Sentence examples for standstill for months from inspiring English sources

Over all, economic activity came to a standstill for months, with growth expected to tumble to under 2 percent this year from a robust 7 percent in 2010.

Both the Shanghai and the Shenzhen exchanges have been at a standstill for months, as government officials try to unravel the great weights of worthless stock dumped on them by Chinese companies in the previous rush to come to market.

But peace talks have been at a standstill for 10 months, with both sides reluctant to make concessions on issues like handing over territory and returning refugees.

The opposition leader, Imran Khan, and the religious leader Tahir-ul-Qadri are preparing for a rerun of their 2014 mass protests, which brought the capital Islamabad to a standstill for four months.

It was reported by the Cameroonian Association of Oil Refineries this month that the export of refined products including palm oil from several African nations, including Nigeria and Cameroon, has been "virtually at a standstill" for several months due to a spate of murders and kidnappings committed by Islamic militant group Boko Haram.

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That autumn Babunski and his Chetniks were assigned to the town of Kačanik, where they joined other Serbian forces in fighting a Bulgarian division that they managed to hold to a standstill for nearly a month despite suffering heavy losses.

Conflicts within his fractious cabinet over how to deal with the economic crisis have meanwhile brought his government to a standstill, with the result that for months he has been hounded by the opposition, and even by some of his friends, to resign as premier.

"After the tsunami, people were in shock, the economic activity in the area was pretty much on standstill for the next few months.

Currently the housing market is slowing (to a near standstill) in many locations and properties listed in them are sitting on the market for months.

Best Buy had asked for a standstill of 18 months, and then a one-year standstill.