Sentence examples for halting important from inspiring English sources

In an ideal world we would not need animal testing, but we could not stop it today without halting important scientific research.

They had halted important trade negotiations with Greece when Greece was under the dictatorial rule of the colonels.

One center is at St . Jude Childrens Research Hospital in Memphis, whose investigator Stacey Schultz-Cherry warned NSABB last month that the pause had halted important flu surveillance studies.

But unless the Democrats pick up something like ten seats in the Senate, the Republicans will still be able to halt important legislation with cloture votes.

"Holidays, illness, a wedding, a death in the family, anything could virtually halt an important round of talks".

Maintaining the capacity to bring things to a screeching halt is important for any party, so all the gang went down to Georgia to rally the troops.

Partisan gridlock has halted many important policies from becoming realities.

Some people have supposed that certain fundamental results in mathematical logic that were discovered during the 1930s by Gödel (first incompleteness theorem) and Turing (the halting problem)—have important consequences for questions about digital computation and intelligent thought.

When the panic was at its worst, and the exchange began to halt trading in important stocks because of a lack of buy orders, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange threatened to halt trading in stock index futures.

As important in halting the spread of the horrible new weapons have been arms-control regimes.

Important but halting progress has been achieved in all these areas, and Mr. Zhu has said he is especially frustrated by the unresponsiveness of corrupt local officials.