The phones would not be answered, and claims processing would halt.
At the Beijing ivory crush, Zhao Shucong, the minister in charge of China's State Forestry Administration, said that the country would "strictly control the ivory trade and processing, until eventually halting commercial processing and the sale of ivory and its products".
A computer virus halted processing of international travelers at U.S. airports for several hours in August 2005.
Concern was heightened last February when Intuit, the maker of TurboTax tax preparation software, temporarily halted processing state returns after a spate of suspicious electronic filings.
The Central American Minors (CAM) in-country refugee processing scheme was halted after the US president's executive order froze the US refugee admissions programme for 120 days, ostensibly to beef up security checks.
Likewise, genes annotated for 'spliceosome assembly' – a ribonucleoprotein apparatus that catalyzes nuclear mRNA splicing – are also down-regulated, implying that both mRNA and protein processing are essentially halted or dramatically slowed during lactation.
Chinese customs officials abruptly halted the processing of paperwork for shipments bound for Japan on Sept. 21.
BAGHDAD — The United States has nearly halted the processing of visas for Iraqi refugees in Syria, leaving thousands of people who fled a war in their homeland marooned in a country in the grip of an increasingly violent insurrection, with little hope of leaving anytime soon.
The courts have since had time to adjust, especially because lenders have halted the processing of thousands of old cases while they work with federal regulators on improving their practices, said Kevin M. Wolfe, the assistant director of the Civil Practice Division of New Jersey's Administrative Office of the Courts.
A landmark U.S. intelligence assessment in 2007 concluded that any secret uranium-processing activities "probably were halted" in 2003 and had not been restarted.
