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Example sentences for: halt

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But that view gained momentum Friday with the judge's declaration that "it is Microsoft's corporate practice to pressure other firms to halt software development that either shows the potential to weaken the applications barrier to entry or competes directly with Microsoft's most cherished software products."
The Christian right wants to dissolve the massive Washington bureaucracies, but conservatives such as Steve Forbes and George W. Bush favor a powerful federal government that will "use morality-driven, activist foreign policy and a series of grand domestic initiatives to halt the right's drift into localism and insularity."
Chinese secret societies waged constant gang wars for the control of the mines, bringing production to a halt at a time when world demand for tin was at a peak.
To halt the Iroquois advance, the French community of 300 burned their own village and returned to Québec.
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?