Sentence examples for standstill progress from inspiring English sources
After decades of standstill, progress in understanding the biology of melanomas has resulted in powerful targeted therapies with impact on progression-free and overall survival.
"This bill represents an effort not only to extend the facility's operation — as have the other unwarranted legislative restrictions on transfers — but to bring to a standstill the substantial progress the administration has made in safely and securely reducing the facility's population," the OMB said.
I can no longer work, because of fatigue and other physical reasons and sometimes it does feel like life is at a standstill, while my friends progress in careers and family life.
A more serious problem is that he still doesn't have gas and hot water, and a feud between the plumber and the landlord has progress at a standstill.
He said the "outright, sceptical reluctance" by some to engage with these issues had often slowed progress "to a standstill".
As even more severe cuts are threatened, the athletic-a-thons are becoming the lifeblood of these organizations, the difference between tangible progress and a standstill or even retreat.
The exodus of qualified people brings economic, cultural and social progress to a standstill: you don't invest your money, you stop publishing books and, if you are under oppression, you can't teach; if you can't criticize there won't be any innovation, no exchange of ideas.
The checkpoints and blockades are the most visible sign of the restrictions, which have brought economic progress to a virtual standstill in the West Bank and made everyday life difficult for those who live here.
Progress soon came to a standstill.
We've been duped into believing that without outrageous costs and profits, medical progress would grind to a standstill.
