Sentence examples for standstill ground from inspiring English sources

Moreover, as air travel has ground to a standstill, ground transportation is booming.

But many companies already addressed that issue in their preparations for the millennium, when many feared that power failures and computer malfunctions would bring business to a standstill, ground airlines and freeze automated teller machines.

They are a heart-stopping glimpse of a moment when history came to a standstill; ground zero of what came to be known as "Year Zero" -- the moment when thousands of grim Khmer Rouge soldiers trooped single file into the city, tough, sometimes barefoot young men in black pajamas silently carrying their rifles and grenade launchers, looking at nobody.

The Port Authority and the developer Larry A. Silverstein took one step closer on Monday to a standstill at ground zero, after Mr. Silverstein essentially rejected proposals from the governor for resolving the impasse over building office towers on the 16-acre site.

Inventories have been whittled down largely because new construction ground to a standstill for several years.

Tourism, one of the country's main economic sectors, has almost ground to a standstill as a result of the bloody string of attacks over the past year.

But the project ground to a standstill in 1989 as the real estate market went into free fall, they explained in later court filings.

The construction boom that had made Spain one of Europe's fastest growing economies ground to a standstill in the economic crisis.

Meanwhile, commercial activity ground to a standstill, and news of Spanish atrocities spread to the United States, where yellow journalism (notably in newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst) stirred up anti-Spanish sentiment.

Back then, companies had axed about 20 million Chinese jobs as global trade ground to a standstill, threatening the social stability that China's Communist Party says justifies its control.

"Work has almost ground to a standstill, not only because of lack of access to labs and computers, but because we are all concerned with the news and our friends and neighbors".