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Discover LudwigThe phrase "stop developments" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to halting progress or changes in a project, process, or situation. Example: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have decided to stop developments on the current project until further notice."
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"There's always a fight, a local fight, to try to stop developments, especially bordering these important bird areas," Ms. O'Connor said.
In rural towns, farmers are joining fellow community members, environmentalists and, yes, the hippy fringe to stop developments of coal and unconventional gas extraction in their neighbourhood.
And it may be that even if White House officials believe that today, Mr. Obama would still act to stop developments in the Iranian nuclear program or to address some other threatening circumstance if the moment ever arrived.
The strategy sought to create not just a level playing field throughout the EU to stop developments like social dumping, but also to provide a minimal level of protection to workers in terms of the quality of working life (and especially on health and safety).
As Edward Glaeser argues in his new book Triumph of the City, working-class people have largely been squeezed out of the sort of urban neighbourhoods Jacobs defended, and the middle class who now dominate them are too often allowed to stop developments that might enable poorer people to move back in.
He therefore added the plot about a regretful scientist trying to stop developments from ever occurring.
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"It's too easy to say, 'The big bad developers.' There are big bad developers, but you're not supposed to use landmarks to stop development".
"Their objective is to stop development.
How can we stop development from destroying the human race?
"It's not going to stop development totally," he said.
(John Kerry says he would also stop development of any new nuclear weapons).
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