But the excited momentum has sputtered to a standstill, tripped up by unrealistic ambitions and technological glitches.
Public schools in Borno are closed, international aid agencies have long since fled and farming has ground to a standstill, pushing up food prices.
Continued negotiations on track to standstill; holding up budget bill: GOP's unrelenting demands to inject unrelated political riders into federal spending bill.
The group plays revolving patterns of minor-key chords at a tempo just above a standstill, then works up to martial climaxes; every so often, a recorded voice intones something like, "The skyline was beautiful on fire, all twisted metal stretching upwards".
"But the reality is, in this highly divided Senate that we have now, even the most basic responsibilities of treaty ratification and judicial confirmations are just at a standstill and take up so much floor time that it keeps the Senate from doing its required policy-making.
Instead, one car after another turned off Flatbush Avenue, which was slushy but passable, and onto our street, where they were all brought to a standstill halfway up the block.
A VFD can be adjusted to produce a steady 150% starting torque from standstill right up to full speed.
During Noantri, traffic comes to a standstill, with Romans queuing up at stall vendors for roasted nuts, candy, toys, watermelon slices and grattachecca, Rome's very own granita.
It would be good to keep this saying in mind if Trump wins " dance when the crowd panics and standstill when they jump up with joy".
As a means for determining the response of a rigid-plastic structure to impact, formulation of the problem as a Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP) through finite element modelling is shown to offer the benefits of a systematic numerical process which is also automatic from start-up to standstill.
