Word: halt
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Hopefully, any incursion in the Caribbean will not keep the U.S. from participating in a long-awaited effort to halt the genocidal activities of Serbian forces in Bosnia. After all, the Department of Defense claimed during the last round of budget-cutting that it had to have sufficient forces to fight two large-scale wars on different continents--44,000 soldiers are hardly enough for a major conflict anyway...
Conservative French pin the blame for the massive American invasion on the French media, which seeks to appeal to a younger audience by using bits of the English language and American culture. Some hardliners want the French government to bring this new fad to a halt before American and French culture become so intertwined that they can no longer be told apart...
Genevieve Roach '94 can't type or play piano for more than an hour a time. Any longer than that, and the pain in her wrists brings her to a halt...
...father is mentioned exactly once) is introduced in a hackneyed song called "Larger then Life." This number is unfortunately typical in its irritating soliloquy style. As written by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens the songs don't just pause the action, they bring it to a screeching halt...
...tumor-suppressor gene p53 is often described as "the guardian of the genome" because it keeps watch over DNA during cell division. When damage occurs, p53 commands other genes to bring cell division to a halt. If repairs are made, then p53 allows the cell cycle to continue. But in some cases, if the damage is too serious to be patched, p53 activates other genes that cause the cell to self-destruct. Mutations in p53, which have been detected in more than 50% of all human cancers, are thus extremely dangerous. In laboratory cultures, some cancer cells that possess mutant...