correct: discovering after the completion of the vote count that Vice President Al Gore had received more votes than Gov. George W. Bush would do "irreparable harm" to the claim that Mr. Bush won Florida and an electoral-vote majority.

'Mr Rilke.' I halted, my hand resting on the door jamb.

Following is the text of the ruling yesterday by the United States Supreme Court to halt the hand recount in Florida and set Monday morning for arguments.

Mr. Engler dismissed any suggestion that Mr. Bush's authority would be undercut if he took office through a judicial ruling that permanently halted the hand recount.

I almost told him what was going on, right then and there, but something held me back: the same impulse that had halted my hand in front of the superintendent's door.

The federal Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit rejected a request by the Bush camp to halt the hand counts, leaving that issue to the Florida courts, at least for now.

As abruptly as the world seemed to change at 4 p.m. on Friday, it did so again at 2 45 p.m. today when the United States Supreme Court halted the hand count that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered.

Those sharply different views will define the case as the Republicans, after their first-round loss today, suggested they might begin a climb up the federal court ladder as they try to find judges willing to halt the hand recounts of ballots here for Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore.

The hand recount got off to a rocky start when the commission was served with a complaint filed that morning in Miami's U.S. Southern District Court by the Bush campaign, which sought to halt the hand count on the grounds that it was "unconstitutional".