Sentence examples for stopped potential from inspiring English sources

Nalco's privatisation was upset after violent protests stopped potential bidders visiting the company's plants, and there is a risk of similar protests that might deter foreign bidders at HPCL.

Signed to EMI throughout the 1990s with his band, the Auteurs, he released songs with bold titles such as Unsolved Child Murder, got the label to fund his "terrorist-funk" side-project, Baader Meinhof, and stopped potential hits such as The Upper Classes getting radio play thanks to the inclusion of four-letter words beginning with "c".

Terrorism, he says, "is a needle-in-a-haystack problem, and dumping more hay on the stack isn't going to solve [it]." He advocates "going from person to person with targeted warrants".The government claims that information gathered has disrupted plots and stopped potential attacks, though the details remain classified.

Backhoes and bulldozers build berms to stop potential suicide bombers.

That leaves Microsoft in a position once again to use its monopoly power to stop potential challengers.

He shot the horses and the dogs, and he jammed a horsebox against the gate and shot out the tyres, presumably to stop potential good Samaritans from intervening.

http://t.co/oCqra8lvMv pic.twitter.com/jijzTprIk3 November 11 , 201310.00pm GMT The Philippines military has been patrolling to stop potential looting while carrying out its search and rescue and aid missions.

The prime minister is, however, expected to retain the right to stop potential prosecutions for reasons of national security, the grounds chosen by Tony Blair to stop the Serious Fraud Office inquiry into alleged BAE bribes to Saudi Arabia.

The Tamils protesting in front of parliament also think we matter, that the government has financial, diplomatic and military leverage, that we might help to stop potential mass murder in Sri Lanka.

The ministry had contended that it drew the route to leave enough distance and take in the right topographical features to stop potential gunfire from Beit Sourik or to detect the approach of a suicide bomber.

While the president has acknowledged that racial profiling is "wrong," his administration has nonetheless found it appropriate to persist in profiling America's Arab population in an attempt to "identify terrorist threats and stop potential catastrophic attacks".