Sentence examples for moving to stop a from inspiring English sources

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg went further, saying that it appeared to him that the detective "acted correctly" in moving to stop a threat.

With the outcome uncertain, Erdogan moved to stop a slide in the currency ahead of the vote, roiling Turkey's financial markets.

According to Alain Haché, the author of "The Physics of Hockey," the reaction time of good goalies the time it takes to move to stop a shot will be 0.12 to 0.15 seconds, compared with 0.2 seconds for an average person.

Last October, city officials moved to stop an unsanctioned street race known as the Broadway Bomb, citing the "reckless and dangerous" behavior of past skateboarders.

Yet while parts of South Yorkshire still suffer from June's floods, the Environment Agency has moved to stop an outside site offering its flood mapping data in a more usable form.

Despite increasing international pressure, President Bashar Assad still has a firm grip on power and has shown no signs of moving to stop the crackdown on a nearly 8-month-old uprising against his regime.

And Beijing has received new support from Brussels, which has just rescinded the import ban after EU inspectors confirmed that China was moving to stop chloramphenicol use and establish an effective control and detection system for food safety.

Spain's constitutional court has moved to stop the Catalan government making a unilateral declaration of independence by suspending the regional parliament session in which the results of Sunday's referendum were due to be discussed.

Earlier this year, the administration moved to stop what it described as an incipient scandal in the Medicaid program.

Governor Perry did not move to stop the execution, and Mr. Willingham received a lethal injection on Feb. 17, 2004.

In another move to stop a spillover from Kosovo, Washington has urged that the mandate of the United Nations force in Macedonia be extended beyond its cutoff date this fall.