Word: haltingly
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...this Holocaust Remembrance Day, as we say “never again,” we must attend to the root causes of political evil to halt its present and future existence...
...when an entry pass was hurled diagonally across the goal mouth to junior midfielder Jen Brooks a few feet to her right, Calidonia lunged forward, taking herself out of position in an attempt to intercept it and halt the Crimson attack...
...closing chapters, Ferguson argues that through the two world wars, the British Empire sacrificed itself to halt the rise of the Nazi, Japanese and Italian empires. In a rhetorical flourish, he asks, “Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire’s other sins...
Power’s opus resonates with a central accusation: U.S. policymakers did nothing to halt cases of genocide when there was not a “vital national interest.” The “gatekeepers”—a term Power uses to refer to those in leadership positions—had to feel force of public opinion or other pressures before they took action...
...process ground to a halt, she says, after she refused to undergo mediation and was not granted an exemption...