Standstill.

Time comes to a complete standstill.

His experiments came to a standstill.

The train lurched to a standstill.

In both cases, standstill triumphed over progress.

In Russia, however, everything is at a virtual standstill.

All the traffic was brought to a standstill by the accident.

The American economy is at a standstill and seems stuck on that plateau.

The debacle was so swift that economic life seemed to come to standstill.

And the major emerging economies are all slowing, with Russia practically at a standstill.

In any case, the time of standstill in the Middle East is coming to an end.

Traffic comes to a standstill in Muharraq, Bahrain, today as the King's son takes part in a triathlon.

Sadly, history suggests that when oil prices rise everybody starts lending Russia money again, bringing reform to a standstill.

And yet the Middle East is also a region that, throughout its innumerable conflicts, has hardly changed, languishing in a strange kind of standstill.

Following FeesMustFall nationwide protests that brought South African universities to a standstill, the South African government announced that there would be no fee hike.

The comprehensive curfews imposed on almost all large Palestinian towns in recent months effectively confine people to their homes, thus bringing the economy to a virtual standstill.

Everything favors his taking the second option, which will tend to lead to a standstill, and even a step back, in efforts to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

It would take a good deal more than a hiccup in the EU s delicate political process to bring integration to a standstill, let alone put it into reverse.

By that point, Ukraine s springtime of freedom had already deteriorated into a very visible development standstill, owing to a mixture of incompetence and corruption that cried out for change.

On one hand, Brazil has remained more or less at a standstill in terms of economic reform after the start of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva s administration in 2003.

The head of the village council said that the situation was at a standstill, the district administration was not responding to his demands, and he needed to do his job.

People are still talking about the Jeddah floods and their aftermath, almost three weeks after torrential rain and flooding brought life to a standstill in the western Saudi Arabian city.

This progress is all the more important given the complacency that led to a complete standstill in research and development for new TB interventions toward the end of the twentieth century.

The flood of refugees comes as Niger declares a state of emergency to tackle an insurgency that has brought Diffa's economy to a standstill and left much of the population vulnerable.

For The Sultan's Elephant, Royal de Luxe came to central London and brought it to a standstill with their story of a giant little girl and her friend, a time traveling elephant.

Should chaos of the kind witnessed in Libya occur in the Persian Gulf countries, for example, the world could literally come to a standstill, given the quantity of oil that they supply.

Following FeesMustFall nationwide protests that brought South African universities to a standstill, President Jacob Zuma met with student leaders on Friday, October 23, and announced that there will be a no fee hike.

This may already be happening the appreciation of the euro, from 1.20 to 1.30 in the past few months, was enough to bring European growth to a standstill during the third quarter of this year.

Traffic in Bahrain came to a standstill today (December 6) as some of the country's major roads were shut to traffic from 7am to 11am for the King's son to take part in a triathlon.

With regard to the environment, the fight against global warming has come to a standstill, with the United Nations last three annual climate change conferences, in Copenhagen, Cancún, and Durban, failing to renew the Kyoto Protocol.

But the retreat slowed after the mid 1990 s until, for some of the biggest and best known glaciers, such as Gangotri and Siachen, it had practically come to a standstill during the period 2007 2009.

Cambridge Global investors are in a giant huff over Dubai s decision to allow its flagship private company Dubai World to seek a six month standstill (implying at least partial default) on payments on some 26 billion in debt.

The classic argument that the EU, like a bicycle, must always keep moving forward to avoid falling over, is simply not true the reflection period may be frustrating for federalists, but it also proves that, even at a standstill, the EU continues.

After ten hours of protest and anticipation, the room of more than 1,800 passengers was brought to a standstill with an anti climatic announcement made by one of the police officers You have to leave we have finished our work for today.

Be deeply envious of your two colleagues who were in fact shooting your script when news of the insurrection reached them, and who, with all other work brought to a standstill by the events, report that they ve been venturing out with a camera to capture coup related action.

With economic growth at a standstill tax revenues evaporating, and deficits increasing more than expected and at the same time almost zero inflation, its economy will take a battering this is a giant task for the Ministry of the Economy at Bercy to tackle as it is unclear how this debt can be reduced.

First, during the talks in Baghdad, the P5 1 might seek an early confidence building agreement by which Iran voluntarily ceases enriching the U 235 fissile isotope to 20 content and blends down or ships out its stockpile of such uranium, which is closer to weapons grade. They might also seek a standstill on the deep underground enrichment facility at Fordow, near Qom, in exchange for provision of fuel rods for Iran s research reactor and a freeze on some sanctions.