A vigorous reform movement arose, committed to halting this decline by reasserting the state's influence.
Since then Netanyahu has refused any public commitment to halting settlement building in the city.
Switching from her fluent English to halting, phonetic German, she concluded with a line by the German poet Goethe.
Schurz soon joined the new Republican Party, which pledged itself to halting the expansion of slavery westward.
WHAT two United States agencies recently took steps that together may come close to halting research using chimpanzees?
HOW did the path to halting much of this research begin with anger at a National Institutes of Health decision?
Mr Haider is committed to halting the eastwards expansion of the EU to include former Soviet bloc countries.
Action to address the vulnerability of the ageing population is central to halting the rise in deaths.
There can be no Palestinian statehood without an effective security force committed to halting infiltration and terror.
Israeli officials have consistently made the case that enforcing Mr. Obama's narrow "red line" on Syria is essential to halting the nuclear ambitions of Israel's archenemy, Iran.
None of these efforts, promising and idealistic as they may be, have come close to halting, much less reversing, the pattern of retrenchment.
