Sentence examples for harsh halt from inspiring English sources
Following that, in September Obama sponsored direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians -- talks that could conceivably meet with some success or simply come to a harsh halt.
Suspension is a harsher step than halting payments and sets up a series of major obstacles to the release of additional funds.
Mr. Tenet ordered a temporary halt to the harshest interrogation methods.
By the second half of 2001, he predicted, Amazon could face a "creditor squeeze," meaning that the companies that supply it with goods might demand harsher payment terms, or even halt shipments.
The law was particularly harsh because of it's halting of some adoptions where orphans had already met their prospective parents.
I can see his point, because although running fast through the forest is idyllic, crunching these willing animals to a halt so often seems woefully harsh.
Baseball officials used the extreme measure of subjecting unsigned Dominican players to DNA tests last year to make certain they were not lying about their ages — a practice they have since halted in the wake of harsh public criticism.
At the Senate Judiciary Committee, senior F.B.I. officials described the bureau's halting efforts in 2002 to protest harsh interrogations being carried out by the military at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and to make the case that traditional rapport-building methods worked far better.
But in a windowless courtroom, a realm of harsh lights, unavoidable questions and real consequences, Jamie Spears' halting testimony conjured a picture of his daughter that lacked the polish of a book and the tawdriness of a supermarket tabloid.
The government had largely halted street protests in July, with a harsh government crackdown that left dozens of marchers dead and thousands in jail.
I worked for two years in the Netherlands during which time I was only a burden upon the Dutch taxpayer for two weeks (during the particularly harsh winter of 1981, when the building industry froze to a halt).
