Sentence examples for overall stops from inspiring English sources

But to police officials, the statistics demonstrated the department's steadfast commitment to going after illegal guns, and the drop in gun seizures as a percentage of overall stops indicated the effectiveness of the tactic: criminals, officials believe, are now more likely to leave their guns at home, knowing they may be stopped by the police.

But since these are funded by taxation, it's the net costs and benefits that matter; overall, stopping EU migration would cost public services more in lost tax revenue than it would save in reduced demand.

"They were asked starting in 2009 and 10, 'Have you been, basically the subject of a stop?' We took a look at that as part of the changes we were making as part of the overall stop, question and frisk program.

I often ask myself if it's possible to so dramatically reduce the overall stop and frisk numbers and still produce virtually the same racially skewed rates.

G + C rich genomes have considerably fewer overall stop codons and larger numbers of spurious open reading frames (ORFs).

Following the analysis previously performed by Kabat et al. overall stopping rates or "quit rates" [rates between ex- and ever-smokers] were calculated for smokers with different characteristics, as the number of former smokers divided by the number of ever smokers and multiplied by 100% [ 7].

Other possible effects are brake drag, which results in premature brake wear and decreased fuel economy; or you could inadvertently push both brake and throttle in a panic stop, potentially increasing overall stopping distance significantly.

Defenders typically need a longer reach to poke-check the puck away from the opposition, deflect potential passes from the other team's forwards, and, overall, stop pucks from coming near the net.

A group of workmen in overalls stopped and stared.

One of the young ones hurrying in the door, hanging onto himself through his overalls, stopped short at the sight of her; she told him to use a cubicle.

Overall point to conservatives: stop the demonizing and caricatures, and focus on cleaning your own house.