Sentence examples for standstill it from inspiring English sources

From a standstill, it's difficult to coast the Racer board up to its speed.

It is not just that activity has come to a standstill; it is that events in Ukraine are having a depressing impact on confidence, particularly in Germany.

Given the global standstill, it is more important than ever to show that change is possible locally through cross-sectoral collaboration.

With more characters onstage than in any previous scene, and with the action moving to a standstill, it seemed the lead was being taken by the orchestra, playing music as sweeping and rapturous as "La Mer".

And hours before it requested a standstill, it said it had raised another $5 billion from two Abu Dhabi banks, although only a portion of that was available immediately.These bail-out funds flow to the Dubai Financial Support Fund, a committee which is overseeing the restructuring of Dubai's indebted companies.

In 1988 a Cornell graduate student brought much of the Internet to a standstill — it was composed of about 50,000 computers at the time — when he unleashed a program known as a worm that was intended to live in the network as a bit of digital graffiti — in effect, the cyber-equivalent of writing "Kilroy was here".

On the road to democracy, progress is always preferable to a standstill," it says.

When CryptoKitties, a seemingly useless game for breeding, buying and selling virtual cats, can bring the world's most promising blockchain network to a standstill, it's clear we still have a long way to go before this technology is ready for major, real world applications.