Sentence examples for stopped stone from inspiring English sources

None of this has stopped Stone's critics from hanging him high, especially for his remark that "more often than not, [Australian playwrights] write bad plays".

The great upthrust of the immigrant working class into the middle class after World War II, via the GI Bill, was stopped stone cold by the events of the autumn of 1973, when the October war in the Middle East led to the quadrupling of oil prices virtually overnight and the great inflation set in.

Roadblocks are coming down — to 14 from 42. Gil admires the state-building of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, although he thinks Fayyad is "walking on the edge" because his pledge of nonviolence has not stopped stone-throwing and Molotov cocktails.

The City manager stopped Stones as he strode past to have yet another word regarding tactics and in-game strategy, during what was now a glorified training session.

He couldn't help it if the ruling party, which he served, switched its policy to genocide, nor could he stop stone-cold killers from singing his songs.

From his post in a watchtower overlooking the border, Lt. Barak Twizer looks out at a vista of hostility through newly-reinforced hatches of stainless steel and a 40-foot-high "missile fence" of tightly meshed wire designed to stop stones, rocks, or, in the worst case, shoulder-fired rockets.

7. A man gestures as he urges other protesters to stop stoning a local government building in Tuzla, north of Bosnia's capital Sarajevo, on Feb. 6, 2014.

This partial reprieve, triggered by the call from her children for international pressure to save her life, has shown that if enough of us come together and voice our horror, we may be able to save her life and stop stoning once and for all.

Once the base is leveled out, it is time to line the bottom of the bog garden with a cushion to stop stones rising up and making holes in the liner.

But if you stopped a stone's throw from France and approached a cluster of colourful blocks that rise out of an old industrial site, you would be close to one of the country's best-kept secrets.

The first three involve adding elements to a nuclear agreement that have nothing to do with nuclear issues: end threats against Israel, stop terrorism, cease stoning of women and hanging of gays.