Sentence examples for stopped advances from inspiring English sources

A day after a senior general offered an emphatic defence of the air campaign that has not stopped advances by Islamic State militants, the US military said it and its allies had carried out another 14 strikes in Iraq and seven in Syria.

On the other hand, you'd save an awful lot if sea levels stopped rising, ice caps stopped melting and deserts stopped advancing.

The US-backed Kurds, meanwhile, have stopped advancing, their ranks thinned by the defection of dozens of Arab fighters who had reluctantly allied with them.

Rebel forces have massed on the outskirts of Bani Walid, but have stopped advancing during a unilateral cease-fire declared by the rebels for the three-day Id al-Fitr holiday.

But many users woke up to a shock this morning when their familiar vertical swipe stopped advancing the main feed.

The slide really started more than three decades ago with so-called "tax revolts" by a middle class whose earnings had stopped advancing even though the economy continued to grow.

Following calcium uncaging, the cell stopped advancing; when the motility resumed, it often took a new direction (open arrow, Fig. 1F; see Movie S2) that differed from the original one (dashed arrow).

The Croatian Army (HV) and Croatian police began laying land mines in late 1991, relying heavily on them to stop advances by the JNA and the Army of the RSK (ARSK) until early 1992.

My son stops where he is, because he thinks I'm telling him that he should stop advancing toward me.

However, he also instructed his family to stop advanced life support in the event of a terminal prognosis.

That said, rebel commanders have previously broken promises to stop advancing in their attempts to overthrow President Bozize, who came to power in a 2003 rebellion.