London has been brought to a standstill by Underground workers' decision to strike over night shifts – but at least most Londoners appear to have kept their sense of humour.
Stefan Simons, a KPN spokesman, said the intended sale of E-Plus precipitated América Móvil's decision to end the "standstill" agreement, adding that América Móvil had not told KPN whether it intended to follow through and make a bid for the Dutch operator.
Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have threatened to embark on an "era of civil disobedience", including bringing the financial district to a standstill, in protest against China's decision to impose strict rules for the election of the territory's next leader in 2017.
A sullen calm has descended on Bamako, with traffic greatly diminished, the economy at a standstill and the government taking few important decisions.
Indeed, some analysts now say that Dubai may have taken its last truly autonomous decision when it declared a six-month "standstill" last month on the $26 billion owed by Dubai World, its struggling flagship conglomerate, a decision that took the Abu Dhabi government as well as Dubai's bankers by surprise.
The name of the Plymouth and west Devon service provider is not being revealed until after a 10-day "standstill period" to allow unsuccessful bidders to challenge the decision, the CCG said.
The pipeline project is at a standstill in this state," Domina said on the day of the decision.
Pam Dempsey, a real estate broker for Bronzeville Properties, said home sales came to a standstill during the Olympics bidding process, as property owners waited for the decision on a site.
The real story, as explained by Linda Greenhouse, a former New York Times reporter who now teaches at Yale Law School, and Reva Siegel, a professor there, is that political conflict over abortion was escalating before the Roe decision, and that state progress on decriminalization had reached a standstill in the face of opposition from the Roman Catholic Church.
In the days leading to the decision, trading in some government debt had come nearly to a standstill, the report said.
