Sentence examples for hit a standstill from inspiring English sources

In many ways, I hit a standstill at that point.

Political reform has hit a standstill, and the regime's human rights record has regressed.

AS apartment prices plunge and sales hit a standstill, real estate agents may be giving bankers a run for their money as the city's most maligned profession.

Heston may be one of the world's most creative and groundbreaking chefs, but in television terms he hit a standstill long ago because he has become a flatscreen one-trick wonder: someone who shouts: "Look at me" as he disguises one food to look like another.

According to Locke, the discussion eventually hit a standstill, at which point it was agreed that in order to settle the issue at hand it would first be necessary to, as Locke puts it, "examine our own Abilities, and see, what Objects our Understandings were, or were not fitted to deal with" (Locke 1700, 7).

We decided to hop out of the cab a few blocks away from Vanak Square just as it hit a standstill after inching along Tehran's evening traffic.

BRENDAN FRASER SAYS HE WAS GROPED BY FORMER GOLDEN GLOBES BOSS And that it's partially to blame for his career hitting a standstill.

A simple, "Man, I wouldn't want to be in Boehner's shoes" can keep the conversation from hitting a standstill.

A Unesco report released last month warned that efforts to reduce the number of children out of school has hit a "virtual standstill".

Work on Versailles, which began 12 years ago, hit a three-year standstill starting in 2009 because of economic pressures on David Siegel's timeshare and real estate empires.

While other hitters use movement to generate power, Piazza often seems to hit from a standstill.