Sentence examples for stop descending from inspiring English sources

To stabilize mountain streambeds and stop descending rocks even before they reach the debris basins, numerous crib structures (barriers made of concrete slats) have been emplaced in high canyons — the idea being to convert plunging streams into boulder staircases, and hypothetically cause erosion to work against itself.

"One prominent architect suggested that you might have to lop 20 stories off the top of the 58-story building to make it light enough so that it will stop descending into the landfill," former Mayor Willie Brown wrote in his weekly Chronicle column.

The challenge now is to stop it descending into a feast for lawyers and claim farms.

Jerry Mitchell's production and Peter McKintosh's sets and costumes also usher us into a world of impossible glamour tinged with an element of self-mockery that stops the show descending into kitsch.

The speech he gave that day is remembered now as the beginning of a great healing process that stopped South Africa descending into civil war.

What stopped South Africa descending into civil war after the assassination was down to a combination of factors.

He wanted every visitor to stop and descend into the memorial, and so he included an underground museum that will contain relics of the Trade center.

And as the driver rows us on, a blind man misses his stop and descends in silence into a night of unfamiliar dreams.

If the Palestinian president is to stop the situation descending into total anarchy, he will have to act fast.

After Lod's eighth murder this year, Mr Netanyahu said he would stop the city descending into Israel's "wild west".

Russian coastguards stormed the boat after activists attempted to climb aboard the rig to stop its operations, descending from helicopters on ropes and rounding up the activists with knives and guns.