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grind to a halt

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  1. be unable to move further
    The car bogged down in the sand

How To Use grind to a halt In A Sentence

  • Jenny says if services do grind to a halt for a day it will at least demonstrate the importance and value of the work council staff do.
  • Unless a sea-based source of biodiesel is developed we can expect our agricultural miracle to grind to a halt no later than 2030. Matthew Yglesias » The Case for Ever-Bigger Government
  • There is the danger that the political process of democratization will grind to a halt.
  • The notion that the official machine will grind to a halt in these conditions is abject nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
  • Liberties would be discarded to seek illusionary security; commerce would grind to a halt under the burden of regulation and continual emergency.
  • Spain was plunged deeper into the economic quagmire yesterday after its central bank predicted that growth would grind to a halt in the third quarter. Times, Sunday Times
  • The South East in particular would grind to a halt without industrious foreign workers. The Sun
  • The South East in particular would grind to a halt without industrious foreign workers. The Sun
  • I refer to the people who have caused the governmental process to grind to a halt over the past five years by their childish obstructionism in the legislature.
  • Without that finance being freely available, the world's leading innovative economy will grind to a halt with consequences far worse than a few Congressmen losing their jobs or a handful of fat cats jammily avoiding a deserved come-uppance. EUobserver.com - Headline News
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