Sentence examples for it only halted from inspiring English sources

In 2012, the council's announcement it would be pulping a large quantity of the stock in the UK's largest municipal library prompted a high profile campaign by figures such as Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage and Jeanette Winterson, but it only halted the cull temporarily.

Yet the decision appears a reluctant pause as Shell suggests it would have continued to drill if it had found more oil and gas and it has only halted exploration 'for the foreseeable future'.

It was only halted after the government (eventually) guaranteed all its deposits.

Although today's white-hot labour market has dragged ever more poor people into work, it has only halted, rather than reversed, this decades-long decline in low-skilled earning power.

It was only halted after a vast multi-agency investigation - dubbed Operation Phoenix - was launched with the help of organisations from the Colombian security services to Britain's Border Force.

BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said even if it worked it would only halt a majority of the spill.

Hamas had initially rejected the Israeli offer, saying it would only halt rocket attacks once Israeli troops left Gaza and the displaced were allowed to return home.

Finally, it was recently shown that lisinopril not only halted age-related podocyte loss in a rat model of spontaneous glomerular injury, but even increased the podocyte number compared with age-matched untreated animals [ 97].

Labour, if it's smart, will use the latest shambles to pledge that when it returns to government it will not only halt any further privatisation and outsourcing, but that it will bring back "in-house" functions of the public sector which have been transferred to private companies over the past 20 years.

In this model, the synovial fibrosis was not only halted by administration of IL-1Ra but it was reversed [ 16].

They didn't ask Iraqis in either group what they wanted, though, and they only halted the project after both Sunni leaders and the Iraqi Prime Minister objected to it.