Glowering looks met them in the bar, but there was no attempt to halt them.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.

Inheriting a collapsing empire and faced with constant warfare during his reign against both the Seljuq Turks in Asia Minor and the Normans in the western Balkans, Alexios was able to halt the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial, and territorial recovery known as the Komnenian restoration.

Due to disagreements between French President Charles de Gaulle and the Commission's agriculture proposals, among other things, France boycotted all meetings of the Council bringing work to a halt until it was resolved the following year by the Luxembourg compromise.

Though Norway tried to halt this process it was forced to relent after the Black Death decimated its population.

It was only in early 19th century that his popularity came to a sudden halt.

The L4 microkernel was the original choice in 2004, but progress slowed to a halt.

The government raised the price of gasoline, which it had been selling at a huge loss to quiet popular discontent, and the hyperinflation came to a halt almost immediately, since it was able to bring in hard currency by selling its oil abroad.

Through targeted inundations of polders by breaking dykes, the French invasion of the Dutch Republic was brought to a halt.

A diagnosis was made several weeks later and by then removal of his esophagus, two lymph nodes, and a rib on March 1, 1956, was too late to halt the disease, even with chemotherapy.

Horthy was overthrown because he had sought a separate peace with the Allies and had ordered a halt to the deportations.

He was convinced that the United States and Japan could reach a true agreement, and when that happened, he would radio back to the palace, and the Emperor would issue a rescript ordering a complete halt to all aggressive activities.

This period of economic stability and prosperity was brought to an abrupt halt with the collapse of Yousef Beidas ' Intra Bank, the country's largest bank and financial backbone, in 1966.

A ECOWAS-ECOMIL force of 1000 Nigerian troops was airlifted into Liberia on August 15, to halt the occupation of Monrovia by rebel forces.

On 27 June, at a show in Nuremberg, Germany, the concert came to an abrupt halt in the middle of the third song when Bonham collapsed on-stage and was rushed to hospital.

If at any time the subject indicated his desire to halt the experiment, he was given a succession of verbal prods by the experimenter, in this order:

Though unable to halt the bill's passage, his campaign was successful in drawing attention to the grievances of Indians in South Africa.

Stalin was waiting to see whether the Germans would halt within the agreed area, and also the Soviet Union needed to secure the frontier in the Far East.

It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected the First Secretary of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and continued until 21 August when the Soviet Union and all members of the Warsaw Pact, with the notable exception of Romania, invaded the country to halt the reforms.

The pope excommunicated the Crusaders who attacked Christian cities, but was unable to halt or overturn their actions.

Throughout June while Philip's campaign ground to a halt in the north, Richard was taking a number of important fortresses to the south.

Almost immediately he toured Australia and New Zealand with The Beach Boys and returned again to the UK and Ireland, where he was so besieged by teenage girls that the Irish police had to halt his performances to pull the girls off him.

After the liberal fraction of the Communist Party of Slovenia was deposed, expansion of the Slovenian highway network came to a halt.

There were no `` casualties '', but the `` guerrillas '' admitted to being `` a little tired '' when the leaders called a halt at 9 A.M. to enable out-of-town members to catch a plane.

At last, however, Marlborough called a halt to the pursuit shortly after midnight near Meldert, from the field.

Instead of ordering his driver to speed away, Heydrich called his car to a halt and attempted to take on the attackers.

Novelty almost matched it in terms of efficiency, but its firebox design caused it to gradually slow to a halt due to a build up of molten ash ( called " clinker ") cutting off the air supply.

He put a halt to chemical spraying and in its place released more than 20, 000 beneficial insects called lacewings to eat the aphids that had infested trees on campus.

The University and College Union accused the University of mismanagement and called for a halt to recruitment.

The agreement called for the implementation of Palestinian self-rule in portions of the West Bank and Gaza Strip over a five year period, along with an immediate halt to and gradual removal of Israeli settlements in those areas.

Haig called a halt to these operations amidst tempestuous weather.

With the advent of the First World War, Emmeline and Christabel called an immediate halt to militant suffrage activism in support of the British government's stand against the " German Peril.

Ruiz faced Otis Tisdale on 10 / 13 / 07 and ended the fight with a TKO victory in the 2nd round as referee Pete Podgorski called a halt to the bout as Tisdale went down for the third time.

Far more common was a duel until either one party was physically unable to fight or the physician called a halt.

The early settlers in the mid-18th century brought cotton to the county, and it remained the main crop until depletion of the soil and boll weevil called the industry to a halt in the 1920s.

After just 71 cars were sold, Hurlock called a halt to production as his health was suffering and the company was struggling in the teeth of a recession.

North Korean forces were engaging in increasing border incursions and infiltration attempts and the 2nd Infantry Division was called upon to help halt these attacks.

Three months later, the exiled leader of the separatist government, Akhmed Zakayev, called for a halt to armed resistance against the Chechen police force starting on 1 August, and said he hoped that " starting with this day Chechens will never shoot at each other ".

When about half the monument had been examined and 53 fragments recovered, the excavation was called to a halt.

Alexander called a halt to the offensive, instructing Montgomery to maintain sufficient activity to pin LXXVI Panzer Corps and prevent troops from being sent across to reinforce XIV Corps facing 5th Army.

" public meeting in Westminster Central Hall, opposite Parliament, at which the speakers Ronald Bell, QC, MP, John Biggs-Davison, MP, Harold Soref, MP, and John Heydon Stokes, MP, ( all club members ) called on the government to halt all immigration, repeal the Race Relations Act, not the separate Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968, and start a full repatriation scheme.

This helped to halt the campaign in its tracks, and the IRA called it off in 1962.

Realizing that the shots directed on Matamoros were having minimal effect, Major Brown called for a halt to firing.

In 2009, the U. S. government abstained from Security Council Resolution 1860, which called for a halt to Israel's military response to Hamas rocket attacks, and the opening of the border crossings into the Gaza Strip.

Although more than 300 firefighters and other emergency workers were called in, firemen were forced to haul heavy equipment, including chemical fire extinguishers, by hand up the tower to halt the fire.

Over the next five days, the brigade advanced a further before a halt was finally called on 26 August 1944.

As the Anzac Mounted Division approached Um Zughla at 02: 00 on 21 December, a halt was called until 03: 30 when the column continued on to El Arish.