To a standstill.

Rome at a standstill.

The protests brought the country to a standstill.

We brought Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road to a standstill.

Two women and a con, and we whipped the bureau to a standstill.

loudly with his foot and thus brought the father to a standstill.

Nevertheless, it has remained at a standstill for almost a decade.

We have a severe problem in countries which are at a standstill.

Sequential GDP growth slowed to a low single digit pace a virtual standstill by Chinese standards.

In both cases, standstill triumphed over progress.

The two armies came to a standstill as neither side was able to make much progress.

Ten people brought 20 million people to a standstill, and this traveled around the world.

These figures show that the programme is once again at a standstill.

As a result of insecurity in south Mogadishu, many humanitarian programmes had come to a temporary standstill.

The explosion of the peace keeping budget has almost brought the United Nations to a standstill.

We're assuming we're starting at a standstill ...plus 0... all of that over 2

So let's say I start at a standstill at time t equals 0, and then I accelerate, then I decelerate a little bit, decelerate a little bit, I keep decelerating, and then I come to a standstill, so my position stays still.

The entire Iranian oil industry came to a virtual standstill, oil production dropping from in 1950 to in 1952.

But the South was never conquered, and its army, the SPLA, twice fought the North to a standstill.

18. However, the resumption of hostilities on 8 February 1993 brought the negotiations to a standstill and caused

After fighting a major Soviet offensive in June July 1944 to a standstill, Finland reached an armistice with the Soviet Union.

This allows Governments facing difficulty in servicing their bonded debt to declare a standstill without exposing themselves to disruptive legal actions.

Some members said that there was also a risk that during the transition period, the whole system might come to a standstill.

Traffic comes to a standstill in Muharraq, Bahrain, today as the King's son takes part in a triathlon. Photograph shared by MohdBucheeri on Twitter Traffic in Bahrain came to a standstill today (December 6) as some of the country's major roads were shut to traffic from 7am to 11am for the King's son to take part in a triathlon.

His lane of traffic was at a standstill, but it was normal on a weekend night such as this.

The fact that, two months later, the process remains at a virtual standstill is a source of grave concern.

War Communism saved the Soviet government during the Civil War, but much of the Russian economy had ground to a standstill.

In any case, the time of standstill in the Middle East is coming to an end.

We are convinced that the new threats to peace and security require that this standstill be overcome.

Everything favors his taking the second option, which will tend to lead to a standstill, and even a step back, in efforts to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

In 2005, our prime minister was assassinated, and the country came to a complete standstill, so we organized a five kilometer United We Run campaign.

There was a sort of a standstill in Britain the moment of her death, and people decided to mourn her death in a sort of mass way.

Distributions in Lofa, Cape Mount and Bomi counties decreased, then came to a virtual standstill, with special relief convoys dispatched sporadically under ECOMOG protection.

As a result of insecurity in Mogadishu South, many humanitarian programmes, including the distribution of food and medical supplies, came to a temporary standstill in that area.

They tell us that the bombing is targeting Baba Amr. Time comes to a complete standstill. The next transfer date arrives exactly one day later.

During this 60 hour siege on Mumbai, 10 men armed not just with weapons, but with technology, were able to bring a city of 20 million people to a standstill.

The usual double standard and the exercise or threat of a veto by one of its permanent members had brought the Council to a standstill on the issue.

And yet the Middle East is also a region that, throughout its innumerable conflicts, has hardly changed, languishing in a strange kind of standstill.

This was the backlash in Kenya, and Ghana bypassed, but then Kenya and Ghana go down together still a standstill in Congo.

By that point, Ukraine s springtime of freedom had already deteriorated into a very visible development standstill, owing to a mixture of incompetence and corruption that cried out for change.

Private sector activity is slowing, and it is nearing a standstill in the eurozone s most vulnerable economy (Greece), where a bank run is in full swing.

Industry continued to grow, except in 1968 and 1972 when industry came to a standstill in the context of the soaring war (Tet Offensive and aerial raids of North Vietnam).

Students were carrying out internships in other countries, but mostly on their own initiative, and it all came to a standstill with the onslaught of World War II.

Standstill is regress and regress produces a vicious circle meagre results at the negotiating table, no implementation, more insecurity, less willingness to talk, no results and so on.

All of this could lead to a standstill, which, in the current environment, would be tantamount to going backward, threatening not only European integration s future prospects, but also its past accomplishments.