Sentence examples for instruments to stop from inspiring English sources

"We do not have the tools and instruments to stop big companies buying land.

"Every time Beijing tries to use legal instruments to stop Hong Kong people seeking democracy, the opposite will happen.

Has she not learnt that any attempt to use parliamentary instruments to stop people having sex has mildly less chance of success than a law against rain?

"There are legal instruments to stop this, and there is a government that is prepared to use them," said Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria of Rajoy's ruling Popular Party.

He loathed the idea of incarceration in a mental facility, a fate he called "worse than death," and insisted during the 10-week trial that his fertilizer bomb and machine gun were necessary instruments to stop what he viewed as a creeping Muslim takeover of Europe.

"We need more regulation, but we must not use the state as an instrument to stop innovation in the markets," he said.

I read an interview with Tom Waits, around the time of his album "Rain Dogs," in which he talked about how you come to a point on an instrument where you have to stop playing it and find another instrument that you don't know what you're doing with.

But last week, militia gunmen invaded the store, destroying one of his instruments and ordering him to stop teaching.

The risk, he said, was that they would take the hostages to a remote part of the desert and then negotiate for ransoms or prisoner exchanges, "and they used the bluntest of instruments, which was air power, to stop those cars".

One owner said he was driving and saw "smoke coming from underneath the instrument panel," which prompted him to stop on the side of the road.

Previously to change the sound of an instrument, or to jump from one sound to another, recordings used to stop playing the instrument and the drums at that point.