This especially harsh winter has forced more than 12 copper mines to slow or halt operations.
However, countries closer to earthquake zones may slow nuclear power development or halt it altogether, he said.
If there are cooling measures, we will account for them, but we won't slow down or halt our investments.
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Roger Ebert argues that piracy will either slow or halt the momentum of digital cinema altogether, comparing it to what is happening with music.
Lord Forsyth interjected to demand an answer on whether the government would push ahead with the bill, or halt its progress, in the absence of one.
Iran denies this and, despite increasingly severe economic sanctions, has shown no sign that it intends to scale back its project or halt its contested uranium enrichment drive.
In a multibillion-dollar gamble, some of the world's biggest drug companies have begun final-stage trials of drugs that aim to slow or halt the progression of the devastating dementia.
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party got the most votes in Israel's national election Tuesday, but a respectable showing by centrists could slow or halt a rightward swing in the government.
Abolishing patents would more or less halt progress in pharmacology, but there is a strong argument for charging different prices for drugs in poor countries.
This can mitigate recent ASP declines or even halt them altogether.
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In any event, the current thrust of German government thinking is that it would be wrong to let a wayward decimal or so halt the euro now that the European Union has agreed on a stability pact to police it.
After a disaster, governments' instinct is to halt or restrict the activity concerned.
And there's no way to halt or reverse the decline of memory and other cognitive abilities once Alzheimer's has been diagnosed.
That could halt or even reverse the recent narrowing of the deficit.
Sturrock himself was either unable, unwilling or unfussed to halt the blaze of rumour and speculation that ultimately fatally undermined his reign.
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With this week's decision, the Supreme Court's current majority, led by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, has confirmed that it is determined to reverse, or at least halt, this trend.
However - as David Cameron pointed out in 2007 - the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major did little to halt or reverse the comprehensive revolution despite having 18 years to do so.
"Since there is no evidence to pin the widespread declines of bee populations on any single factor, a proposed ban on neonicotinoids is unlikely to deliver any benefits that will halt or reverse these declines, " he suggested.
Mr Netanyahu's most hardline coalition partner, the National Religious Party, has been quick to weigh in, warning the prime minister that if there is any halt or suspension of any building, it will walk out of his government.
If, on the other hand, it has gradually dissipated over the aeons, the universe's expansion could eventually slow to a halt, or even go into reverse.
Mr Obama said Israel had discussed important steps to "restrain" settlement activity, in what some observers noted to be a change in language from his previous calls for Israel to "halt" or "freeze" all building work.
But the costs hit home when ecosystem degradation translates into lost lives or illness, when scarcities bring supply chains to a grinding halt, when homes are destroyed or jobs lost, or when preventable damage from natural disasters overwhelms the budgets of insurers and governments.
Apart from Croatia and, eventually, a few Balkan states, EU enlargement has more or less ground to a halt.
Only those that were almost built, already paid for, or deemed too important to halt have continued throughout the recession in South-East Asia.
Unless Harmony's shareholders or Gold Fields' lawyers halt it first, the battle will last at least to November 26th, when the first stage of Harmony's bid is due.
Plans may be delayed or diminished, but a complete halt to building is unlikely.
And no amount of francophone or other resistance is likely to halt this.
One Machiavellian interpretation: Seagate may not be in it for the money, or even to force STEC to halt operations.
Hong Kong officials say they are ready to halt live poultry imports or cull birds if needed, as Shanghai has already done, to prevent a mass outbreak.
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