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Example sentences for: halt

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By shifting attitudes and teaching youth to understand each other, we halt the violence that plagues our schools and neighborhoods.
And while admitting that the New Deal was confused and failed to halt the Depression, the magazine argues that Roosevelt "restored Americans' faith and hopes" and thereby "saved them from fear itself."
As Beijing continued to threaten force to halt Taiwan's pretensions to independent statehood, the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong accused Lee of pursuing a "dangerous course."
By the 17th century, Évora had lost influence and development came to a halt, preserving the city’s distinctive 16th-century palácios for posterity.
Did the bifurcated Roosevelt White House do a disservice in providing a model for later administrations, in which poor folks and children and the lame and the halt were insidiously sentimentalized as women's work?