On Dec. 6, the Landmarks Preservation Commission issued a so-called standstill agreement with Rockrose to suspend demolition of the building for a month while the commission considered taking preliminary steps toward making it a city landmark.
This time last year HMV issued a heavy profits warning ahead of Christmas after trading came to a virtual standstill because of more than two weeks of heavy snowfall.
"Industrial output is at a standstill," said Globes, Israel's leading financial daily, on May 30 as the government issued figures showing a continuing decline since October in manufacturing, construction and consumer spending.
Robbed of this charge, Mitt Romney issued a statement saying the report was "a sad reminder that the economy is in a virtual standstill.
FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank's intervention in bond markets has come nearly to a standstill, bank data indicated Monday, in a sign that policymakers no longer see an urgent need to continue supporting debt issued by Greece, Spain and other European countries.
In Scotland, everyone's spent the last year talking the issues to a standstill.
As Evangelista-Ysasaga sees it, the conversation regarding immigration in the U.S. is, like so many other polarizing issues, at a standstill.
The Dakota project has been at a standstill since December when the Obama administration declined to issue a permit for the final section of the crude oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux's water source.
Conceivably, the SDRM could sanction a standstill on debt payments, as domestic bankruptcy law does, and allow countries that have defaulted to issue new senior debt, as firms in Chapter 11 can.
It fought American liberals to a standstill on issues such as abortion and gay marriage.
