Sentence examples for into a standstill from inspiring English sources

It's more like freezing the whole process into a standstill".

Separately, eBay also announced that it had entered into a standstill agreement with Carl Icahn, currently eBay's largest active shareholder.

Upon learning of the demolition, she said, the commission entered into "a standstill agreement," under which the owner was prohibited from altering the Hoffmann mosaic during the reconstruction.

The agreement also includes a requirement that any prospective bidder must enter into a standstill agreement that lasts for two years before Transatlantic can provide the bidder information about the company.

Avis won the war only to run into a standstill with regulators, allowing Hertz to return to the fray with an offer of $1.91 billion, higher than the $1.55 billion bid by Avis.

Instead, as the New Yorker's investigative reporter Jane Mayer recently said about the Obama administration's attacks: "It's a huge impediment to reporting, and so chilling isn't quite strong enough, it's more like freezing the whole process into a standstill".

They even saw the luxury sedan pop its front wheels into the air at a standstill.

Dr. Witton said: "Most birds take off either by running to pick up speed and jumping into the air before flapping wildly, or if they're small enough, they may simply launch themselves into the air from a standstill.

And it will get there in second gear, which is also a splendid feat, as you can shift this car into second almost from a standstill and just let that big turbo boost pull the car right up to redline.

But the cast was forced to launch into critics' performances from a standstill.

As I continued to sprint, I was staring straight ahead to where my wife should have been, but noticed out of the corner of my eye that as soon as the gelding saw me, he exploded from a standstill into a gallop and was moving, increasingly faster, directly towards me.