I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bring sth to an end/halt (= especially sth bad )
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It is our resonsibility to discuss how this conflict can be brought to an end.
come to an abrupt end/halt etc
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The bus came to an abrupt halt.
halt the march of time
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She was desperate to halt the march of time upon her face and figure.
pulled to a halt
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The bus pulled to a halt .
screeched to a halt
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The car screeched to a halt .
shuddered to a halt
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The train shuddered to a halt .
stop/halt a decline (= stop it from continuing )
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These measures are intended to halt the decline in fish populations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
abrupt
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We come to an abrupt halt .
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The chase came to an abrupt halt when nine Mexicali police cars stopped the Jetta and its occupants.
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She rushed after him, almost bumping into him as he came to an abrupt halt in the kitchen doorway.
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His death in a 1956 car crash brought his career to an abrupt halt when he was just 26.
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Nutty arrived on time, thudding out of the dusk and pulling to an abrupt halt .
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As all the alarming possibilities ran through her head, she gave a loud gulp and came to an abrupt halt .
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But she suffered a setback when a bout of glandular fever looked like bringing her season to an abrupt halt .
sudden
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At all events the pursuit came to a sudden halt and Henry was able to make good his escape in peace.
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The Glory shuddered to a sudden halt on the grassy slope in front of the Monument and they were thrown forward against their seat-belts.
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As he reached Bert Shorrocks's place Charlie came to a sudden halt .
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They either wobble around on their bikes or screech to a sudden halt .
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The taxi swerved out of the Champs Elysées, down the Avenue George-V and came to a sudden halt on the corner.
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He came to such a sudden halt that the pedestrian behind only just stopped himself bumping into Adam.
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Then it came to a sudden halt and reversed back towards me with a high-pitched whine.
temporary
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In August 1870 Nietzsche's work was brought to a temporary halt by the Franco-Prussian war, which had begun in July.
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Vardon's success in 1903 put a temporary halt to his triumphs.
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The outbreak of war in 1939 brought these pursuits to a temporary halt .
■ VERB
bring
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He was run over by at least twelve wagons before the train was brought to an halt .
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Drink helped slow it down, but too often brought it to a halt .
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But should this bring a halt to lateral thinking?
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So the double-decker's journey was brought to a halt at Holborn Circus.
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A tug on it sounds a buzzer in the driver's cab and brings him to a halt .
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Newfoundland had lost 40,000 jobs and an entire industry was brought to a halt .
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The Grand National had been brought to a halt .
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In August 1870 Nietzsche's work was brought to a temporary halt by the Franco-Prussian war, which had begun in July.
call
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Surely it is time to call a halt to all vehicles on the pavement.
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Here General McDowell called a halt .
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Stubbornness was an early characteristic, as was the way he would call a halt to any admonishment laid down by Mud.
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Objectives of this kind threaten to impoverish the nation and will cause the electorate to call a halt .
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But I believe it is better to call a halt now at a point when the option to renew contracts has arisen.
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She wanted desperately to call a halt to it, to stamp it out for ever.
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With one part of her bemused and disorientated mind she knew that she must call a halt - right now!
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Notice that the bell and not the referee calling a halt is the deciding factor here.
come
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We smashed through it and came to a halt , a tangle of wire wrapped around the hood.
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In the absence of sunlight, solar heating of the surface comes to a halt .
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At all events the pursuit came to a sudden halt and Henry was able to make good his escape in peace.
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But once adaptation to the new conditions had been achieved, Darwin assumed that evolution would come to a halt .
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Sighing, he came to a halt and leaned back against the hedge they were passing.
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But this fantastic procedure may soon come to a halt .
draw
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The taxi drew to a halt where a purple awning reached out to the edge of the pavement.
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The coach drew to a jerky halt near the curbside.
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The convoy drew to a halt in front of the hotel.
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The coach had drawn to a halt outside the Theater an der Wien.
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She stood there while it drew to a halt .
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The car drew to a halt alongside the front door, and an instant later the driver's door swung open.
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She turned as the car drew to a halt .
grind
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Treasury yield drops However, the rally in U. S. Treasuries ground to a halt .
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It seemed as though things had ground to a halt in there.
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When the Meuse river flooded in 1995, the factory ground to a halt .
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The tiny pens, scrawling in palsied traces on endless white ribbons of paper, slowly ground to a halt .
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Instead of finding sudden problems you might find that progress slowly grinds to a halt .
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He is extremely serious, speaks slowly-almost grinding to a complete halt at times-and is not exactly the happy optimist.
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The incident occurred on lap 50, by which time Mansell had already ground to a halt with no gears.
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Business ground to a halt throughout much of the Northeast, South and Midwest.
pull
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Nutty arrived on time, thudding out of the dusk and pulling to an abrupt halt .
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The bus arrived, pulling to a halt in a swirl of dust and exhaust.
screech
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A police car emerged from the other alleyway and screeched to a halt ten yards in front of Whitlock, blocking his shot.
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When he went to a doctor, he was diagnosed with leukemia, and everything came to a screeching halt .
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Ron had pounced from his car, screeching to a halt ten yards ahead of them.
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All of which comes to a screeching halt when Capt.
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Not ten minutes had elapsed when the first van arrived and not eleven when the second screeched to a halt .
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He was on his second initiation raid when Geronimo was captured and it all came to a screeching halt .
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She was walking with a friend, when she heard a car screech to a halt behind her.
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The driver slammed on the brakes; the Jeep screeched to a halt .
shudder
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It burst out of the tunnel in a gale of hot air and shuddered to a halt .
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Two blue carriages shudder to a halt beside me, and the train doors open.
skid
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It skidded to a halt immediately and rapidly looked away, avoiding the man's gaze.
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It skidded to a halt just inside the edge.
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He dragged her into the living-room and flung her across it to skid to a halt .
slow
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The limousine was finally slowing to a halt and they scrambled for their shoes.
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Occasionally he slowed to a near halt , provoking Eng to push him to keep choreographing and to perform adequately.
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An up local slows to a halt at the signals on the edge of the woods.
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We slowed almost to a halt .
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Very soon he slowed to a halt , and then moved back, with exaggerated dignity, to join his companions.
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While he was still undecided as to what to do a bus appeared round the corner and slowed to a halt near by.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come to a halt/stop
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Almost at once there was a slight crunch of gravel under wheels as a vehicle came to a halt.
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An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
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As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.
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He rose and led them both down the stone steps, coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door.
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The elevator rose smoothly, then came to a stop.
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The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt.
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The train lurches into movement, then, quickly, comes to a halt.
draw to a halt/stop
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She heard a large vehicle draw to a halt behind her on the main road.
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She stood there while it drew to a halt.
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She turned as the car drew to a halt.
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The car drew to a halt alongside the front door, and an instant later the driver's door swung open.
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The coach had drawn to a halt outside the Theater an der Wien.
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The convoy drew to a halt in front of the hotel.
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The taxi drew to a halt where a purple awning reached out to the edge of the pavement.
grind to a halt
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Production ground to a halt at five of the factories.
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Traffic ground to a halt as we got closer to the accident.
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Business ground to a halt throughout much of the Northeast, South and Midwest.
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But low hydrogen yields and poisoned catalysts soon had these systems grinding to a halt.
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Compare the problems in Glen Nevis where in summer traffic all but grinds to a halt, to see the possible outcome.
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It seemed as though things had ground to a halt in there.
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Offices, factories, industry, communications, transport ... all of it grinding to a halt.
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The co-op went bankrupt during the Great Depression, said Gross, and maintenance slowly ground to a halt.
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The tiny pens, scrawling in palsied traces on endless white ribbons of paper, slowly ground to a halt.
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Treasury yield drops However, the rally in U. S. Treasuries ground to a halt.
stop/halt (dead) in your tracks
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A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks , right in the middle of the pavement.
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An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.
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Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks .
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I stopped dead in my tracks , unsure of what to do next.
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It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
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People stop in their tracks and stare.
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Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.
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The people had stopped in their tracks , women were making their children stand behind them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ana just drifted to a halt , turning without demur as Maggie moved her to face the house.
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Businessmen, who had generally welcomed the initial actions of the administration, now called for a halt .
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Compare the problems in Glen Nevis where in summer traffic all but grinds to a halt , to see the possible outcome.
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He staggered to a halt , peering at the houses.
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He was run over by at least twelve wagons before the train was brought to an halt .
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It burst out of the tunnel in a gale of hot air and shuddered to a halt .
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It went on too long, until its recent shuddering halt .
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The train has again come to a halt .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
temporarily
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Naturally the rest of take-off was temporarily halted while everyone prepared to duck under anything convenient if the bombs exploded.
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The repression which followed temporarily halted the labour movement and dealt the party a heavy blow.
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Forecasts now differed as to whether economic recovery had temporarily halted or whether a double-dip recession had occurred.
■ NOUN
advance
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All this has helped to halt the advance of new tire companies.
attack
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It worked and halted the attack .
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Humanitarian aid would have to be halted if an attack was sanctioned, Mr Boutros-Ghali added.
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Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege.
attempt
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The technique was by Friends of the Earth in an attempt to halt the Wymondham by-pass road scheme in Norfolk.
bid
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Loretta Sanchez of Garden Grove will continue indefinitely after Democrats lost a bid to halt it next week.
decline
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The measures are designed to halt the sharp decline in shark populations caused by overfishing in recent years.
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The Dow Jones Transportation Average halted three days of declines , rising as much as 9. 39 to 1905. 34.
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Despite the urgent need to halt economic decline , neither has a clearly defined policy.
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The main objectives were now to abolish poverty among children and halt the decline in the birth rate.
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Second team bowler Robert Powell is also called up as Builth look to halt their recent decline .
effort
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Bridges were reported to have been blown up and roads to the capital blocked in an effort to halt the march.
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Its key element was a relaxation of the past two years' tight monetary controls in an effort to halt recession.
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More ominously, the effort to halt the nuclear spread could also stall.
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It would also put in jeopardy the global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.
expansion
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It also decides whether the gravity is strong enough to halt the expansion and bring everything back together again.
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If there's enough to close it, there's enough to halt the expansion .
government
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Accordingly, efforts have been made by successive governments to halt the growth in public spending.
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They were hamstrung when the government halted all nuclear plant construction in 1983, leaving them with unfinished power plants.
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The government halted the distribution of petrol and the Committees for the Defence of the Republic began distributing arms.
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Greenpeace campaigners called on the Government to halt the work immediately.
growth
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Accordingly, efforts have been made by successive governments to halt the growth in public spending.
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If not, shortages of the other nutrients, such as nitrogen, could halt the growth benefits of more carbon dioxide.
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This policy halted the previously continuous growth of local authority tenancies and contributed to the overall increase in owner occupancy.
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Although the soil was wet, it contained sufficient salt to halt the growth of bacteria.
march
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Bridges were reported to have been blown up and roads to the capital blocked in an effort to halt the march .
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But not even the most stringent economies could halt the march of the inevitable.
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So what, if anything, is being done to halt the seemingly relentless march of rainforest destruction?
process
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The lack of oxygen halts the burning process half way ... and creates charcoal.
progress
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She had been promoted this far; and Tabachnikov was not going to be the one to halt her progress .
project
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The lawsuit asks a judge to halt the project until environmental issues are sorted out.
sale
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The fresh disclosures will increase the already considerable pressure on the university to halt the sale plan.
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I have halted all pending foreclosure sales until they can be further reviewed for discrimination or inconsistency in program delivery.
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We call on federal agencies to halt the sale , under government auspices, of pornographic materials.
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Clinton is the first president to challenge tobacco companies to halt cigarette sales to teen-agers, Lewis added.
slide
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City have gone four games without a goal and Reid wants to halt the slide .
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The structure that I have suggested is sufficiently robust to halt that slide and ensure that acute care remains free throughout.
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Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table.
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Now it believes it has halted the downward slide following a restructuring and product strategy review over the past year.
spread
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None has succeeded in halting the spread of violence.
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But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.
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More ominously, the effort to halt the nuclear spread could also stall.
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It would also put in jeopardy the global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.
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Such exemplary action would do much to halt the spread of these evil weapons.
track
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An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.
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A third cry made both sides halt in their tracks .
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Nothing less will halt Thadeus in his tracks .
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Rachaela had halted in her tracks .
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Seattle was a fine place for tens of thousands to gather and halt them in their tracks .
violence
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None has succeeded in halting the spread of violence .
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On Sunday, Hamas had issued a statement saying it would halt violence for three months.
work
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She said the fighting had halted virtually all relief work in Mogadishu.
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Construction was halted when excavation work on the baroque square unearthed the ruins of a medieval synagogue destroyed in 1421.
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Greenpeace campaigners called on the Government to halt the work immediately.
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But funding problems have halted work at the site, and it is unclear when it will resume.
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This is the second time in two years that Strathclyde has threatened to halt work on the Ayr Road Route.
■ VERB
fail
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Tories fail to halt pedestrian plan A last-ditch attempt to delay the introduction of pedestrianisation in Darlington town centre was defeated.
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Job fears and the mortgage debt trap are failing to halt the housing slump.
help
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All this has helped to halt the advance of new tire companies.
try
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The alarm went out and environmentalists began to try to halt , if not reverse, the destruction of the remaining park.
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Joseph Parylak, sought a similar order last month, trying to halt the test, but was turned down.
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It's a desperate double setback for boss Graeme Souness as he tries to halt Liverpool's worst start for 38 years.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stop/halt (dead) in your tracks
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A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks , right in the middle of the pavement.
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An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.
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Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks .
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I stopped dead in my tracks , unsure of what to do next.
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It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
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People stop in their tracks and stare.
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Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.
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The people had stopped in their tracks , women were making their children stand behind them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All his efforts had failed to halt the increase in street crime.
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Heavy rain halted five railroad lines in the Tokyo area.
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The government is determined to halt the trade in illegal animal furs.
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The taxi halted at the hotel's front door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Accumulation through dynamic expansion would be halted when the need for more workers drove up wages and eroded profits.
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At length Fand halted, spear held aloft.
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By 1993 the percentage had dropped to 12. 1 percent, and the trend shows no signs of halting.
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By an 8-7 vote, a Senate committee halted the taggant test program.
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On Sept. 17 reports stated that tear gas was used to halt protests at a Mandalay high school.
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The Trade Union March had been halted by police long before they reached the Square.
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There was a statement to be made, a line to be drawn, a trend to be halted.
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We halted under a memorial statue to Frederick the Great.