Sentence examples for halting waves from inspiring English sources

China's reasons to keep the state propped up are obvious, not least halting waves of impoverished hungry refugees streaming over the Yalu River.

The biggest effect, however, has been the unusually brutal storms the Chukchi has been able to muster in the fall, when sea ice would normally halt wave action against the shore.

We didn't stand a chance of halting the waves of selling until central banks started working in unison and governments injected capital into their banking systems in a coordinated way.

If the Tigers were involved, the incident would be the first between the rebels and the government since they agreed last month to resume negotiations, halting a wave of violence that killed more than 100 people in December and revived fears of an all-out civil war.

Members of parliament must address the issue of orphans as a matter of urgency – they have the ability and power to halt the waves of further degradation".

The Chinese government is seeking to halt this wave of self-immolations by detaining Tibetans it accuses of being instigators.

Only rainfall, the lake, and stretches of unbuilt lots on the North Side finally halted the wave of destruction on the morning of October 10.

Only rainfall, the lake, and stretches of unbuilt lots on the North Side finally halted the wave of destruction a full day after it started.

Even the Kenyan military, deployed for the first time to stop antagonists from attacking one another, has been unable to halt the wave of revenge killings.

Regardless, the ruling broke through any temporary legal sandbags put up to halt a wave of state bond money headed into New Jersey's poorest city.

One preventative measure that does appear, for the moment, to be working against criminal gangs organized online: a curfew in Philadelphia meant to halt a wave of flash mobs in the city's center.