Sentence examples for stopped this thing from inspiring English sources

A swift and forceful United States response in late July, when American policy makers first learned of the death squads, he said, "could have stopped this thing in its tracks".

"It's at this point that we stopped this thing, there and then.

I thought it would go away but it persisted and then I started telling other people that I had stopped this thing but it is still coming", (P6, 72 months, 3B).

You'd need a big parachute to stop this thing at a hundred miles an hour.

I run away into the cowshed to stop this thing from happening inside me.

"This is my backyard, Dar," Allison tells him, "I can help stop this thing".

"No one wanted to stop this thing," said one former mortgage analyst at Merrill.

That's why there's no momentum to stop this thing".

So I implore you, please help me stop this thing from getting bigger than it already is.

He recalled, "I said, 'Look, you've got to stop this thing where you're like Encyclopedia Brown.

They're going to have trouble stopping this thing.' " "I think the hardest thing to do in sports is to preserve a lead," Christensen said.