Sentence examples for when he halted from inspiring English sources

But General Mood said that when he halted the work of the monitors, "that in itself was a message".

"We've got a hell of an opportunity," he told his players in a sandpapery voice when he halted practice two days before the game.

It has brought him scorn when he was blamed for caustic work stoppages and ridicule when he halted an All-Star Game.

The justice secretary surprised many of his critics when he halted his predecessor's plans to privatise eight or nine more jails when he came to office.

Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh, who presided at the pretrial hearings, said when he halted them that they would not be resumed until the de fendants had promised in writ ing to behave.

Last month Columbia's new president, Lee Bollinger, prompted criticism when he halted a search for a new dean for the university's Graduate School of Journalism, saying that the school needed to rethink its mission.

Mr. Sutherland, 40, was already on probation for a 2004 drunken-driving arrest when he was halted by the police as he left a Hollywood party at the Area nightclub on Sept. 25.

He had had his own problems with the blah-blah-blah in 1985, when he abruptly halted a long and exhausting championship match in Moscow between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.

In West Des Moines the other evening, he was talking about cutting spending and taxes to an attentive audience when he was halted by the trill of a cellphone.

When Obama took office, he halted these commissions.

Mr. Hagan was dismissed from the group shortly after its annual convention in August, when he refused to halt the border patrols.