7 sentences with 'halt'
Example sentences and phrases with the word halt and other words derived from it.
• « Henry Ford's historic first ride came to a humiliating halt at about 2 a.m., when the quad broke down in front of the Cadillac Hotel and a group of revelers came out to taunt Henry and Jim Bishop. »
• « The political order of Europe (Russia, as usual, was an exception) and the United States during the 1920s was beset by strife and conflict, but as the economies of the West struggled to recover from World War I, there was at least some economic growth. That growth came to a halt in 1929 with the advent of the Great Depression. »
• « The incredible economic boom of the post-war decades came to an abrupt halt in the early 1970s, when OPEC, the international consortium of oil-producing nations, instituted an oil embargo in protest at Western support for Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. »
• « Gas prices soared, and the incredible post-war economic growth simply ground to a halt, never to regain the momentum it had between 1945 and 1973. »
• « In an effort to halt this trend of environmental degradation, the Cousteau Society - with the advice of authorities in ethics, science and law - has initiated a global petition to establish a Bill of Rights for Future Generations. »
• « Without computers, human civilisation would grind to a screeching halt and the social structures on which it rests would crumble like dynamited masonry. Civilisation would not stop falling until wars, famine and disease brought the population down to a figure low enough to warrant a simple, i.e. non-computerised, world. »