Mark Sedwill, the Permanent Secretary at the Home Office, apologised for the error in police funding calculations that led to the Government halting to the controversial process.
Various fluent Spanish speakers, depending on their political persuasion, describe Mr. Bush's Spanish as halting to conversational, but all give him high marks for trying.
I hear from a close observer of one inland water of the return of the green sandpiper, the massing of little parties of common sandpipers, and of terns halting to feed on their cross-country travels from sea to sea.
The veteran of – presumably – a thousand pitch sessions, and hundreds of media interviews is halting to the point of reticence on the phone when I call up to tell him Under the Skin is the Guardian critics' pick for best film of 2014.
Upon these cells halting to divide and engaging into differentiation, nestin expression will be downregulated [ 113].
But Rupert's performance was so halting to begin with that any News Corp shareholders watching would be forgiven for hoping that a change at the top could not come soon enough.
