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

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The Presbyterians needed to halt the endless generation of dangerous religious propaganda and continued what they felt on some level was the continued metastasis of Protestant sects.

长老派需要停止无穷无尽不断产生的,危险的宗教宣传,继续他们认为的在一定程度上,继续转移的清教徒派系。

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He manages to halt the activities.

他设法使活动停止。

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

VOA: special.2009.06.25

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

VOA: special.2009.06.25

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

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

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

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 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

He was forced to halt his blog and Webcast at the most critical time.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

He vowed once again that America will do all it can to halt piracy in the region, working in concert with other nations around the world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

The delegation of 25 congressmen from the Republican Party blasted the Obama administration for pressuring Israel to halt settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

But Secretary Clinton says it is not going to halt an Obama administration effort to get the Chinese-sponsored six-party talks in North Korea's nuclear program going again.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

President Nasheed says although wealthy nations have pledged to take steps to halt global warming, they have not committed to carbon reduction targets that will make this possible.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Sri Lanka has rejected repeated calls to halt its final offensive.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

Even before the global financial crisis hit late in 2008, the Vietnamese government was already working to halt galloping inflation and investment due to an overheated real estate sector.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

At their summit in London in early April, leaders of the Group of 20 advanced and developing economies promised to take all measures necessary to halt the economic decline.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

it wasn't a real effort to seek the truth,". Israel launched its offensive against Gaza's militant Hamas rulers in an attempt to halt years of rocket fire at Israeli towns.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

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

"We have faced an enemy who do not want to fight us force-on-force, rather they wanted to lay improvised explosive devices to halt us in our path and this summer total of 1,800 Improvised explosive devices laid in our path, so we have had to adapt quickly."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

At the time,more than one hundred ninety countries agreed to reduce or halt biodiversity losses by twenty ten.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

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

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