Sentence examples for push the pause button from inspiring English sources

Ms. Marra said the idea was to just push the pause button on busy suburban lives.

But Dr. Rosenblatt said the climate of uncertainty suggested that "we should push the pause button for a time".

Now the Heat can claim the streak was never really important and you can all push the pause button on your attention spans until the playoffs.

At the Center for Reflective Parenting, we recommend that during moments of conflict with a child, when the emotional heat is high, parents should "push the pause button" and reflect on what is going on.

Run by recently retired volunteers and structured to build trust and interaction among the 30 or so participants, the workshop sessions are a quick getaway that enable busy people to push the pause button, reflect on their futures and examine difficult-to-discuss topics, said Ronald J. Manheimer, the former director of the center and creator of the eight-year-old program.

Rather than see an opportunity to snap up a bargain, today's value-obsessed American shopper is "just as likely to push the pause button, thinking that if the shop is cutting prices this much now, I might get it even cheaper in a few weeks when the economy gets really bad".

"We immediately pushed the pause button," Mr. Tseng said.

Though the deficit came down somewhat in the past year and is forecast to do so again in the coming year, foreign credit-rating agencies were disappointed that Mr Chidambaram has, in his words, "pushed the pause button" on meeting the deficit-reduction targets imposed by a law passed in 2003.

"It's great that [EPA] pushed the pause button on this study, but we still have concerns," says Richard Wiles of the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit advocacy group.

So there would be strong resistance by owners and NFL executives to pushing the pause button here.

And then a natural disaster or worse hits and it seems like someone pushed the pause button on the economy.