Sentence examples for nervous standstill from inspiring English sources

A city of 18m people came to a nervous standstill for the Tiger of Mumbai.His was a life, he said, that no astrologer had predicted.

Don't be nervous, standstill and be confident, let the audience feel your presence.

The episode brought the capital to a standstill, with nervous soldiers blocking off streets and crowds gathering in the prison neighborhood.

I was not surprised to learn that the canine actor playing Toto was possessed of a star's temperament, and even, at one point in the shooting, brought things to a standstill by staging a nervous breakdown.

A debt standstill by Dubai World, a state-backed property venture in the Middle East, made bond investors more nervous about sovereign risk.

It's standstill traffic.

Prices are at a standstill.

Cambodia is at a standstill.

Business is at a standstill.

Traffic came to a standstill.

We're at a standstill.