Sentence examples for were only stopped from inspiring English sources

Their activities were only stopped by British conquest in the early 20th century.

The Taliban captured two local people for not paying their tax and they were only stopped from executing them by the tribal elders," he said.

They were only stopped from doing so by the unprecedented vote against military action in parliament, with MPs undoubtedly influenced by the widespread anti-war sentiment amongst the British public.

As the energy of the incident ions was low, the ions were only stopped within the side of the nanowires which is near the ion incident direction.

The tanks were only stopped by a last-minute European-mediated ceasefire, but the West very nearly found itself dragged into a military confrontation with Russia.

Elsewhere German attacks were only stopped by bombardments from the division's 75 mm artillery guns.

We were only stopping people and questioning them where we had a reasonable suspicion that they were an immigration offender".

"I've been told they were only stopping people who looked Asian or African and not anyone who was white," she said.

Of course, my nephew and his associates were only stopping by on their way to the freshman prom, an event my own generation would have vehemently protested.

We were only stopping for snacks every forty-five minutes or so.

"If the police were only stopping innocent people, you wouldn't see the crime rate going down," she said.