The government has, for now, stopped an all-out financial meltdown, but its work is not done.
Republicans stopped an attempt by Democrats to require the military to give troops longer rest periods between deployments.
Last month another dispute between Australian state and federal governments stopped an application being forwarded to have the landmark World Heritage Listed.
Last month a crate was discovered in the Kachin state capital Myitkyina, but muddy water stopped an immediate identification of its contents.
It is widely reported a radio jammer inside the car of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf stopped an attempt to assassinate him last December.
The Mets stopped an eight-game home losing streak to the Nats.
In October 2003, the government of Kano State in Nigeria stopped an ongoing polio vaccination program and did not allow it to resume until August 2004.
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Horse and carriage rides at a Suffolk country fair should have been stopped an hour before a horse ran into a crowd of spectators, an inquest has heard.
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He said he stopped an ambulance, full of injured people, asked the driver take the girl and then continued to help others, some of whom had smoke coming off their bodies.
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The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.
President LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA (Brazil): (Through translator) My mother, who was poor, would make me and my brother lift up the sofa so she could clean the dirt that no one saw - just like my government - we expose the dirt that had been pushed under the rug and we never stopped an investigation.
Greenpeace activists recently surrounded and chained themselves to a truck transporting plutonium from the La Hague nuclear recycling facility to an undisclosed burial site, as it stopped at an intersection in the middle of a French town.
But now, as the Instagram backlash shows, Facebook has long stopped being an exclusive club.
About 10 minutes into the second half, the game stopped and an ambulance was rushed onto the field.
We stopped at an old photo -- men and boys lying in their wooden bunks, barely more than skeletons.
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Brendan Snyder, a gay man who lives near where the shooting occurred, stopped at an improvised memorial at the scene.
En route, we also stopped at an open-air restaurant for grilled Mekong fish, one of the most pleasing staples of the Lao diet.
The UN said they had been on "a regular supply mission" when they were stopped near an observation post by the armed men.
Demolition work was initially stopped after an injunction was served on the council while the request for a judicial review was under way.
The closure of 12 fire stations in London could be stopped by an amendment to the mayor's budget, the London Assembly has proposed.
The bullet's velocity was stopped by an eyeglass case and a thick manuscript, for a speech which Roosevelt characteristically insisted on giving before going to the hospital.
In the days that followed, the elder Mr. Roth was stopped by an officer in South Carolina, apparently on his way back from a time share in Florida, prosecutors said.
On my very first trip with my new State FFA officers in 2005, we stopped at an elementary school on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation to ask for directions to the high school.
As we know, as soon as women were able to control reproduction, pursue studies, enter the job market and aspire to financial independence, motherhood stopped being an inevitable, self-evident step and became a choice instead.
''It was an innocent enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools, but it was obviously not appropriately vetted, and if it had been, it would have been stopped in an instant.
It comes a week after an order temporarily stopped the Guardian reporting details of an MP's parliamentary question.
However, it said that its investigation had found that three pumps at the station stopped working for an hour.
It's time the First Minister stopped behaving like an opposition politician, showed some guts and leadership and got on with his job.
The competition was stopped for about an hour while she was treated.
Police stopped and searched an Amtrak train in East Norwalk, Conn.
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