standstill
IPA: stˈændstɪɫ
noun
- Complete immobility; halt.
stand still
IPA: stˈændstˈɪɫ
noun
- Obsolete spelling of standstill [Complete immobility; halt.]
verb
- (sometimes figurative) To stop moving, to remain motionless.
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Examples of "standstill" in Sentences
- I like the idea of a standstill.
- The situation goes to a standstill.
- The bilateral relations standstill is in effect.
- The Hartal took the country to a complete standstill.
- The manufacturing of banduras has ground to a standstill.
- Dr. Doomsday has fought the JLA to a standstill in the past.
- Activities in the Netherlands came to a standstill during the war.
- In the songs you mention, there is a standstill in the blues difference.
- For the first two years, the competing archbishops fought to a standstill.
- Eventually the object would come to a standstill at the center of the Earth.
- And it would go up if the economy is brought to a standstill from the loss of undocumented labor.
- Thanksgiving holiday with the announcement that Dubai World would seek a six-month "standstill" - effectively a delay - on repaying some of its debt.
- Thanksgiving holiday with the announcement that Dubai World would seek a "standstill" - effectively a delay - on repaying some of its debts until at least May.
- There is a brokered standstill -- in other words, they're just holding off until the end of the '06 season -- to figure out whether the Saints have their old contract back.
- They both signed a so-called "standstill agreement," which prohibited them from making or publicly announcing bids for 18 months after the auction ended, according to court documents.
- An announcement by Dubai's government on the eve of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday said Dubai World would seek a six-month "standstill" - effectively a delay - on repaying some of its $60 billion in debts.
- Investors have speculated about a potential deal since September when the company signed a short-term standstill agreement with Elliott Associates LP, which forfeited its right to further build its stake in order to enter nonpublic talks with the company.
Examples of "stand-still" in Sentences
- But the real explanation for the stand-still now segueing into room-to-room shuttling is a lot more complicated.
- It means that the work on the ending has come to a stand-still, but soon I'll have something worth showing to an agent.
- The Turkish military will soon find itself at a stand-still without Israeli continued technical support and spare parts.
- Six months since his left knee surgery, Howard is moving around freely without a limp and he looked fine as he shot stand-still jumpers after practice.
- They basically burn the brakes, grinding the movie to a complete stand-still half-way explain how the villain traveling through time has distorted the timeline.
- Validus would "welcome the opportunity to enter into discussions," but the company was unwilling to agree to a stand-still agreement that would force a halt to its hostile takeover efforts, he said.
- During the first 15 years of the NBA, professional basketball evolved from a game dominated by deliberate passing and stand-still shooting to the above-the-rim battles between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain .
- With too many firms chasing too few contracts at too tight margins, construction firms going bust daily, recruitment almost at a stand-still, and hard-pressed survivors cutting their marketing expenditure, it was perhaps inevitable that CJ – so dependent on advertising – would be at risk.
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