Sentence examples for has only halted from inspiring English sources

Although today's white-hot labour market has dragged ever more poor people into work, it has only halted, rather than reversed, this decades-long decline in low-skilled earning power.

Yet the decision appears a reluctant pause as Shell suggests it would have continued to drill if it had found more oil and gas and it has only halted exploration 'for the foreseeable future'.

The process of downgrading the citizenship of those in Israel has only been halted because elections have been called.

This story is ongoing and unfolding: the Moscow road project has only been halted, and an activist from Evgenia's group, Alexei Dmitriev, is in the hospital this morning after being attacked on his way to work.

"The concern is that the enormous monetary and fiscal stimulus of the past two years has only served to temporarily halt the decline in house prices, and house prices in the UK in particular still look very overvalued relative to average earnings.

Even as many Americans accept illegal immigrants with a wink and a nod, Congress has taken only halting steps to loosen restrictions.

Israel has only accepted a partial halt on settlement construction for 10 months.

Russia itself, with its halting economy and shrinking population, has only limited use for additional domestic energy production.

But everything we did to halt the panic, and all the legislation we've passed, has only strengthened the symbiosis.

He was said to have only a halting command of the language, one of the hindrances that often appeared to make Berti Vogts appear inflexible and unconvincing during his unhappy and unproductive time in charge of the Scotland team.

But the more radical Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups have only offered to halt attacks against civilians in Israel while maintaining their right to strike the Israeli military and Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza.