Sentence examples for war halted from inspiring English sources

In the 18th century Spain's Bourbon rulers managed to stimulate a limited economic revival in the city, but in the 19th century the French invasion, revolutions, and civil war halted such development.

When the war halted touring, Shankar spent seven years studying sitar with Khan in a remote north Indian village, before emerging in the late 1940s and 50s to become one of India's most celebrated musicians.

The decade-long war halted the construction of power facilities.

Fundraising delays and the start of the Civil War halted construction from 1861-1866.

Some exploration, survey, economic study, and design work was done, but the government, in the midst of the Chinese Civil War, halted work in 1947.

From 1756 to 1760, fighting in the French and Indian War (the North American front of the Seven Years' War) halted settlement building.

But the 27-year-old hasn't let the war halt his dreams of partaking in the games. .

The two world wars halted archaeological and paleontological field work on a global scale.

It seemed that with Obama at the helm, we-the-people could stop wars, halt the calving icebergs, turn racism in its tracks, and cure our young so that they might thrive in a vibrant new educational system grounded in the critical thinking skills needed to finally achieve world peace.

World War II halted television development in America, and Farnsworth founded Farnsworth Wood Products, which made ammunition boxes.

The assimilation policy received full official sanction in 1939, but World War II halted its progress.