Sentence examples for stopped advancing from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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).

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

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.

Most seem to cling to a hope that the seas will stop advancing someday and that their children, and children's children, will remain.

Dr. Crenshaw and his colleagues programmed the rib spreader's onboard computer to stop advancing it within a quarter of a second after sensing one of these pops.

Putin called on Russian-backed insurgents in the east to stop advancing, and urged Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the region.