Word: haltingly
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Lifland also expressed skepticism towards FAIR’s constitutional claims and rejected the group’s request for a temporary injunction to halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment...
President Bush is counting on men like Aziz and Abbas to halt the escalating violence convulsing post-Saddam Iraq. Just as U.S. forces thought they were getting a handle on security, a series of coordinated, deadly attacks last week raised the Administration's Iraq troubles to an alarming new level. One day after rockets slammed into Baghdad's al-Rashid Hotel, where Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying, the city was hit by four bombings within 45 minutes--three at police stations and one at the headquarters of the Red Cross. Thirty-four Iraqis and one American were killed...
...harder life than in a sixth-grader's backpack." One lesson the faculty learned fast was that if you're going to base your lesson plan on the computers, have a backup plan. If you don't, when one kid's laptop crashes, the whole class grinds to a halt...
Hitting the hole at full speed, Veach looked as though he would burst untouched into the end zone to pull within one, but a pair of Crimson defenders collapsed on him at the two-yard line, stopping his forward progress. The halt was only temporary as the 5’10 back, on the strength of a second and then a third effort, forced his way across the goal line, dragging the larger defenders along with...
...puerile or cowboy-ish. But the blind homage paid to the world body on this, the organization’s birthday, should not cloud the fact that the U.N., by virtue of its membership’s extremely divergent interests, is an impotent organization, powerless to truly halt affronts to human rights...