Word: haltingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world. Pelts are sold at fur auctions, made into consumer goods and then distributed further. In China alone, at least 2 million domestic animals are killed annually for their fur, according to the Humane Society International. With a handful of parliamentary colleagues, Stevenson is pushing the European Commission to halt the illicit trade. "I'm not suggesting that the Chinese change their ways," says Stevenson. "But if we close Europe to this trade, they'll only have Russia and their home market." Within the E.U., only Italy has so far applied a unilateral ban on dog and cat fur. Making...
...several acoustic instruments—like trumpets—and impose a dress code for all performers. Fortunately popular criticism of the regulations—in the days after they were announced, some 6,000 people signed a petition protesting the new rules—motivated the MBTA to halt enforcement of its Street Performer Regulations for a week for further discussion. The MBTA should heed the sentiments of their critics and allow street musicians to continue performing with little restraint...
...abuses that were cited by the European Union as reasons to delay Turkey's membership, and the al-Qaeda aligned insurgents may want to provoke a widespread crackdown and foment hostility between secular military authorities and a civilian political leadership with Islamist roots, in the hope that this could halt Turkey's democratic reform process and delay its accession to the EU. Turkey may have managed to avoid domestic political discord by staying out of the Iraq war, but al-Qaeda may now be forcing some tough choices on the Turkish leadership...
...plans for the singer's whirlwind two-week European publicity tour - to promote the Nov. 17 release of her fourth album, a pulsating dance disc called In the Zone, on which she moans and groans to a more grown-up and blatantly sexual beat - shiver and cough to a halt. Spears has made only one stop on the tour before Paris, five days and at least one allegedly shaky night in London. Now the rest of her jam-packed itinerary - showcases in Germany and Spain, a much-anticipated appearance in Scotland for the MTV Europe Music Awards - is about...
...Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned in September after Arafat undermined his attempts to curb Islamic terrorists. Qurie lost his struggle with Arafat to name a strong security chief to face down Hamas, as Israel and the U.S. have demanded. Israeli leader Ariel Sharon is skeptical about Qurie's ability to halt terrorism, but Sharon's insistence on a total cease-fire as a precondition to peace talks with the Palestinians came under fire at home. Four former chiefs of Israel's security service said Sharon's policies endangered Israel's future, and called for a withdrawal from the occupied territories. Poor...