Sentence examples for nearly ceased from inspiring English sources

Foreign banks, unwilling to pay high taxes, have nearly ceased lending.

But in Mr. Alwash's lifetime, those waters nearly ceased to be.

Debt services took more than half of the country's export earnings, and imports nearly ceased for lack of foreign exchange.

As some of our best fiction writers have grasped, in this atmosphere of concealment and masquerade, clothes have very nearly ceased to be markers of identity.

The practice had nearly ceased in recent years, but legal experts say that since Sept. 11, the government has shown a desire to resume it.

While "Death of a Salesman" has consolidated its prestige as an exposure of middle-class delusions, the American middle class — as a social reality and a set of admirable values — has nearly ceased to exist.

Most burrowing occurs during the summer months, and aboveground activity nearly ceases in winter.

Moviemaking would continue apace, but the production of new television shows — buffeted by soaring costs and industry consolidation — would nearly cease.

When it became apparent that the eastern hemlock might nearly cease to exist, Blozan and his partners founded the Tsuga Search Project, an effort to identify and measure the world's tallest and largest eastern hemlocks before they were gone.

Drought-resistant crops, such as sorghum, are able to reduce transpiration (emission of moisture) and may nearly cease growing during periods of moisture shortage, resuming growth when conditions again become favourable.

For reservoirs with extensive carbonate cementation, burial dissolution is especially weak in reservoirs with abundant calcite, and chemical reactions nearly cease after extensive calcite cementation.