Sentence examples for initiative halted from inspiring English sources

According to a number of accounts available on the Web, at one point during the final leg of the race Balto, on his own initiative, halted his team in the middle of a raging blizzard, rather than move ahead onto an insufficiently thick frozen lake that his musher could not see.

Though raise-the-age legislation failed, two other initiatives halting truancy prosecution and sending juveniles to facilities closer to home passed recently.

This event features three artists who are organizing collectively through the political action committee Downtown for Democracy, as well as participating as members of the artist-run activist initiative, Halt Action Group.

In 2008, his city-wide wifi installation initiative was halted due to change in business strategy by the installing company.

Some of his initiatives were halted before they had got going, such as his 1987 London agreement with King Hussein of Jordan.

CONTROVERSY is already raging around the Bush administration's bold new initiative to halt the flow of illegal substances into the United States for good.

CAIRO — Staking out a new leadership role for Egypt in the shaken landscape of the Arab uprisings, President Mohamed Morsi is reaching out to Iran and other regional powers in an initiative to halt the escalating violence in Syria.

Pakistan is completing work on a large new plutonium production reactor, which will greatly increase its ability to produce a powerful new generation of weapons, but also defies Mr. Obama's initiative to halt the production of weapons-grade material.

Soon after the UN Security Council met in emergency session, the North said it was abandoning the truce with South Korea that ended the Korean war and would attack the South if it searched North Korean ships as part of an American initiative to halt nuclear proliferation.

Fighting has eased in parts of Syria where a Russian-led initoative to halt the country's six-year war took effect from midnight, activists say.

The campaign is part of the ongoing global initiative to halt transmission by the end of the year 2000 and to certify Afghanistan polio-free by 2005.