An invasion of Iraq would bring that process to a grinding halt.

This has brought transport in affected areas almost to a grinding halt.

Economic performance has been horrible for two decades the system is grinding to a halt.

Germany's vital small and medium size businesses the famous mittelstand has not only lost its dynamism, but investment in this sector is grinding to a halt.

Others traveled daily to mills that continued grinding.

The moral and strategic vision of the 1990 s has exhausted itself and come to a grinding halt after the shock of the Russo Georgian war and the recent Ukrainian election.

The moral and strategic vision of the 1990 s has exhausted itself and come to a grinding halt after the shock of the Russo Georgian war and the recent Ukrainian election.

What can halt this?

Halt! Who goes there!

Here's a step by step that shows grinding hamburger.

Moreover, they argue that the cost of any increase in required equity capital would simply be passed on to borrowers in the form of higher interest rates, bringing economic growth to a grinding halt.

Military occupation saps dignity, and grinding poverty and economic disarray sap hope.

Military occupation saps dignity, and grinding poverty and economic disarray sap hope.

Yes, the country is rife with human rights abuses and grinding poverty.

For example, the adaptation of horses' teeth to the grinding of grass.

That decline will be difficult to halt.

Policy making, I am sure, would suddenly halt.

Can anything halt this swing of the pendulum?

The snow brought public transport to a halt.

The school will halt all large scale outdoor activities.

The blue sports car came to a screeching halt.

This unsustainable process came to a crashing halt in 2008.

You have to probably stop. Maybe not come to a grinding halt, but you've got to sort of find that mouse. Then you find the mouse, and you're going to have to wiggle it a little bit to see where the cursor is on the screen.

Tom stomped on the brake pedal and screeched to a halt.

Grinding Stone is the 1973 debut album by Gary Moore, released under the The Gary Moore Band moniker.

One danger of the recent setbacks is a halt to EU enlargement.

Global civil society has developed instruments to halt consumption that produces harm.

Those who would seek to halt the bloodshed have no good options.

(Unfortunately, this did not halt the country s subsequent withdrawal from the NPT.)

With energy revenues screeching to a halt, Putin s regime will lose popularity.

Global civil society has developed instruments to halt consumption that produces harm.

The car came to a halt and the man fled on foot.

At the ethics committee, a temporary halt to cloning experiments was decided.

Worldwide, more than a billion women confront grinding and overt gender discrimination in education, nutrition, health care, and salaries.

Sustained strikes by these groups would bring the country s economy to a halt.

However, central government authorities have done little to halt intimidation of Linyi s villagers.

How can the Middle East halt this downward spiral of despair and rage?

Only bold policies can halt Europe s slide toward secular stagnation and nationalist populism.

When smoke like this comes to Beijing and Shanghai, they'll halt all teaching.

The remittances of Italian seasonal laborers in Argentina prevented backward rural villages in southern Italy from slipping into grinding poverty.

But macroeconomic reform came to a screeching halt after Koizumi stepped down in 2006.

But has Earth Hour actually done anything to halt or even slow global warming?

But has Earth Hour actually done anything to halt  or even slow  global warming?

The traffic in the Kathmandu Valley came to a halt due to the demonstrations.

Nevertheless, Operation Triton has been unable to halt the influx of refugees to Europe.