Word Finder - arresting

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To stop the motion of (a person or animal).

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To stay, remain.

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To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).

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To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

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The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.

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To catch the attention of.

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To undergo cardiac arrest.

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Striking, gripping

Quinn asked, arresting everyone's attention.

Her large eyes were arresting, her delicate features feminine and flawless.

Meanwhile the duplicates had reached Moltke, and he, knowing well the temperament of the "Red Prince" and the impossibility of arresting the intended movement, obtained the royal sanction to a letter addressed to the crown prince, in which the latter was ordered to co-operate with his whole command.

His conduct in following them up into the Spanish territory of Florida, in seizing Pensacola, and in arresting and executing two British subjects, Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert Ambrister, gave rise to much hostile comment in the cabinet and in Congress; but the negotiations for the purchase of Florida put an end to the diplomatic difficulty.

To the consuls of other nations the United States government have always accorded the privileges of arresting deserters, and of being themselves amenable only to the Federal and not to the States courts.

The arrangements for arresting sparks in American practice and on the continent of Europe are somewhat elaborate.

Zapolya, a devout Catholic, is lauded by Archbishop Frangipan in 1533 for arresting the spread of the new doctrines, though he would not allow Martinuzzi to take the extreme step of burning perverts at the stake.

In April 1895 the long-standing dispute as to the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela was brought to a crisis by the action of the Venezuelan authorities in arresting Inspectors Barnes and Baker, of the British Guiana police, with a few of their subordinates, on the Cuyuni river, the charge being that they were illegally exercising the functions of British officials in Venezuelan territory.

The climate has a beneficial effect on pulmonary diseases, especially in their earlier stages, and is remarkable in arresting the decay of vital power consequent upon old age.

In arresting haemorrhage temporarily the chief thing is to press directly on the bleeding part.

In short, the little chisel becomes in his fingers a painters brush, and when it is remembered that, the basis upon which he works being simply a thread of silk, his hand must be trained to such delicacy of muscular effort as to be capable of arresting the edge of the knile at varying depths within the diameter of the tiny filament, the difficulty of the achievement will be understood.

Even as a grammarian he performed an important service to the literary language of Rome, by fixing its prosody and arresting the tendency to decay in its final syllables.

These artificial lakes are usually formed by throwing embankments across the lower extremities of valleys, and thus arresting and accumulating the waters flowing through them.

In the struggle, although he was bitterly accused of violating the written constitution, of arresting and destroying business prosperity and of attempting a radical departure from the accepted social system of the country, he was remarkably successful.

By his able policy Odo succeeded in arresting their progress for some years; but a new vali, Abdur Rahman, a member of an extremely fanatical sect, resumed the attack, reached Poitiers, and advanced on Tours, the holy town of Gaul.

How far he was above his contemporaries, how little appreciated or understood by them, is shown by the absence of references to him in other Greek writers, and by the fact that his work had no effect in arresting the decay of mathematical science.

In 1198 Hubert, who had inherited from his predecessors in the primacy a fierce quarrel with the Canterbury monks, gave these enemies an opportunity of complaining to the pope, for in arresting the London demagogue, William Fitz Osbert, he had committed an act of sacrilege in Bow Church, which belonged to the monks.

The result was that in numerous parishes the police were occupied in searching for the priest who was living there among the people; although his habitation was known to hundreds of people, the police seldom succeeded in arresting him.

The Rye House plot gave an excuse for arresting the Whig leaders; Russell and Sidney were judicially murdered; Monmouth retired to Toddington, in Bedfordshire, and was left untouched.

They were restrained from arresting Him by fear of the people, to whom the meaning of the parable was plain.

Morphine is recognized as one of the most useful drugs in the treatment of eclampsia, early injection often arresting the fits.

But these leaders restrained their followers sharply whenever the suggestion of secession was made, and the question of what was meant by arresting the course of Federal legislation was left in doubt.

In 1659 he was giving directions as to the suppression of the revolt of the gentry which threatened in Normandy, Anjou and Poitou, with characteristic decision arresting those whom he suspected and arranging every detail of their trial, the immediate and arbitrary destruction of their castles and woods, and the execution of their chief, Bonnesson.

He quelled the attempted revolution in 1848 without bloodshed by arresting all the conspirators and expelling them from the country.

It often relieves hunger, by arresting the secretion of gastric j uice and the movements of the stomach and bowel,'* and it frequently upsets digestion from the same cause.

Vendome, however, was recalled, and La Feuillade (who succeeded him) was incapable of long arresting the progress of such a commander as Eugene.

Purification When surface waters began to be used for potable purposes, some mode of arresting suspended matter, whether living or dead, became necessary.

De Montfort answered by raising an army, arresting prothinent aliens, and seizing the lands which the king had given them.

The Chinese, indeed, endeavoured to delay their progress by negotiation rather than by force; and they succeeded in treacherously arresting some distinguished persons who had been sent into the Chinese lines to negotiate.

Arresting the commissaries of the Convention sent to inquire into his conduct, he handed them over to the enemy, and then attempted to persuade his 'troops to march on Paris and overthrow the revolutionary government.

The followers of Hbert wanted to push forward the movement of May 31, 1793, in order to become masters in their turn; while those of Danton were by way of arresting it.

There followed an exchange of views on arresting and jailing young offenders, something Fitzgerald felt should be done as an example—"put the bad apples where they belong"—while Dean stressed education in addition to enforcement.

The arresting cover is a wraparound of Gilbert and George's great panoramic allegory of 1983.

Probably the most visually arresting film I've seen in some time.

The sounds from his expert's audio equipment are immediately arresting, and again, very, very loud.

The ghostly effects behind the screen & the witches entrances & exits were very arresting.

Both Bob and Jennifer, separately and collaboratively, devote each of their days to producing new and often arresting work.

Once again, Police overreaction prevented free movement for protest by continuously penning people in and violently arresting protesters.

But for many others it will be merely one of a flurry of sometimes arresting but usually uncontextualised images.

Sugar substitutes Chewing gums containing sugar substitutes have been found to be effective in retarding or arresting rampant dentine caries.

Particularly arresting on this CD was Bull's Ut re mi fa sol la because of its chromaticism.

Over the years railroad police officers have played their part in arresting murderers and other felons, and so also have many other railwaymen.

South of Baghdad, US and Iraqi forces launched raids killing 17 suspected insurgents and arresting 32 suspects.

This arresting sentiment guided Andrew Carnegie, the American steel plutocrat to disburse his entire fortune in philanthropic work.

In late October, Home Secretary David Blunkett announced that the British government will soon abandon the policy of arresting people for marijuana possession.

The difficulties are arresting dozens of riders on horseback in open, often rugged, countryside are enormous.

The large asymmetrical leaves are in metallic silver, pinks, reds and purples, often combined in arresting patterns.

Shouldn't they be at a donut shop somewhere or arresting some old biddy for having a toke?

A widening to accommodate the growth of traffic, after being frequently discussed for many years, was completed in 1904, by means of corbels projecting on either side, without arresting traffic during the work.

In 1798 he joined Jefferson in opposing the Alien and Sedition Laws, and Madison himself wrote the resolutions of the Virginia legislature declaring that it viewed "the powers of the Federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them."