Sentence examples for of standstill from inspiring English sources

It is a kind of standstill arrangement.

When the Rockets turned into a team of standstill jump shooters, the Lakers snared the rebounds.

"We need to figure out the relationship between the federal agency and the private foundation so this kind of standstill doesn't happen again," he said.

A 10-minute walk from the heart of the rebuilt downtown area lies one of Four Seasons' latest offerings, part of a blossoming set of international five-star hotels to have opened after a decade of standstill in the city.

Parts of the province had come to the kind of standstill associated with the besieged southern town of Dara'a, he said, where the arrest and torture of 15 schoolchildren for spraying antigovernment graffiti sparked the wave of uprisings.

Against this background, the Lord's exhibition is a bid for a kind of standstill agreement, an effort to move the games beyond decades of chafing toward a new era of respect.

A combination of jobs standstill and lack of momentum in pay therefore makes this the least positive set of UK labour market figures for some considerable time".

One example is the case of economic standstill in terms of growth.

Some centres use short but repetitive periods of circulatory standstill followed by periods of reperfusion, thereby reducing the length of a single ischaemic period and checking for bleedings in the operative field [ 12].

Bond investors worldwide have been jittery since news of the standstill request broke, raising fears of a default on $26bn of Dubai World's debt.

Thai Airways, which usually accounts for more than a quarter of the flights in and out of Suvarnabhumi, put the daily cost of the standstill at more than $14 million.