Sentence examples for stop pedestrian from inspiring English sources

Until the mayor and the police and transportation commissioners declare zero tolerance for this lethal, illegal activity, all other safety measures will do relatively little to stop pedestrian deaths and injuries.

An encounter with the police, who stop pedestrians and motorists on little or no pretext, is most often resolved with an unofficial "fine".

The Buildings Department said the contractor did not abide by the requirement to stop pedestrians from walking below the crane as it lifted the materials.

The overwhelming pressure on officers to write summonses, make arrests, stop pedestrians and motorists with little or no justification, and downgrade crime reports reflects the deterioration of effective management under Raymond W. Kelly, the longest-serving police commissioner in the city's history.

Without "reasonable suspicion," she explains, police officers are not allowed to stop pedestrians on the street.

Others quickly blocked intersections and stopped pedestrians from crossing.

What was the difference between stopping pedestrians and stopping cars? the justice wanted to know.

The process of stopping pedestrians and bus riders is portrayed as uncomfortable for both sides.

At first it was just a noise, a rumble and a roar that brought terrified residents to their windows and stopped pedestrians cold.

THROUGH war and depression, in good times and bad, the windows of New York's major department stores have stopped pedestrians with elaborate holiday scenes.

"There is no basis for assuming that the racial distribution of stopped pedestrians will resemble the racial distribution of the local criminal population if the people stopped are not criminals," Scheindlin wrote.