Once traffic reaches a critical density, the cumulative effect of gentle braking rushes back over drivers like a wave and leads to a standstill.
Imagine this (not that you'd likely need to imagine it): Sally claims "The Bible says X". Joan, a non-Christian, finds Sally's claim wrong, and responds, "But doesn't the Bible also say Y?" This happens very frequently, and usually leads to a standstill.
This stigmatizing rhetoric, combined with the pharmaceutical company, Gilead's, unwillingness to advertise the drug to at-risk populations, has led to a virtual standstill in people seeking a prescription for the prevention pill.
This densification may lead to a stop in the flow of patients and a sense of complete standstill at the ED.
He leads me to a standstill with my ankles crossed and, taking my weight in his arms, he rotates me, keeping my feet in one spot.
Nevertheless this sense of urgency should not withhold us from investing in the problem solving quality of our endeavour; quality takes time, fastness from a quality perspective often leads us to a standstill.
In Wallachia, the issue turned into scandal after the pressure for adoption mounted in 1834, and led to a four-year-long standstill, during which a nationalist group in the legislative body began working on its own project for a constitution, proclaiming the Russian protectorate and Ottoman suzerainty to be over, and self-determination with guarantees from all European Powers of the time.
After nationwide strikes brought the country's oil industry to a standstill this spring and led to a coup and countercoup, Venezuela is scrambling to make up for the oil revenue it lost earlier this year by producing more than its quota.
Go back to Boyden, who argues that standstill funding leads to a 4% decline in artistic activity, whereas even a small increase produces more work and higher attendances.
For example, maybe you and a friend haven't spoken in months, and both of you said hurtful things that have led the relationship to come to a standstill.
The standstill of the enterprise led to a political crisis in London between Churchill, the Liberal government's first lord of the Admiralty, who, after earlier doubts, had made himself the foremost spokesman of the Dardanelles operation, and John, Lord Fisher, the first sea lord, who had always expressed doubts about it.
