Sentence examples for stopped for weeks from inspiring English sources

Numerous jobseekers who have had their benefits stopped for weeks or months after being told they are not doing enough to find work have told of the hardship of being penalised and have disputed the fairness of the sanctions.

One sequence shows the riverboat stopped for weeks at a port near the Black Sea, each Jewish passenger eating a potato a day while a helmeted Bulgarian guard makes sure no one escapes to shore.

She is one of many former jobcentre workers speaking out with revelations about a "culture" of targets and accelerating pressure on staff to shift people off benefits, (repeatedly denied by the Department for Work and Pensions) often by the overuse of arbitrary and harsh sanctions that mean people's benefits can be stopped for weeks and sometimes months.

But it argues that the cumbersome administration of benefits by jobcentres, coupled with a heavy-handed sanctions system whereby claimants who breach ever-tighter benefit rules have payments stopped for weeks at a time, is a bigger contributor to people going without food.

The participants took combination drug therapy for eight weeks and stopped for two weeks to test the concept, known as structured treatment interruption.

The 5-BrdU injections were then stopped for 3 weeks (mouse age, 13 weeks).

However, anyone who cuts their placement short after more than one week will have their benefits stopped for two weeks.

Antibiotics were then stopped for 2 weeks before the second stage and then resumed again after the second stage for 6 12 weeks after implantation.

"Brooklyn stopped for two weeks.

The actor was taken to the hospital to have his appendix removed, and production stopped for several weeks while he recuperated.

The majority result in benefits being stopped for four weeks, although they can in extreme cases be imposed for three years.