Last week, Myanmar's new leadership unexpectedly halted work on a $3.6 billion dam strongly backed by China, prompting angry criticism from the Chinese government and the state-owned Chinese company that was building it.
After initially continuing its offensive, the government unexpectedly halted operations on March 13, and since then, military chiefs from the two sides have been meeting in Luena, a small town in eastern Angola, hundreds of miles from the capital.
Pskov's small group of Roman Catholics began building the church two years ago, but the regional government unexpectedly halted construction in April, citing discrepancies in its blueprints and other documents.
In late September, Merck unexpectedly halted the trial of its experimental H.I.V. vaccine because it failed in its two main objectives, to prevent infection and to lower the amount of H.I.V. in the blood among those who became infected.
Production on the L.A. wall was supposed to start June 27, but the project was suddenly and unexpectedly halted that morning.
If the execution halts unexpectedly, the process is killed and restarted.
Last year, the U.S. government unexpectedly decided to halt the funding of such studies, asking researchers to pause their work and ordering a review of the risks and benefits—a process that is still ongoing.
The choreography let Katie Brack, Megan Brians, Sally Donaubauer and Anne Lentz zoom ahead, then unexpectedly ground them to a halt.
China announced Thursday that growth in imports had unexpectedly come to a screeching halt in April — rising just 0.3 percent from the same period a year earlier, compared with expectations for an 11 percent increase.
Page B1 CHINA ECONOMY FALTERS China announced that growth in imports had unexpectedly come to a screeching halt in April -- rising just 0.3 percent from the same period a year earlier, compared with expectations for an 11 percent increase.
