Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people who collectively declare that genocide is an issue important enough to determine their voting habits and their political donations. By recruiting new members into this constituency and giving them the tools to pressure their representatives, we will finally create the political incentive for politicians to prevent and halt genocide. Knowing that hundreds or thousands of such dues-paying members are living and voting in each member’s district gives even the most reluctant congressperson reason...
...After weaving through the Baghdad traffic, the three cars came to a halt in gridlock on Route Irish. It was a few minutes before noon. American troops had blocked the road to clear away the remains of a car damaged by a bomb. Civilian vehicles between the convoy and the roadblock turned off to find alternative routes. The security men, wearing white Arab robes, sat quietly in the line of traffic. Then team leader Johnson climbed out of Ahmelman's car and began firing in the air to warn other vehicles to stay clear - an act which clearly identified...
...Ahmelman was slumped against the window. Hunt, bleeding to death from a wound to his femoral artery, lay on the ground beside the vehicle while Johnson tried to treat him. Harris, in the armored Mercedes, tried to drive closer to help Surette, but the vehicle sputtered to a halt after about 3 m, apparently damaged in the attack. At last the machinegun fire stopped; on the tape, Johnson can be heard calling Ahmelman's nickname: "Camel, Camel, Camel!" In the confused aftermath of the firefight, a vehicle headed toward the group from behind. Fearing the worst, Yeager fired into...
...Officers were sent to the Science Center because of a complaint regarding 10 people donning bathing suits, taking pictures, and making “lewd” gestures. Police arrived and put a halt to the lascivious behavior
...coalition of more than two dozen law schools—known as the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights—which sued the Bush administration in 2003 to halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment, argues that the statute violates schools’ free-speech and free-association rights by preventing law schools from expressing their disapproval of the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...