With luck, life may now improve for this particular group of the halt and the lame.
The good vicar preaches the faith but he also visits the halt and the lame.
The power failure caused havoc, with whole cities grinding to a halt and transport and other services badly hit.
The pace crescendos for a final charge before the sweat-beaded dancers suddenly halt and the drum falls into silence.
Leicester had to infringe to bring it to a halt and Courrent made no mistake to put the visitors back into the lead.
But the Syrian exchanges came to a rough halt and, with Israel's soldiers safely out of Lebanon, the need is now less pressing.
But they were caught by surprise: the economy screeched to a halt and the resulting damage to the public finances took years to repair.
Many think something must be done to halt and reverse changes to the structure of the lagoon that have reduced the flood protection it provides for the city.
On the UK market, a trade that kicks a stock 5% up or down in a single move will trigger a trading halt and a five minute trading auction.
If the IT staff makes an inappropriate administrative change, it could expose mission-critical workloads to the world at large, or bring the system to a screeching halt and trigger serious downtime.
Analysts credit NAFTA with spurring a 7 percent increase in Mexico's gross domestic product in 2000, but the U.S. economic slowdown has also ground Mexico's economy to a halt and prompted layoffs.
There is, of course, a risk that a rise in rates might instantly trigger a sharp fall on Wall Street, bringing America's economy to a grinding halt and thus harming the world too.
But when some Marines prepared to charge a hill in a training exercise here a few months ago, they were forced to halt and radio the one man who could help them advance: Brian Henen, turtle expert.
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Although the Labour Party is now committed to low level of taxation and welfare spending, it has since 1997 nevertheless used fiscal policy to halt and even slightly reverse the growing inequality that characterised the 18 years of Conservative Government.
All exploration and development grinds to a halt, and several oil independents go under.
Because we believe in human dignity, the world must have more effective means to stabilize regions in turmoil and to halt religious violence and ethnic cleansing.
The air strikes and troop deployments of the past few days have brought a halt, and enabled France to hit the militant groups' rear bases in Gao and Timbuktu.
The expansionary monetary policies pursued by Japan as well as the U.S. and European nations have thus far not been accompanied by fiscal reforms required to halt deficits and the accumulation of debt, or the fundamental structural reforms required in labor and capital markets to restore long term economic growth.
Netanyahu has refused to halt construction and instead calls for an immediate return to negotiations.
She said she wanted to halt treatment and spend the rest of her life at home.
Their last-ditch lawsuit pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals seeks to halt construction and revoke the commission's permit.
New-building approvals ground to a halt, and new construction fell by 40%.
Today, Bank of America took the next step forward, saying it would halt foreclosures and the sale of foreclosed homes in all 50 states.
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Under new Italian rules to curb abusive chanting, the referee is able to halt play and request that an announcement be made inside the stadium.
If Mr Kabila were to call a halt now and talk, he would be giving the government a chance to regroup, rearm--and prolong the agony.
Growth has continued to grind to a halt, and the 17 countries that use the Euro currency eking out a 0.2% rate in the third quarter.
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Back in 2010 it seemed like the economy had ground to a halt, and we haven't reached that this time (although it may feel like it to travellers camped out overnight at Heathrow Airport).
At the previous round of talks in Kazakhstan in February, the world powers tried to push Tehran to halt production and stockpiling of uranium enriched to 20% - a step away from achieving a nuclear weapons capability.
If a spike in interest rates, a surge in commodity prices, or a currency crisis forces the Fed to scale back or stop its money printing, the party could grind to a halt, and the hangover could be nasty.
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