Following the 2002 European floods, the Prague system sustained damage, and operation was halted until recently when Czech start up Lime & Tonic revived the Prague pneumatic postal system to integrate their reservations system with their merchants.

This originates from an old European tradition wherein a battle was halted to remove the dead and wounded, then three shots were fired to signal readiness to reengage.

By the time European powers were capable of sending ships to Chinese waters, Chinese isolationism had resulted in these developments being abandoned and forgotten, and construction halted on all but the smallest types of junks so that what they encountered were coastal defence ships comparable to European sloops and not the purported 137-metre-long ( 450 ft ) and 55-metre-wide ( 180 ft ) treasure ships Admiral Zheng He commanded.

This effectively halted European settlement until 1663, when Carolina Colony was chartered by King Charles II.

However, his plans were halted by other European matters and the supremacy of the Royal Navy ( including thousands of Congreve rockets ).

* July 16 – European air traffic is halted due to industrial action by French air traffic controllers.

In 2002, the United Kingdom had halted its ratification process for the Stabilisation and Association Agreement of Croatia with the European Union because of the Croatian government's handling of the Bobetko case.

The work was halted after the European Commission applied for an immediate injunction.

In July 2007 Polish Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński halted work on the bypass after the European Commission applied for an immediate injunction.

The United States and the European Union halted direct aid to the PA, while the US imposed a financial blockade on PA's banks, impeding some of the Arab League's funds ( e. g. Saudi Arabia and Qatar ) from being transferred.

The involvement of Jews in Central European theatre was halted during the rise of the Nazis and the purging of Jews from cultural posts, though many emigrated to Western Europe or the United States and continued working there.

The music video for the single was filmed in Nashville in January, but its distribution was halted due to copyright issues in regards to a previously released clip from a European group.

Mbaya was charged in the incident, but his trial was halted amid requests by Ireland and the European Union for further investigation.

European exports, which had hitherto been managed by local British Leyland affiliates, were either halted or generally slowed down.

The European Championships in 1986 proved to be the last major speed skating event at Bislett, as ice production was halted two years later.

The organized peasant and indigenous based agrarian movements ( i. e. the Via Campesina ) consider that only by changing the export-led, free-trade based, industrial agriculture model of large farms can the downward spiral of poverty, low wages, rural-urban migration, hunger and environmental degradation be halted.

After the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910, Korean migration to the United States was virtually halted.

The area was a magnet for immigrating Japanese until the Exclusion Act of 1924 halted any further migration.

This migration was largely halted by World War I, and new immigration laws in the 1920s limited Italian immigration.

While interrupted by the First World War this migration returned in the 1920s, but again halted during the Great Depression and Second World War.

As an example of the effectiveness of German defenses despite weakness in numbers, the 5th Ranger battalion was halted in its advance inland by a single machine gun position hidden in a hedgerow.

Their success would have halted his inland march and conquest of the Aztec Empire.

However, the Giants ' defense tighened up and halted the drive at the 30-yard line, forcing Denver to settle for Rich Karlis's 48-yard field goal to give them a 3-0 lead.

* 1093: when the Chinese Empress Dowager Gao dies, the conservative faction that had followed Sima Guang is ousted from court, the liberal reforms of Wang Anshi reinstated, and Emperor Zhezong of Song halted all negotiations with the Tanguts of the Western Xia, resuming in armed conflict with them.

In the military context, he sent units forward ostensibly on reconnaissance missions, to later reinforce them when resistance was met and eventually turned small scale probes into all out attacks ; he notably did this during the Battle of Sicily in the advance on Palermo and again in the campaign in northwest Europe, notably near Metz when his 3rd US Army was officially halted during Operation Market Garden.

But heavy Chinese resistance and the geography of the area halted the Jin advance, and they were forced retreat and withdraw, and they had not been able to escape the Song navy when trying to return until they were directed by a Chinese defector who helped them escape in Chenkiang.

Initially the Choctaws were to be transported by wagon but floods halted them.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Germans breached the perimeter near the canal at Bulskamp but the boggy ground on the far side of the canal, with sporadic fire from the Durham Light Infantry, halted them.

In May 2008, both Shueisha and Studio APPP halted manga / OVA shipments of JoJo after a complaint had been launched against them from Egyptian Islamic fundamentalists, after noticing a scene in the OVAs that has the villain, Dio Brando, reading a book depicting pages from the Qur ' an.

Their cavalry turned about ; but while the bulk of them halted within cannon-shot, a minority of them fled.

Opposite to them, both the Saxons, who had suffered high casualties, and the French troops were retreating in complete disorder and halted only towards Raasdorf.

The ronin, on their way back to Sengaku-ji, are halted in the street, to invite them in for rest and refreshment.

It was decided that all offensive actions were to be halted immediately as the French opted to fight a defence war, forcing the Germans to come to them.

Brigadier Lathbury sent out a patrol to investigate, which located the tanks and infantry of XIII Corps that had halted just south of them the previous night.

So to ease their minds, and free them from any superstitious thoughts or forebodings of evil, Timoleon halted, and concluded an address suitable to the occasion, by saying, that a garland of triumph was here luckily brought them, and had fallen into their hands of its own accord, as an anticipation of victory: the same with which the Corinthians crown the victors in the Isthmian games, accounting chaplets of parsley the sacred wreath proper to their country ; parsley being at that time still the emblem of victory at the Isthmian, as it is now at the Nemean sports ; and it is not so very long ago that the pine first began to be used in its place .” “” ( Plutarch, Life of Timoleon ).</ ref > Victors could also be honored with a statue or an ode.

The land was first visited by the Marine Corps in 1816, when a group of Marines traveling by ship to Washington were stopped when their vessel was halted by ice in the Potomac, forcing them to debark and march to the town of Dumfries, Virginia.

Thinking the Greeks in full retreat, Mardonius ordered his forces to pursue them, but the Greeks ( particularly the Spartans, Tegeans and Athenians ) halted and gave battle, routing the lightly armed Persian infantry and killing Mardonius.

Once they reached Tunisia two things halted them.

Created after the death of Primus Myndo Waterly and the Battle of Tukkayid that halted the Clan invasion, it at first received support and refuge from the Free Worlds League, who employed them to control their hyperpulse communications network.

Most of them halted in the cover of Green Hill, west of Scimitar Hill, but Brigadier-General Lord Longford, led his 2nd ( South Midland ) Brigade in a charge over Green Hill and up to the summit of Scimitar Hill.

Over time they passed a number of laws that effectively halted burials in London's churchyards, moving them ' to places where they would be less prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants '.

: The streams called Ice-waves, those which were so long come from the fountain-heads that the yeasty venom upon them had hardened like the slag that runs out of the fire ,- these then became ice ; and when the ice halted and ceased to run, then it froze over above.

They attempt to rob a bank using technology that allows them to walk through walls, but are halted by the arrival of Batman, who was tipped off by Cyborg about their robberies.

He also halted the policy of murdering informants and their families, with a view instead to getting them to retract their testimonies and return to the fold.