Sentence examples for stopped a train from inspiring English sources

BANGKOK -- Anti-government demonstrators stopped a train carrying military vehicles in northeastern Thailand, underlining the impunity of the country's red-shirt protest movement and the Thai government's weakening control of the populous hinterland.

A gang of 15 men from across London's underworld stopped a train by turning the signal red, brutally coshed the driver and made off with £2.6m (then $7.3m) in cash from the mail cars.

On Thursday, antigovernment demonstrators in the northeast stopped a train carrying military vehicles, underlining the impunity of the protest movement and the government's weakening control of the populous hinterland.

NEW DELHI – Maoist rebels in one of India's poorest states on Thursday stopped a train crammed with 1,500 passengers and killed a soldier and a passenger and injured at least one other person before melting back into the forest, an official said.

That time he stopped a train dead in its tracks in Spider-Man 2. And finally that awkward ass strut down a New York city sidewalk ( Spider-Man 3), to which he says, "we're not going to talk about that".

Stopping a train pulling a hundred cars at 80kph can require 2km of track.

Like a bus, although it's more satisfying to stop a train, I imagine.

In Ciñera, the miners blocked another rail track used for cargo, temporarily stopping a train carrying steel.

That seems to be a good part of the attraction for Paul, stopping a train with his hand.

Stopping a train can take so long that locomotive-operators, also known as engineers, often have time to contemplate their fate before an impact.

Indeed, while it might make sense that stopping a train between stations is not the best way to get help, judgment is often clouded in an emergency.