The US president and his team also made a brief stop at Shwedagon Pagoda, the Rangoon landmark that has been at the heart of many key moments in the country's history.
After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre.
Bush's only foray into foreign territory during the presidential campaign was a brief stop at a Mexican border town, where he stood alongside outgoing Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and pledged to broaden trade with Latin America.
And rather than making a brief stop in a different port each day, The World will follow a more leisurely itinerary, visiting Cannes for the film festival, cruising down to Rio for the carnival and so on.
The agency ordered a brief ground stop at Boston's Logan airport but it did not last long.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Islamabad on the morning of 15 August, after a flight from New York and a brief overnight stop in Dubai.
For me it was a brief train stop on the main line between Glasgow and London or a name on a signpost as you passed it on the A74 dual carriageway south towards the border.
Reno described it as "a brief, temporary stop, " but justices wondered about the reasonableness, for example, of ordering all passengers off a bus.
The most sensitive stop will be a brief visit to Santa Sofia, which was first a Christian basilica, then a mosque, and today is a secular museum.
Even though it's still in the early phases of beta-testing, we were able to stop by the Moog Music factory for a closer look and a brief glimpse of the gear in action ahead of its appearance at Moogfest.
After a brief stay in Adelaide, I headed to Auckland, New Zealand for the final stop on my trip.
The fights are fierce but brief: the referee will step in and stop the bout quickly when a combatant is pinned down and taking blow after blow to the head.
"When we say stop, question and frisk, we're not talking about a brief inconvenience on the way to work or school, " said Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the lead attorney on the case.
There is a two- to three-second hiatus before it lands and explodes, and in that brief time people stop and listen - waiting to hear where it lands, hoping it is somewhere else.
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