Sentence examples for quickly halted from inspiring English sources

Said momentum is quickly halted when Nyanga turns it over.

That same year, the commission tried a pilot program of Taxi TV but quickly halted it.

But he quickly halted it after his sister Lisa worried that someone fat would portray her.

The case was briefly raised in the House of Commons, though the Speaker, Michael Martin, quickly halted questions.

Last October, efforts by the Chicago protesters to stay overnight in Grant Park, the city's front lawn beside Lake Michigan, were quickly halted with about 300 arrests.

The officious supervisor bloke quickly halted his progress and confiscated the flag, to a huge cheer from the butchers, pirates and melonheads in the crowd.

He commended Toyota for quickly halting sales of the GX 460, in contrast to the agency's efforts to fine Toyota at least $16.4 million for taking too long late last year to recall vehicles with defective accelerator pedals.

Western diplomats agreed with Mr. Singh's assessment, saying that while Pakistan might have trouble quickly halting violent acts committed by militants already in the Kashmir valley, it could clamp down on the supply of new ones tomorrow.

And this: Have the former generals and other hard-liners who have burrowed into the government finally had enough of reforms, democracy and the star power of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi? Washington, in particular, could quickly halt the easing of its most punitive sanctions — after taking direction from Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, of course.

He was a fast learner, but not fast enough to quickly halt an out-of-control rise in public spending: "For 18 crucial months," writes the historian Keith Middlemass in Power, Competition and the State: the End of the Postwar Era, "the reserves of 1945-74 were dissipated".

The Bush administration must take two steps immediately to quickly halt the unending, enervating credit crisis: shore up the anemic dollar and, for the time being, suspend "marking to market" those new financial instruments, such as packages of subprime mortgages.