Word Finder - standstill

definition

Complete immobility; halt

example

The wreck brought traffic to a standstill for hours.

The little car slowed to a standstill, but Katie continued spinning the tires.

Then gold-mining, after being long at a standstill, began again to make headway.

The days grew warmer, and work on the house on the hill drew to a standstill.

For example, say, the rising point of the major lunar standstill.

After the elections of 1881, which brought about the reamalgamation of the various Radical sections, the opposition presented a united front to the government, so that, from 1882 onwards, legislation was almost at a standstill.

On the latter, the Bulgarian advance had come to a standstill, as soon as King Constantine had brought up his reserves, and the counter-offensive opened on the 3rd.

I am at a standstill at present both are wearing pull-ups, now weather is drier it is time to start again.

This month's Cycle Forum revealed a virtual standstill for major cycling projects by the Council.

The following is a diagram showing a major and minor lunar standstill of the Full Moon.

Mark Ballard (Green) said that the problem is clearly that councils are expected to do more on almost standstill funding.

Comments about tailored standstill periods made under b apply.

But the right of the 1st Army (12th division) was threatened by the gathering storm of the counterstroke from the side of Yentai Mines, and had it not been that the resolute Okasaki continued the attack on Manjuyama alone, the Japanese offensive would have come to a standstill.

The fugitives of Orlov's command disordered the on-coming corps of Stakelberg, and the outer flank of the great counterstroke that was to have rolled up Kuroki's thin line came to an entire standstill.

The origin of the liberum veto is obscure, but it was first employed by the deputy Wiadislaus Sicinski, who dissolved the diet of 1652 by means of it, and before the end of the 17th century it was used so frequently and recklessly that all business was frequently brought to a standstill.

During the long stay at Munich (1806-1841) Schelling's literary activity seemed gradually to come to a standstill.

Three-quarters of the population are estimated to have lost their lives, and commerce and industry were brought to a standstill.

For six centuries previous to about 800, European interest in practical geographical expansion was at a standstill.

In the interval it had been a prey to armed bands from the highlands of Chota Nagpur, with whom the raja was unable to cope, and who practically brought the trade of the Company in the district to a standstill.

Highway robbery was general, the lives and property of traders were in continual jeopardy, and the machinery for the enforcement of the laws was almost at a standstill.

So terrestrial latitude would have to be 63 north for a lunar standstill north to be truly circumpolar today.

Others hung banners from highway overpasses, causing rush hour traffic to halt to a standstill as commuters pondered the demonstration.

Finally, he brought himself to a standstill in front of the seated Master, and bowed with a somewhat sardonic smile.

Traffic came to a standstill as they marched down the road toward Holmes Avenue chanting anti-war slogans.

Any animals added to the isolation unit from outside the holding would trigger a 20 day standstill on the isolation unit.

The Bank's view for some time has been that house price rises will slow down to the point where they reach standstill.

But a huge deterrent for live sales of prime cattle has been the 20-day standstill.

May 1954 Strikes brought the banana industry in the country to a near standstill.

Earlier this year the Alaskan pipeline network was almost brought to a complete standstill by a stray bullet from a hunting rifle.

But are the findings relevant to January 2003 as the farm standstill regulations are shortly to ease from 20 days to 6 days?

What this means is that any sovereign debt standstill would need to be orderly, efficient, equitable and expeditious.

But difficulties arose with the censor, and matters came to a standstill.

All trade and industry were in 1921 at an absolute standstill owing to Bolshevism.

Hamilton's army was ready to land, the defenders should be in a position to bring it to a standstill.

The squadron nevertheless tamely returned to harbour, Togo resumed the blockade and Nogi began his advance from Nanshan, but the 2nd and 4th Armies came to a standstill at once (naval escort for their sea-borne supplies being no longer available), and the 1st Army, whose turn to advance had just arrived, only pushed ahead a few miles to cover a larger supply area.

On the 1st of July the Vladivostok squadron appeared in the Tsushima Straits, and then vanished to an unknown destination, and whether this intensified the anxiety of the Japanese or not, it is the fact that the 2nd Army halted for eleven days at Kaiping, bringing the next on its right, 4th Army, to a standstill likewise.

But Oku's 2nd Army was now at a standstill at Kaiping, and until he was further advanced the 1st Army could not press forward.

Thus the turning movement came to a standstill far short of Uffingen, the village on Mercy's line of retreat that Turenne was to have seized, nor was a flank attack possible against Mercy's main line, from which he was separated by the crest of the Schonberg.

On the front, too, the Russian attack came to a standstill and ebbed, for Soimonov's overcrowded battalions jostled one another and dissolved on the narrow and broken plateau.

Franco organized a coalition in defence of the Crown, but in January 1907 business in the cortes was brought to a standstill and many sittings ended in uproar.

It was also shown that exposure to light, dilution or exhaustion of the food-media, the presence of traces of poisons or metabolic products check growth or even bring it to a standstill; and the death or injury of any single cell in the filamentous series shows its effect on the curve by lengthening the doubling period, because its potential progeny have been put out of play.

As a consequence of the second Punic War, Roman agriculture was at a standstill; accordingly, recourse was had to Sicily and Sardinia (the first two Roman provinces) in order to keep up the supply of corn; a tax of one-tenth was imposed on it, and its export to any country except Italy forbidden.

He afterwards ruled with almost absolute power in Angora, and thence conducted the counter-offensive of the Turkish Nationalists against the Greeks when the latter, in 1921, made their ineffectual forward movement in Asia Minor, which was brought to a standstill in the autumn.

It is never true while men live that thought is at a standstill; but, as nearly as it may be true, Eastern theology has made it so.

For three-quarters of a century, then, philosophy was at a standstill; and, when in the second decade of the 4th century the pursuit of truth was resumed, it was plain that Zeno's paradox of predication must be disposed of before the problems which had occupied the earlier thinkers - the problem of knowledge and the problem of being - could be so much as attempted.

Trade and commerce were at a standstill, agriculture was neglected, the privileges and estates of the margrave passed into private hands, the nobles were virtually independent, and the towns sought to defend themselves by means of alliances.

If one is found to have foul brood, then a standstill order will be placed on ALL of them.

During the northern summer the south-west monsoon, which is sufficiently strong to bring navigation practically to a standstill except for powerful steamers, sets up a strong north-easterly drift in the Arabian Sea, and the water removed from the east African coast is replaced by the upwelling of cold water from below; this is one of the best illustrations of this action extant.

The Russians retreated eighty miles--to beyond Moscow--and the French reached Moscow and there came to a standstill.

I even pulled to a standstill in fifth gear and then snicked down through the box and readily into neutral.

The Bank 's view for some time has been that house price rises will slow down to the point where they reach standstill.