Sentence examples for were instructed to stop from inspiring English sources

If one best friend got ahead of another, they were instructed to stop and wait.

Ticket agencies were instructed to stop selling tickets and to reimburse fans who had already made purchases.

In 1994, the year Mrs. Whitman took office, there were widespread reports of racism within the ranks of the state police, and some troopers had given sworn statements saying they were instructed to stop and search black and Hispanic motorists, without cause, to search for drugs.

Big factories were instructed to stop work, and National Grid, the firm that runs the electricity network, came close to cutting supplies to homes as well.Last year two power stations one nuclear, one coal-fired failed within minutes of eacoal-fired failed blackouts across the country.

Most of the young adult patients were smokers (but not heavy) and were instructed to stop smoking until complete wound healing.

Subjects treated with an oral glucose lowering agent were instructed to stop their medication 2 days before the protocols and to monitor closely their blood glucose.

"I was instructed to stop shooting".

I was instructed to stop.

Several cops remember being instructed to stop arresting looters.

Khan was instructed to stop, and eight more Somali pirates, carrying heavy machine guns and rocket launchers, boarded the ship.

Oliver no longer talks so freely about the environmental critics of the Keystone pipeline; all of Harper's ministers have been instructed to stop making comments that might be construed as interfering in the American presidential election.