Stock exchanges have agreed to temporarily halt trading of any stock that rises or falls ten percent or more within five minutes.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

But soon,credit markets around the world slowed to a halt on fears about the health of banks.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

On Friday,there were new demands for Iran to follow Security Council resolutions to halt nuclear enrichment.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

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

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

VOA: special.2009.04.25

Fisk thought this meant that President Grant had agreed to halt government sales of gold.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

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

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Brown's men ordered him to halt. Shepherd tried to run and was shot.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

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

VOA: special.2009.05.03

U.S.officials have put pressure on the Israeli government to halt construction of settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Mr.Obama has lost popularity in Israel because of American pressure to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

In the past, to halt the dollar's fall, the Bank of Japan has sold yen and bought dollars.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Resolution 1929 increases the pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear activities and come to the negotiating table.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

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

Also,Israel will not halt construction in disputed East Jerusalem, which it sees as part of the indivisible capital of the Jewish state.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Mitchell will press Israel to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and disputed East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

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

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 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

Last week, Mr.Netanyahu offered to halt Israeli settlement construction in exchange for normalization with Arab states.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

But instead of accepting the proposed halt in settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian leaders rejected the peace offering, as "nothing new".

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

The Palestinians say they are hoping for an announcement that Washington will step up the pressure on Israel to halt construction in the settlements.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

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

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