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Example sentences for: brake

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The paper also observes (as does the LAT ) that the IMF may serve as a powerful brake on Indonesian misbehavior, in that it has promised, but not yet delivered, tens of billions in emergency financial support.
Like the Popular Front in 1936, the new government began with a quick-fire set of reforms — a broad program of nationalization, abolition of the death penalty, raising the minimum wage, and the introduction of a fifth week of holiday with pay — until the impact of the world economic crisis imposed a necessary brake.
But the Communists broke the alliance after Blum first failed to support the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and then — faced with financial difficulties — put a brake on the reforms.
When society makes an unnecessarily broad assumption that nearly all research with financial implications for investigators or their institution is potentially corrupted, a brake is placed on progress.
The story in today's papers that caused me to mentally brake to a halt was a front-page piece in the Washington Post by Alan Sipress about how the Los Alamos National Laboratory is now busily researching traffic patterns.