Sentence examples for when I was stopped from inspiring English sources

There was one time in college when I was stopped, justly, for driving while intoxicated, which I pleaded down to a speeding ticket and which filled me with a shame I never forgot.

I brought these proceedings because I knew that there was something wrong when I was stopped from doing voluntary work in a local museum and instead forced to work for Poundland for free.

I had barely returned to Italy when I was stopped by a motorcycle cop for, I think, crossing imperceptibly over a median white line in the middle of a curve somewhere near Poggibonsi, between Florence and Siena.

I was all set to announce my candidacy for mayor of my town ("Narayanan Subramania for mayor of Sleepy Hollow" -- it had a nice ring to it) when I was stopped cold in my tracks by a campaign aide who brought to my attention Jeff Greenfield's June 6 Op-Ed article about how the names of candidates are getting shorter and shorter.

Only recently split by civil war from Eritrea, its neighbor to the north, Ethiopia's mountainous northern border is a "very tricky area," says Abdulla. "I hadn't gone that far when I was stopped by six armed guards.

So there I was flying back to San Francisco after the Holidays, flipping through the United Hemispheres magazine to better understand my awesome Snack Box options, when I was stopped by an animated drawing of Twitter founder Evan Williams and an accompanying Q&A for joe-plane-traveler about the popular site.

Will I have to put special markings on the shoes I sell into the non-EU north when I am stopped by customs officers in the near future?

When I walk into a room, when I'm stopped by the police, when I go in for a home loan, no one knows or cares that I'm half-Greek, a quarter Irish, and a quarter German.

"I was stopped when I was in my taxi with four passengers.

"I just have trouble when it's stopped; it's so heavy, I can't hold it up.

When I was broke, I stopped and worked.