Sentence examples for has halted steps from inspiring English sources

A string of Bush administration decisions has halted steps to protect the environment.

As a result, the World Bank has halted its budget support, though it plans to step up other project funding.

Foreign investment has halted.

It seems unlikely this trend has halted.

The concert has halted between two notes.

While some studios have halted once-standard marketing steps like newspaper ads, Lionsgate used all the usual old-media tricks — giving away 80,000 posters, securing almost 50 magazine cover stories, advertising on 3,000 billboards and bus shelters.

Over the smoldering reservations of the Turkish military, which has carried out repeated coups against elected governments, Mr. Erdogan has undertaken halting steps to reconcile with Turkey's own Kurds in what the government has termed "the Kurdish opening".

All of this stems from the run-up to the financial crisis, when no one took steps that could have halted irresponsible lending before it rose to crisis proportions.

But it was clear from a raft of new polls that Trump had halted a summer swoon after taking steps to give a less freewheeling, more polished performance on the stump.

The country has taken halting steps to modernize its one-party system in recent years but has also cracked down on dissent, and its security services have been linked to a series of politically motivated assassinations in neighboring Thailand.

Japan has taken halting steps toward introducing a bidding system for independent power producers, cautiously intruding on to the turf of the nine regional utilities.