Air traffic over much of Europe came to a halt for six days because of the huge cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

But we all know that the reason things come to a halt when you push them is, there eventually is some friction or drag or something bringing them to rest.

但我们都知道,推完之后会停下来的原因就是,最后还是有某种摩擦或者拖拽,或者别的什么使得物体静止下来

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Somalia's Prime Minister is calling for a halt to ransom payments to pirates and kidnappers.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

The drummer threw down his instrument and brought Charlie to a halt.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

U.S.envoy George Mitchell met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but failed to achieve a breakthrough on a halt to Jewish settlement expansion.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

In his landmark speech from Cairo in June, President Obama said there can be no progress toward peace without a halt to settlement construction.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

The normally reliable fast train link connecting London and Paris also has ground to a halt.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Most public transportation ground to a halt,and flights to and from Washington were canceled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

(SAYING) But,it was the earthquake last January that brought production to a halt.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

It is also the stronghold of the red-shirt movement, which has brought downtown Bangkok to a halt in two months of protests that have seen repeatedly turned violent.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

The LTTE,in a statement, says 150,000 civilians, on the verge of starvation in the sliver of coastal land they still control, can only be helped by a halt in the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

"We must keep in mind how even apparently unsuccessful attacks on Western mass transportation systems can bring major cities to a halt, cost the enemy billions and send his corporations into bankruptcy."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The Palestinians claim the West Bank and East Jerusalem as territory for a future state, and they have conditioned a resumption of peace talks on a halt to all Israeli construction in those areas.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

(Recording) He says that postponing the election because of the electoral law would mean that the government would lose its legitimacy, along with that of parliament, bringing everything to a halt and spawning chaos.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

As voters in the northern half of the island, known as the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus,go to the polls, its leader Mehmet Ali Talat has warned if he is defeated the current United Nations sponsored reunification talks will grind to a halt.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Khin Ohmar, a member of the Forum for Democracy in Burma, says ASEAN needs to press Burma to talk with the democratic opposition and ethnic nationalities about the release of political prisoners and a halt to human rights abuses against ethnic minorities.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

Brown's son,Watson, and another man fired at a railroad guard who refused to halt.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Palestinian officials say the Obama administration is encouraging Israel to sidestep a 2003 agreement calling for a complete halt to those settlements.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

In December,Hungary,Slovakia and the Czech Republic faced a potential halt in oil deliveries from Russia which had a pricing dispute with neighboring Ukraine.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

a 15-kilometer-wide barrier of trees that would cross 11 countries and halt the spread of the Sahara.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

In April,the P5+1 offered Iran a revised package of incentives for it to halt uranium enrichment and return to negotiations over its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

The negotiating process, according to political columnist Murat Yetkin, has come to a virtual halt.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

So,the process sort of came to a screeching halt at that point."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

The P5+1 last year presented Iran with a revised offer of incentives for it to halt a uranium enrichment effort U.S.and European officials believe is weapons-related and return to negotiations on its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

But,she warns this progress is fragile. She says the momentum for health development could come to a grinding halt because of problems stemming from the food and financial crises, the changing climate and the H1N1 influenza pandemic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29