Sentence examples for was halted only from inspiring English sources

The move was halted only by a North Korean nuclear test in September.

After increasingly panicked phone calls, the lorry driver was halted only miles before his destination and told to return.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, whose troops had liberated Auschwitz, engaged in a purge of Jews that was halted only by his death in 1953.

The retreat stretched more than a mile and was halted only when an alliance soldier threatened to shoot anyone who went any further.

An early jink and jive out of defence raised the flag, and another inside dash was halted only by the combined forces of David Skrela and Raphaël Ibanez.

The parasitic state had to intervene a second time: the run was halted only when the government guaranteed the depositors' money.

Under Florida law, construction can be halted only if human remains are uncovered.

A trend as well established as this can be halted only by a new social attitude.

Stephen A. Cox of the Marines said in an interview from Guantánamo that the flights of prisoners were being halted only temporarily.

The execution can be halted only if the victim's family pardons the offender, usually in return for blood money.

Disease progression, which leads to loss of neurologic function and death, can be halted only with allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation.