Sentence examples for standstill through from inspiring English sources

Bus and car traffic was reported at a standstill through much of the hardest-hit areas.

During some episodes the instruments slither around as if in a contrapuntal free-for-all, or break into frenetic busyness, or bring time to a standstill through hazy, hovering chords.

"Before bringing this nation to a standstill through means of a work stoppage or lockout, we encourage the parties to exhaust all means available to them to settle this dispute," Peter J. Hurtgen, director of the mediation service, said.

Many countries have been brought to their knees as the banking system has been brought to a standstill through fear, causing economies to stagnate and governments to indebt themselves in massive ways.

The prospect for a big breakthrough in economic policy seems low if the two parties battle each other to a standstill through the 2012 presidential election.

Cars inch forwards on gridlocked streets, slowing to a standstill to wait through a fifth or sixth light change before joining the queue beyond.

Airbus, a unit of the military contractor EADS, had requested a standstill on cancellations through the end of the year to work out a new delivery schedule and a financing arrangement under which more of the development costs would be borne by the plane's first European customers: Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey.

Airbus, a unit of the European military contractor E.A.D.S., had requested a standstill on cancellations through the end of the year to work out a new delivery schedule and a financing arrangement under which more of the development costs would be borne by the plane's first European customers: Germany, France, Britain, Spain, Turkey, Belgium and Luxembourg.

3. (C) The Shah Deniz Consortium's commercial negotiations with the three pipeline projects competing for SD2 gas (TAP, Nabucco TGI) are at a standstill until transit through Turkey is solved, and the GOAJ continues a policy of seeking to persuade intermediaries such as the EU, USG and various commercial companies vying for SD2 gas to put pressure on Turkey to provide commercially viable transit.

Noisy yellow-and-black motorized rickshaws wriggle through standstill traffic as pedestrians press past a sacred cow grazing along a sidewalk here and there.

This could be done through a standstill in repayments, extension of maturity, interest-rate cut or, in the most severe cases, the dreaded haircut.Other measures were designed to make this prospect seem even more distant.