Mr. Morris's defense centered on the contention that he had not intended his program to halt the network.
If investigators could better detect what protects one person's mental strengths or chips away at another's, then perhaps they could devise a program to halt or reverse decline and even shore up improvements.
Although the government has cut positions from a program to halt the spread of the brown tree snake, citing rising costs, the Fish and Wildlife Service has not reduced its contribution to the program.
They will try to persuade wealthy nations to drastically increase their aid to developing nations and bolster programs to halt the spread of AIDS and improve education in poor countries.
Economists, social scientists and politicians believed that poverty made people susceptible to communism, and they set out to build programs to halt the spread of this competing ideology by increasing economic growth.
Under his leadership, the city continued to move away from the concept of building huge developments in blighted areas and instead pursued programs to halt decline in still viable neighborhoods and build small-scale residential housing.
The program to halt deportations is limited, hedged by detailed rules and not to be confused with broad immigration reform, which is out of reach at a time when antipathy to the undocumented runs high in Washington and in the states.
As issues of his campaign, Mr. Daniels cited the winning of "reparations for the damages done to Africans by America during slavery;" a "domestic Marshall Plan" to rebuild inner cities; a defense of affirmative action programs; a program to halt the loss of black-owned farmland and a moratorium on prison construction.
Since bTB is of economic importance and because all animals are routinely tested at least once annually in Ireland and some other countries, the presence of genetic variation for bTB susceptibility suggests that bTB susceptibility should be included in a national breeding program to halt possible deterioration in genetic susceptibility to bTB infection.
The program aims to halt the purchase of options on apartments at prime locations in new shopping malls and on remodeled units in apartment blocks.
The agency has also been pursuing a program intended to halt deportations of some illegal immigrants without criminal records, by exercising prosecutorial discretion to close their cases in immigration courts.
