Sentence examples for sharp halt from inspiring English sources

The privileged childhood came to a sharp halt with her parents' bankruptcy, and her father's multi sclerosis diagnosis in 1990.

Later, a fruit and veg van came to a sharp halt beneath the projections, the driver craning his neck to read.

This lack of capital for new or continuing projects brings a sharp halt to an intense period in museum building and programming expansion worldwide that began roughly five years ago.

But it seems, at present, unlikely that such a turnaround in public opinion will be swift and sharp enough to halt the process of Brexit entirely.

The fight is between backers of European Union regulations, which are meant to halt sharp drops in the population of wolves and other endangered predators across Europe, and the roughly 7,000 reindeer herders whose livelihoods are threatened by increased attacks on their animals.

"Criss Cross" was especially fruitful, given its sharp intervals and halting syncopations.

William Morrow is being parachuted in to halt a sharp decline of Vodafone's Japanese mobile-phone subscribers (59,000 in January alone).

Beijing has supported a series of market operations to halt the sharp decline, but each one has been criticised for failing to restore market confidence.

The most immediate was to halt a sharp decline in fisheries, because of overfishing and illegal catch, that is threatening food security.

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration scrambled to halt a sharp deterioration in its troubled relationship with Pakistan on Wednesday, offering Pakistani officials multiple apologies for a helicopter strike on a border post that killed three Pakistani soldiers last week.

Shares in J.C. Penney, the beleaguered department store chain, gained 6 percent after it reported same-store sales fell 11.9 percent in the second quarter, during which it reverted to a promotions-heavy strategy to try to halt a sharp sales decline.