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New orders for the planes have ground to a halt.
But not all scientific progress has ground to a halt.
Strikes broke out after ICA's work ground to a halt.
Puerto Rico's economy ground to a halt in the storm.
Public life in America has methodically ground to a halt.
"My life is ground to a halt," Ms. Catlin said.
Germany's economic growth ground to a halt late last year.
The investigation, still in its infancy, ground to a halt.
For many across the region, life ground to a halt.
ZTE's factories ground to a halt, spurring anger from Beijing.
The pace ground to a halt, riddled with foul calls.
The junk bond market ground to a halt in December.
As production ground to a halt, customers scrambled to find alternatives.
Research ground to a halt, but illegal recreational use carried on.
Conversations about Israel-Palestinian final status negotiations ground to a halt.
The convergence between west and east eventually ground to a halt.
Photosynthesis ground to a halt, which meant no more plant growth.
After the 2008 financial crisis, bank mergers ground to a halt.
But on August 3, 2014, these dreams ground to a halt.
Amid the chaos, Libya's economy has basically ground to a halt.
The investigation into DeVry ground to a halt early last year.
Even so, the Senate ground to a halt Thursday when Republican Sen.
And his cautious economic progress has now almost ground to a halt.
Yet negotiations with Russia over the mandate have ground to a halt.
China's crude oil imports from the U.S. had ground to a halt.
Governing by crisis Congress has often fumbled and ground to a halt.
Economic growth of 7.5 percent in 2010 steadily ground to a halt.
Since then, however, Coca-Cola's deal activity has ground to a halt.
However, despite this turmoil, the relationship hasn't exactly ground to a halt.
When the DRA was shut recently Aden's repatriation ground to a halt.
This ground to a halt when the Depression hit France in 1932.
Plans to decarbonize developed economies ground to a halt in many countries.
At that point, our world had not yet ground to a halt.
Matter In September 33, trains in the Netherlands ground to a halt.
The economy has ground to a halt after years of high growth.
Without him, the Hawkeyes' offense more or less ground to a halt.
But Congress' work on Capitol Hill has not ground to a halt.
Offshore and onshore exploration ground to a halt when global prices slumped.
But in recent years, new FiOS investments have practically ground to a halt.
And so was infrastructure—the city ground to a halt under strict curfew.
Global production of aluminum may have ground to a halt but consumption hasn't.
Oil exports, the lifeblood of the OPEC nation's economy, ground to a halt.
As a result, much of Spain's transport infrastructure has ground to a halt.
In the meantime, credit to industry has all but ground to a halt.
Major parts of the US immigration enforcement system have ground to a halt.
Before Robbins took the helm, Cisco's revenue growth had ground to a halt.
Last week, however, "our business pretty much ground to a halt," he said.
The funding and program implementation behind SECURE has now ground to a halt.
But tourism has ground to a halt — gutting hotels, taxis and tour companies.
Making matters worse, waste collection has ground to a halt in most major cities.
In the fourth quarter of 2016, primary checking account growth ground to a halt.
Official research ground to a halt—at least until MAPS picked up the baton.
But the New Orleans zinc round-about appears to have ground to a halt.
Inflation has ground to a halt and many firms remain wary of raising wages.
Just when the club needs it most, though, it has ground to a halt.
Much of the US immigration system has ground to a halt during the stalemate.
For about 10 minutes on Thursday, the paper of record ground to a halt.
Much of corporate Italy has effectively ground to a halt due to the uncertainty.
While House Intelligence Committee members say their probe has ground to a halt, Sens.
Bookings for flights in coming weeks and months have also ground to a halt.
Work also ground to a halt after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Following GST, work ground to a halt and her embroidery machine is gathering dust.
His car ground to a halt, and he surrendered to the officers shortly after.
The commodities market tanked and most construction and engineering building projects ground to a halt.
So it's really, in Asia, a lot of things have just ground to a halt.
A popular Pentagon program to reward immigrant recruits with citizenship has ground to a halt.
Solar installations have ground to a halt since June, after the ITC began its probe.
Fighting had almost ground to a halt on Saturday, with just occasional artillery rounds heard.
" And according to staffers inside the agency, climate change work has "ground to a halt.
Not even in wartime has an economy ground to a halt the way China's did.
Officials are under increasing pressure to revive the economy, which nearly ground to a halt.
For a few hours last Thursday, just about everything at Google ground to a halt.
Venezuela ground to a halt on the second day of an unprecedented nationwide power blackout.
American sports have ground to a halt in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.
Post-Maria recovery essentially ground to a halt last year as federal funds dried up.
Failure would mean even more pain for an economy that's already ground to a halt.
New development deals have ground to a halt at the Trump Organization since the election.
The busy metropolis, so unaccustomed to dealing with this much snow, has ground to a halt.
In 1975, Iceland ground to a halt when a majority of its women went on strike.
Now, according to an earnings report released on Wednesday, user growth has ground to a halt.
Soon after, it ground to a halt and the developer went missing, along with her money.
But when I tried to rattle off a burst of shots, things ground to a halt.
But since 2012 progress has largely ground to a halt as the commodities boom has ended.
Would the labor market absorb millions of demobilized soldiers as military production ground to a halt?
Why have the plans for February's openings ground to a halt immediately after our unionization effort?
Construction has mostly ground to a halt in Greece since the onset of the debt crisis.
Even much of the day-to-day office work at PDVSA has ground to a halt.
Although American politics almost ground to a halt last week because we didn't do The Conversation.
Theaters are shuttered, sporting events have ground to a halt, travel has slowed to a crawl.
Lesli Linka Glatter was supposed to be in Budapest when Hollywood suddenly ground to a halt.
The upshot was that a show once defined by near-constant motion ground to a halt.
Thiel believes economic progress outside of Silicon Valley largely ground to a halt in the 1970s.
This information is dead, as dusty as the machinery that ground to a halt 40 years ago.
But America's admission of refugees from around the world virtually ground to a halt after the Sept.
Traffic ground to a halt in downtown Windsor, where lines for gas stations spilled into gridlocked roadways.
The bread supply chain has ground to a halt on several occasions as traders have boycotted tenders.
U.S. shipments have nearly ground to a halt since the 25 percent tariffs implemented on April 2.
Auto production, which contributes about a quarter of Brazil's industrial output, ground to a halt on Friday.
The discussions ground to a halt after Peabody and a Husky senior vice-president met on Aug.
As she worked to unravel the company's myriad debts and repayments, outgoing cheques ground to a halt.
When snow falls, everything crawls to a halt, with exploration and economic progress ground to a halt.
Some highways have ground to a halt from congestion as evacuees flee the most dangerous hurricane areas.
Fresh start Denuclearization talks essentially ground to a halt within weeks of the June 12 Singapore summit.
The company, enterprise software maker Chef, found that, without the code, its business ground to a halt.
Unemployment stood at 21 percent heading into 2010 after layoffs rose and hiring ground to a halt.
Even Google's efforts in the smartwatch space appear to have sputtered, if not entirely ground to a halt.
But the operation ground to a halt when a truck clearing a route for ambulances came under fire.
But when price growth once again ground to a halt it added negative rates to QQE in January.
And since Republicans took charge of the Senate in 2015, judicial confirmations have virtually ground to a halt.
The French economy has ground to a halt in the second quarter of the year, reporting zero growth.
But when their relationship ended three-and-a-half years later, his sex life ground to a halt.
The same report said traffic on a six-mile stretch of road in Shanghai ground to a halt.
As a result, imports have ground to a halt, creating shortages of goods from fancy cars to sugar.
After James' 3-ball gave the Sooners a 25-22 advantage, though, their offense ground to a halt.
On the "terrible first," wagons piled high with belongings flooded the streets, and trade ground to a halt.
Summer camp for adults and beloved tech-free weekend getaway Camp Grounded ground to a halt in 2017.
In the span of less than a week, the entire Western auto industry effectively ground to a halt.
The economy nearly ground to a halt between August and November due to jitters over the presidential vote.
Somewhere between Forty-ninth Street and Forty-second Street, a signal failed and we ground to a halt.
In the past couple of years, Twitter's user growth has slowed and then practically ground to a halt.
But construction ground to a halt in 1993 due to famine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Public transport ground to a halt and restaurants closed their doors, said Mario Rodriguez Casasnovas, a spokesman for Coparmex.
Travel in the US had ground to a halt, but Diller thought it would come back, and it did.
Republicans' seven-year quest to repeal Obamacare ground to a halt at 270:2700 am on Friday when Sen.
Its sales ground to a halt, its supply chain was disrupted, and banks and trading platforms turned their backs.
Earlier this week, much of the internet ground to a halt when the servers that power them suddenly vanished.
Among dogs, this evolutionary pressure for intra-species cooperation has ground to a halt, and it's starting to show.
That economic boom ground to a halt in 2014 when ISIS began its brutal conquest of Iraq and Syria.
Although markets have not ground to a halt, activity so far in the third quarter has not been robust.
But at restaurants and barbershops, things have ground to a halt without warning, and that business is lost forever.
Uber and Lyft, hit hard in recent weeks as the world has slowly ground to a halt, fell today.
Friday: What did it sound like as one of the busiest cities in the U.S. ground to a halt?
The Yemen war's fourth cease-fire began on April 10, and their offensive ground to a halt last year.
Budget talks between Democrats and Republicans ground to a halt over the weekend in a dispute over immigration policy.
Despite nearly three years of aggressive money printing, inflation has ground to a halt on weak consumption and exports.
One possible reason: Amazon had little competition for the Kindle, so innovation in e-readers ground to a halt.
Too many components had degraded or been replaced, and all of a sudden the mechanism ground to a halt.
But the sheer difficulty of having any debate at all illustrates why the Senate has ground to a halt.
However, negotiations have since ground to a halt with Washington demanding tangible steps and Pyongyang asking for U.S. concessions first.
And without a user base to support further AR app development, momentum for the whole platform ground to a halt.
Look no further than the cities of Atlanta and Baltimore, whose online operations ground to a halt after ransomware takeovers.
Talks aimed at resolving the conflict have ground to a halt ahead of Ukraine's presidential and parliamentary elections next year.
All soy crushing units had ground to a halt in Brazil because of lack of supplies, industry group Abiove said.
That diplomacy appears to have ground to a halt because of the reluctance of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to engage.
Thousands remain homeless, the vast majority of residents still have no power, and the economy has ground to a halt.
Local reports indicated surge-pricing for alternatives like Uber had increased dramatically as public-transit service ground to a halt.
At that moment — Tuesday night for France and Belgium; Wednesday for England and Croatia — whole cities ground to a halt.
Last year, inflation rose and business investment ground to a halt; from underwear to automobiles, sales of consumer products slowed.
Ecuador's economy ground to a halt last year after growing, on average, 4 percent or more from 2006 to 2014.
As Vox's Dylan Matthews has explained, the first few shutdowns didn't actually mean the federal government ground to a halt.
He gets paid a salary, but business has ground to a halt and he's worried he might be laid off.
The normally brisk sorghum trade between the two countries has ground to a halt as tensions mount between Washington and Beijing.
In short, this is not the organization you want ground to a halt as a result of a ransomware-fueled cyberattack.
Corporate decision-making eventually ground to a halt and the warring co-owners turned to the courts to break the deadlock.
Estonia joined the European Union in 20143 and the euro zone in 22014; Moldova's EU candidacy has ground to a halt.
Copper prices retreated as a rally on hopes that President-elect Donald Trump will boost infrastructure spending ground to a halt.
Senate Republicans are struggling to unite behind a plan to fund the government after budget talks have ground to a halt.
Highlighting the fragility of Japan's economy, growth in the country's industrial output ground to a halt in July after June's gains.
All imports from what had been the country's four-largest supplier of raw material ground to a halt in October 2017.
For instance, EchoGuides saw its business ground to a halt when the conditions made it too dangerous to visit lava areas.
After the train ground to a halt, Ms. Brick, who was traveling with Beckie Bintrim, 32, of Brooklyn, surveyed their surroundings.
In Venezuela, six mega-projects being built by Odebrecht have ground to a halt, including an expansion of the Caracas subway.
The company is still highly profitable, but its growth has ground to a halt as consumers continue to abandon pay television.
Beyond sharing video chat happy hour screenshots and quarantine dinner concoctions, our piece-by-piece biographies have ground to a halt.
Many construction projects have ground to a halt in recent months as credit evaporates amid soaring inflation and the sliding lira.
NAFTA talks ground to a halt in late May in the run-up to the presidential election in Mexico on July 1.
Then, after energy-efficiency codes fell under the agreement between the code council and the homebuilders, that momentum ground to a halt.
Sater was driving into Manhattan one fall morning when traffic ground to a halt on a ramp to the Queens–Midtown Tunnel.
But it did not have the capital to keep the mines running and the operations ground to a halt, with assets removed.
While home construction ground to a halt in 2009, it rebounded strongly afterward and permits for another 81,000 were filed through 2015.
New orders of the planes have ground to a halt but Boeing has a backlog of more than 4,000 737 Max aircraft.
Talks for this have ground to a halt with each side accusing the other of not being willing negotiate in good faith.
An investment programme set up so global funds can raise Chinese cash to invest overseas has ground to a halt without explanation.
They were so noisy that the House's work ground to a halt as state troopers worked to get the protesters under control.
Japan's economic growth ground to a halt in April-June as weak exports and shaky domestic demand prompted companies to cut spending.
Trade with Iraqi Kurdistan ground to a halt when the federal government in Baghdad reacted furiously to an independence referendum in September.
Lending to Nigerian oil and gas companies ground to a halt before the redeterminations and resizing of reserve-based loans in April.
That plan ground to a halt when she moved back to Maryland, where she grew up, to take care of her mother.
Since his entire industry has ground to a halt, Bocken fears for his future and the United States' millions of service workers.
With the border now closed on orders from Moscow, this has all ground to a halt, leaving the city frozen in limbo.
At almost the same time as when the attack was first reported to police, Christchurch ground to a halt for two minutes.
The numbers follow underwhelming PMI data on Friday, which showed business growth in the eurozone almost ground to a halt in November.
Yet everything ground to a halt during the game's final boss, an infuriating sequence that left an awful taste in my mouth.
Last summer, Oakland's pot regulation process ground to a halt due to squabbles over a proposal that aimed to help black entrepreneurs.
China's crude oil imports from the United States ground to a halt as a trade war between the two countries escalated this year.
The government refuses to release casualty figures, but in December the offensive ground to a halt as commanders waited for reinforcements to arrive.
But this is when anti-Trump delegates erupted in protest, chanting, "Dump Trump," and, "Roll call vote," and proceedings ground to a halt.
Job growth ground to a halt in February, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by just 20,000 even as the unemployment fell to 3.8 percent.
Hirscher lost control after a tight series of turns, his right ski flying high in the air, and he ground to a halt.
Production at the Hobart factory on the island state of Tasmania ground to a halt late on Tuesday after computer systems went down.
Cybersecurity protections Central components of the nation's cybersecurity infrastructure have ground to a halt as the Department of Homeland Security has gone unfunded.
As Mr. Obama's first term unfolded, the effort to close the prison ground to a halt as Congress imposed steep restrictions on transfers.
But all of that work ground to a halt as the focus abruptly turned to the Graham-Cassidy plan to repeal the ACA.
Much of the capital, Harare, and other cities ground to a halt this month as Zimbabweans stayed home to protest the deteriorating economy.
Over 10,000 homes in the Aude and neighboring Hérault area lost power, many schools were closed and public transportation ground to a halt.
Auditioning has mostly ground to a halt, although some is taking place by video, and television and film production has also largely stopped.
When a journalist pointed out to him on Thursday that the economy had all but ground to a halt, Trump cut him off.
When a journalist pointed out to him on Thursday that the economy had all but ground to a halt, Trump cut him off.
Last month, Mr. Trump signed an executive order to resume the refugee resettlement program, which had virtually ground to a halt in June.
The company has been hit hard by the economic fallout of the coronavirus as travel has ground to a halt around the world.
The biggest economy in Europe ground to a halt right before the coronavirus outbreak set in, dragged down by the country's struggling factories.
New York airports ground to a halt in winter storm, which brought high winds and snow, snarling air travel from Maine to Florida.
And as I wrote then, the discussion also revealed Zuckerberg's thinking as worryingly underdeveloped: Is that why these discussions ground to a halt?
The process ground to a halt under Mr. Zelensky's predecessor, but resolving the conflict was a major campaign pledge of the new president.
The United States refugee resettlement program virtually ground to a halt at the end of June as a result of the travel ban.
PRICE HIKES A DRAG Japan's economy ground to a halt in July-September last year as the U.S.-China trade war hurt exports.
Unfortunately, eleven months after the deadline passed, the rulemaking process has ground to a halt, and the government refuses to explain the standstill.
Eleven lives were lost and communities around the Gulf of Mexico ground to a halt under hundreds of millions of gallons of oil.
She moved to New York in 1954, at the height of gestural Ab Ex machismo, and her promising career ground to a halt.
Oi filed its petition with the court on June 20 after talks with creditors ground to a halt ahead of a July debt payment.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters on Wednesday that the legislative process had "pretty much ground to a halt" amid the tumult in Washington.
Real estate activity has largely ground to a halt, as can be seen in the paucity of transactions in both residential and commercial markets.
It appears the park went silent, as many attractions ground to a halt and other landscape features such as fountains and music speakers stopped.
But you can see that it plummeted back in 2008, when the economy basically ground to a halt when the financial system nearly collapsed.
The PKK abandoned a two-year ceasefire in July 2015 after peace talks had ground to a halt, and violence has escalated sharply since.
Daily life ground to a halt as the Black Death spread along medieval trade routes, claiming an estimated 20 million lives with ruthless efficiency.
The SPD vote will be a relief to investors who worry that policymaking, both at home and in Europe, has ground to a halt.
Production at the Cadbury factory on the Australian island state of Tasmania ground to a halt late on Tuesday after computer systems went down.
The metaphor finally came full circle this week when its gears and spools finally ground to a halt, as Maeve noisily slammed it closed.
Sites buckled, services broke, images wouldn't load, direct messages ground to a halt and calendars and email were unavailable for hours at a time.
Instead, business activity ground to a halt as millions of people hunkered down and travel restrictions were placed on more than half the country.
Sports ground to a halt in the past few weeks because of social distancing rules and the ban on large gatherings, like in stadiums.
China's crude oil imports from the United States ground to a halt in October as this year's trade war between the two countries escalated.
Parts manufacturing has also ground to a halt with U.S.-based Deere & Co and Brazil's Jacto suspending operations at their Brazilian factories this week.
But her business has ground to a halt, as a result of the shelter in place policy aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus.
Experts fear that factories across the globe could ground to a halt if many of the plants across China remain closed this coming week.
New restrictions have made it close to impossible to send cars from the state overseas, and a busy industry has ground to a halt.
Manufacturing and construction in some places have slowed or ground to a halt, and air travel throughout the country has decreased by 70 percent.
London (CNN Business)The UK economy ground to a halt in the three months leading up to the end of October, official data show.
This has, the ads say, left the machinery of Congress ground to a halt while urgent problems such as healthcare and immigration go neglected.
The downtrend in LME stocks has ground to a halt in the last month or so after time-spreads briefly flared out in May.
The 'productivity miracle' which ex-Fed chairman Alan Greenspan used to mention dropping dramatically and corporate cap-ex ground to a halt in some cases.
France's foie gras production has ground to a halt for the next three months, but the reason behind the ban probably isn't what you think.
The violence also hammered East Africa's biggest economy as regional trade ground to a halt and tourists, the biggest source of foreign exchange, canceled holidays.
But the tunnel economy collapsed in 2013 after Egypt cracked down, and in the five years since, Gaza's economy has basically ground to a halt.
The market for high-yield bonds and loans, the lifeblood of buyout deals, has almost ground to a halt, as banks struggle to sell them.
Traffic ground to a halt in parts of central Cairo on Wednesday morning as Sisi travelled to open the bridge with ministers and military generals.
Chinese imports of U.S. oilseeds fell sharply last year and ground to a halt in November, while shipments from Brazil jumped from the previous year.
Insiders admit that the government is near bankruptcy, after years of burning up savings, and that the economy has all but ground to a halt.
Construction ground to a halt last year when arrangements for a syndicated loan got snagged on concerns about a graft inquiry into Odebrecht in Brazil.
"The longer I did hard drugs, the less I wrote until it ground to a halt and all I did was get loaded," he admits.
The market for high-yield bonds and loans, the lifeblood of buyout deals, has almost ground to a halt as banks struggle to sell them.
Turkey's 12-year-long accession talks have ground to a halt, with the EU especially critical of Ankara's crackdown following a failed coup last year.
Traffic ground to a halt in parts of central Cairo on Wednesday morning as Sisi traveled to open the bridge with ministers and military generals.
The foreclosure machine that ground to a halt in Puerto Rico after the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in September is slowly cranking up again.
Subway service between Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan ground to a halt on Sunday after a transformer near Jay Street briefly failed, according to Con Edison.
"The wheels of the economy that made the Philippines one of the fastest growing economies in the region have ground to a halt" Mapa said.
Professional sports around the world ground to a halt last week as the coronavirus pandemic prompted one country after another to ban large public gatherings.
But Russia closed the border with China, and Blogoveshchensk, which staked its future on a closer economic relationship with China, has ground to a halt.
But often you're subjected to tedious, drawn out scenes that go on too long with the plot seemingly ground to a halt or needlessly obscured.
On Hapur Road, which is lined with slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants, economic activity had ground to a halt within days of Mr. Adityanath's swearing-in.
Combined with the government's shortsighted fiscal policy and overreliance on imports that it can't afford to keep up, the economy has ground to a halt.
Brands from Burberry to Estee Lauder are shutting stores and cutting profit forecasts as business in the industry's biggest market has virtually ground to a halt.
Image: GettyA little after 23pm on Tuesday, countless websites and web services ground to a halt following a reported widespread outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
"The very weak May Japanese industrial production suggests Japanese second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) ground to a halt or may have contracted," the analysts said.
LONDON — Galactica, the UK's first virtual reality rollercoaster, gave passengers an even more unique experience Monday when it ground to a halt halfway round the track.
Latin America's third-largest economy ground to a halt yesterday as labor unions walked off the job to challenge center-right President Mauricio Macri's austerity measures.
Meanwhile, data showed the Italian economy had ground to a halt in the third quarter as both domestic demand and trade flows failed to spur growth.
On July 13rd, people in the village of Duraz, Bahrain began having serious internet problems — mobile networks ground to a halt and landline connections were unusable.
It was some rare good news in a gross domestic product report showing the economy ground to a halt due to weak exports and capital expenditure.
That worked until traffic — perhaps made even worse than usual because of Mr. Trump's motorcade — ground to a halt at 37th Street, along with Julie's cab.
This was the week when sports ground to a halt, and it happened so quickly that the mind could barely keep straight the sequence of events.
United States immigration courts are still open for business, even in parts of the country, like San Francisco, where life has otherwise ground to a halt.
The country largely ground to a halt over the weekend because of a lack of fuel — a shortage that Mr. Maduro has blamed the sanctions for.
But some people have been laid off or have seen their hours cut over the past two weeks as typical economic activity ground to a halt.
Gross domestic product growth slumped from 7% to 6% in the six months after the ban as several sectors of the economy ground to a halt.
But some people have been laid off or have seen their hours cut over the past two weeks as typical economic activity ground to a halt.
At Mondelez International, a giant maker of snacks, thousands of servers and computers were rendered useless and production lines at some factories ground to a halt.
China normally accounts for about 79% of Malaysia's frozen durian exports, but trade has ground to a halt in recent weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak.
China normally accounts for about 79% of Malaysia's frozen durian exports, but trade has ground to a halt in recent weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak.
I was in the Office of Legislative Affairs — but all legislative work had ground to a halt with President Bill Clinton facing impeachment in the House.
A few weeks after starting work, Mr. Hajj was heading to the restaurant when the subway ground to a halt: part of the line was down.
Indeed, property developers and realtors are turning to virtual reality salesrooms, livestream marketing and generous incentives but the market has all but ground to a halt.
Car sales growth in China ground to a halt last year as the economy expanded at its slowest pace in 25 years and the stock market slumped.
Earlier on Monday, data showed that growth in Brazilian manufacturing activity slowed to its weakest pace in ten months and virtually ground to a halt in May.
More than 60% of awards have gone to environmental projects by federal, state and municipal governments, though awards have ground to a halt since Bolsonaro took office.
"This is symptomatic of an industry that has realized that growth in smartphones has ground to a halt," Richard Windsor, an independent analyst, said in a note.
China has discussed a recurring property tax for years, but public progress on the initiative ground to a halt after a very limited pilot scheme in 2011.
For the past three weeks, the Senate ground to a halt as Kavanaugh was subjected to the most intense, most exhaustive judicial confirmation hearing in American history.
Its development ground to a halt in 2014 after ISIS emerged in nearby areas, putting an end to a nearly 10-year economic boom in the region.
That person would have to argue that the Republicans and Democrats are just two sides of a Washington-centric power structure that has ground to a halt.
With many workers laid off, the economy has ground to a halt and people feel justifiably afraid for their health, their financial security, and for their future.
The restaurant industry has ground to a halt across much of the country, with businesses being ordered to shutter entirely and social distancing keeping people at home.
However, the League had been polling as high as 24 percent earlier this year, suggesting its momentum had ground to a halt following months of surging popularity.
In addition, many of those companies are experiencing deep losses in world markets, and in western Europe and the United States, business has ground to a halt.
The province, which is home to more than 10 million migrant workers, remains shut off from the rest of China, and business has ground to a halt.
Some state officials who had collaborated with the Education Department in bringing legal cases against for-profit schools say their joint work has ground to a halt.
But the industry has suddenly ground to a halt after becoming an unexpected target in President Trump's crackdown on states that hamper efforts to deport undocumented immigrants.
The principal beneficiary was Hussein, who wasted no time in repaying Washington by invading and annexing Kuwait soon after his war with Iran ground to a halt.
Car sales growth in China ground to a halt last year as the economy expanded at the slowest pace in 25 years while the stock market slumped.
The evacuation ground to a halt on Friday after demands from pro-government forces that people also be moved out of two Shi'ite villages besieged by insurgents.
TFG has been hunting for assets in Britain and Australia as growth in its home market ground to a halt amid political turmoil and weak consumer sentiment.
It ended up paying too much for companies with mediocre drugs, and its merger conveyor ground to a halt, leaving it teetering under a huge debt load.
After McConnell became majority leader, following that November's elections, judicial nominations all but ground to a halt, with McConnell confirming barely a quarter of Obama's court picks.
But their efforts ground to a halt a week after Romero landed in Port Isabel, when he was told to pack up and get ready to move.
With the virus still spreading rapidly from its epicenter of Wuhan, much of China has effectively ground to a halt as businesses suspend operations and people remain indoors.
After the cliff collapsed on February 2nd, the satanic waterfall ground to a halt, but magma from the Kilauea volcano was still leaking into the ocean from below.
Most analysts expect the BOJ to ease further this month, with economic growth having ground to a halt and inflation sliding further away from its 2 percent target.
Until recently, China had been taking about 40 percent of US paper, plastics, and other recyclables, but this trans-Pacific waste route has now ground to a halt.
After falling nearly 1,000 feet, the elevator ground to a halt near the 11th floor, and the traumatized passengers were able to call the fire department for help.
China also resumed the QDII scheme in April after a three-year suspension, but it ground to a halt again in July, as the yuan started to slide.
Things may have ground to a halt in Congress over these past eight years, but that doesn't mean that legislators have stopped making new policy or passing laws.
But the effort has ground to a halt in the Senate, where GOP leaders do not even have the votes to bring legislation repealing ObamaCare to the floor.
Growth in Saudi Arabia's non-oil economy, meanwhile, has almost ground to a halt, increasing pressure on the government to stimulate activity and rein in unpopular austerity policies.
But Cleaning supplies company Clorox and personal hygiene products manufacturer Kimberly-Clark shuttered their operations as their facilities nearly ground to a halt for lack of raw materials.
Much of that work has ground to a halt in countries that have locked down, urging citizens to stay at home and avoid close contact with other people.
And then, a few hours later, everything was quiet on the Hill, except for the strange vestiges of business-as-usual that hadn't yet ground to a halt.
Growth virtually ground to a halt in the fourth quarter last year and recent data shows that economic activity so far this year has been sluggish at best.
At the extreme, I have had several apps open — including two different browsers with a dozen or so tabs open in each — and nothing ground to a halt.
New York (CNN Business)Trading briefly ground to a halt at the Chicago Stock Exchange on Thursday because of a technical glitch at the 136-year-old venue.
In 21963 he was drafted into the Russian Army to fight in World War I. By 221 the Russian Empire's war effort had largely ground to a halt.
An Algericas terminal operated by APM, which belongs to the Maersk Group, had ground to a halt on Monday as there were no ships, a port spokeswoman said.
Negotiations on this so-called 'suspension mechanism' have ground to a halt, denting the hopes for visa-free travel to the EU of another former Soviet republic, Georgia.
Historic buildings came crashing down, glitzy shopping malls popped up and traffic ground to a halt; in the meantime, his wife, a construction magnate, became the country's richest woman.
The government hopes the new process and modified contractual terms for offshore exploration will boost its long-stagnant oil sector, which ground to a halt when global prices slumped.
While deal making outside the United States almost ground to a halt at the start of 2016, acquisitions in North American shale basins have continued at a steady pace.
"  Meanwhile, in Germany, according to a recent article by Bloomberg columnist Leonid Bershidsky, wind turbines have become so unpopular that their construction "has all but ground to a halt.
Immigrant investor regional centers that support foreign investment have been closed, and the E-Verify system employers use to ensure new hires have legal standing ground to a halt.
Between the years 2007 and 2010, as the economy ground to a halt and Iraq burned, millennials learned en masse that their authority figures had been corrupt and dishonest.
African governments designated as frontier markets have been keen issuers on international capital markets in recent years, though the momentum has ground to a halt amid soaring borrowing costs.
The lab's operations, headquartered in a nondescript five-story building a few miles from the Kremlin, have mostly ground to a halt since global antidoping authorities decertified the facility.
Trade talks between the United States and China nearly ground to a halt this past week, and a seemingly intractable dispute over subsidies is a big part of it.
But the COVID-19 pandemic has ground to a halt many industries, and there are even warnings that this will affect the next two quarters in regards to fundraising.
Then there are less quantifiable tolls: Local businesses in 2017 said sales dropped by 40 percent as foot and car traffic ground to a halt behind barricades and checkpoints.
Labour had been gaining progressively in the polls until last week, mainly at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, but that narrowing gap has since ground to a halt.
New York (CNN Business)America's once-robust imports of crude oil from Venezuela have ground to a halt because of Trump administration sanctions and chaos gripping the OPEC nation.
"External demand and consumption aren't very strong, so economic growth may have ground to a halt in the first quarter," said Takeshi Minami, chief economist at Norinchukin Research Institute.
The Saudis wagered that low oil prices would flush high-cost U.S. drillers out of the market, setting up a recovery as the shale revolution ground to a halt.
But, largely due to a slowing of notice and comment rulemaking processes across the entirety of government, the Monograph system has become cumbersome and essentially ground to a halt.
"It was careening in, bashing in to the stalls," he said of the large, black, Scania truck that eventually ground to a halt, Christmas decorations protruding from its smashed windscreen.
So the idea the US' massive military-industrial complex will be ground to a halt by the cost of paying for a few thousand soldiers' heath care is beyond trite.
Amazon Just Broke the InternetPhoto: GettyA little after 1pm on Tuesday, countless websites and web services ground to a halt following a reported widespread outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Struggling to make its way through the steep, rugged mountain roads in the gloom, the minibus briefly ground to a halt and had to be pushed onwards by helping hands.
But while the world ground to a halt on Thursday at 4pm, in the midst of all that excitement, there's a few key details you may have missed out on.
A pick-up in consumption is crucial to the success of the central bank's massive monetary stimulus program aimed at accelerating inflation, now ground to a halt, to 2 percent.
But the project ground to a halt when members of parliament refused to debate COLLIBE's proposals, according to Shams, which was one of the civil liberties groups advising the commission.
But overall, gun-violence research has essentially ground to a halt while gun-rights advocates and gun-control advocates fight each other instead of fighting the problem of gun violence.
Talks to unify rival camps launched in September 2017, shortly after Salame took up his post, ground to a halt after one month with Haftar's role a key sticking point.
However, trading in bonds ground to a halt after Washington imposed a swathe of sanctions, including a ban on U.S. investors from trading in the secondary market, other than divestment.
Unable to access customer records or to compile passenger lists ahead of aircraft take-offs to meet security requirements, the entire airline ground to a halt for about five hours.
Erik Storm's EcoGuides business, which conducts tours of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, ground to a halt a month ago when volcanic conditions made it too dangerous to visit lava areas.
A CNN review of the latest airline-related data gives a clearer picture of how air travel has ground to a halt, a result of isolation measures around the country.
Soccer has virtually ground to a halt across the continent in recent days, with several top-flight domestic leagues having to suspend matches as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
In China, most businesses ground to a halt in January as the government worked to contain the outbreak, which has sickened tens of thousands of people and killed over 3,000.
Molly Worthen LATE one night this spring, Justin Snider, an assistant dean at Columbia University, was riding the uptown No. 2 in Manhattan when the train ground to a halt.
Conditions continued to ease in China, where the authorities lifted some citywide lockdowns and the country struggled to revive major segments of the economy that had ground to a halt.
Germany, the biggest economy in Europe and number four in the world, ground to a halt right before the coronavirus outbreak set in, dragged down by the country's struggling factories.
A skeletal staff working at HUD is scrambling to find funding to renew some of the expired assistance contracts, but essentially the program has ground to a halt, experts said.
The White Sox had ripped off four consecutive victories before their offense ground to a halt, managing only one run and five hits in each of their last two setbacks.
Last year, the treatment at the nation's hospitals almost ground to a halt when doctors and nurses went on strike for months due to low pay and poor working conditions.
Still, it is undeniable that if Berry were a modern musician who was sent to jail for sexual impropriety with a minor, his career would have deservedly ground to a halt.
A senior CMS official showed Reuters WhatsApp messages that flooded in when the system ground to a halt under the weight of database searches, which totaled 20 million on election day.
Photo: AP"We are dealing with a hostage situation," Atlanta's Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told reporters this week as her government, the target of a malicious cyberattack, ground to a halt.
For example, the ceasefire in Hodeidah, a vital port city in western Yemen that the Houthis have controlled since 2014, is falling apart, and the economy has ground to a halt.
China has been discussing a recurring property tax for years, but public progress on the initiative ground to a halt after a very limited pilot scheme was rolled out in 2011.
Futures indicate that Wall Street was set to open higher, a turnaround for global equities after a disappointing day in Asia, where four consecutive days of gains ground to a halt.
Mahdi's moderate Islamic Umma party is among opposition groups who have been pressing for a transition to civilian rule in talks with the TMC that ground to a halt last month.
The Hawks weren't going to change the way they play—Howard wasn't going to be spoon-fed the ball while the offense that Budenholzer had meticulously built ground to a halt.
Here are some of the key takeaways from the report:Growth in social commerce adoption has ground to a halt in recent years due to concerns about the channel's safety and legitimacy.
Senators are lashing out at each other in an increasingly public blame game about who is responsible for the chamber's legislative agenda, which has largely ground to a halt this year.
The brighter outlook among consumers, France's traditional growth engine, will reassure the government after official data confirmed the euro zone's second-largest economy ground to a halt in the second quarter.
Her piece begins: Late one night this spring, Justin Snider, an assistant dean at Columbia University, was riding the uptown No. 215 in Manhattan when the train ground to a halt.
Parts of the metro system ground to a halt as skirmishes spread to the subway, with television showing images of people being beaten as they cowered on the floor behind umbrellas.
But approvals of new deeds for these properties have virtually ground to a halt in recent years as Brazil's economy went through a deep recession and Incra faced severe budget cuts.
For several weeks, Trump has refused to back off his demands for $5.7 billion in border wall funds, and recently, negotiations between Trump and Democratic leaders had ground to a halt.
Bond issues from Russia used to be common but they ground to a halt in 2014, when the confrontation between Russia and the West over Ukraine caused investors to take fright.
A bid to enter the highly competitive London market in September ground to a halt when transport regulators there denied it a license to operate, a decision it hopes to reverse.
The latest warning sign came Tuesday, when the British Chambers of Commerce said a survey of 7,000 businesses indicates that economic growth "nearly ground to a halt" in the first quarter.
In the worst-hit western cities, business has all but ground to a halt at a time when the OPEC nation of 30 million is already suffering hyperinflation and a profound recession.
Activities across Asia-Pacific to search for energy resources have nearly ground to a halt in the past year while recent exploration finds have struck more natural gas than oil, analysts said.
Operations at more than 700 companies in Beijing ground to a halt on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports, and more than 200 flights out of the capital's international airport have been cancelled.
A weekend that begun brightly for Haas with a strong qualifying turned sour during the race when Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen ground to a halt in quick succession before the halfway mark.
Image: RocheAs 2016 draws to a close, two of what started out as this year's most promising new cancer therapies have ground to a halt amidst patient deaths during the experimental treatments.
Auto production, which contributes about a quarter of Brazil's industrial output, ground to a halt on Friday in the latest blow to a fragile economic recovery following the worst downturn in decades.
However, trading in PDVSA bonds almost ground to a halt after Washington imposed a swathe of sanctions, including a ban on U.S. investors from trading in the secondary market, other than divestment.
In Escambia County, Florida, at the western end of the Panhandle, recycling ground to a halt in October when the company that processed its waste abruptly closed down, citing low scrap prices.
Before that, production at domestic assembly plants ground to a halt for a week in February after an explosion at one of the automaker's steel suppliers led to a shortage of parts.
Either way, unable to access customer records or to compile passenger lists ahead of aircraft take-offs to meet security requirements, the entire airline ground to a halt for around five hours.
The roof of a factory in Xiangyang, also in Hubei province, collapsed, trapping five people, and traffic in the city ground to a halt, according to the state broadcaster, China National Radio.
Turkey's offensive in Syria has ground to a halt at al-Bab and after Erdoğan's apology to Putin for shooting down the Russian plane, it is clear Russia has the upper hand.
Progress hasn't ground to a halt, but both Blade Runner films zero in on the impoverished underclass and enslaved replicants who don't benefit from a new economy driven by off-world colonies.
Trump and Obama spoke separately of the conflict after efforts to evacuate civilians from the city of Aleppo ground to a halt on Friday after weeks of bombardments by the Syrian army.
Euro zone business growth almost ground to a halt this month as activity in the bloc's dominant services industry increased at a much weaker pace than expected, a survey showed on Friday.
His fundraising ground to a halt, leading to a second quarter in which he raised just $3.6 million -- much less than he'd brought in during his first 24 hours as a candidate.
Central Moscow ground to a halt, an impromptu street party that some compared to the celebrations at the end of World War II. From Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, the nation was in thrall.
Until the sports world ground to a halt last week over the coronavirus outbreak, perhaps the biggest issue looming over professional sports in the United States was the Houston Astros' cheating scandal.
The debate over whether to pause market trading has intensified over the past two weeks, as much of the economy has ground to a halt to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, between terrorist attacks, a failed coup attempt and what many experts say was unsustainable borrowing, cronyism and huge public works projects with little economic return, Turkey's economy ground to a halt.
Last year, when the United States briefly prohibited American companies from selling technology to the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE for violating sanctions against Iran and North Korea, ZTE ground to a halt.
But that ground to a halt last year as the trade war broke out between the two countries, leading Beijing to boost effective tariffs on imports of U.S. denatured ethanol to 203%.
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The committee's investigation has effectively ground to a halt after Nunes went to the White House last week with information of potential surveillance of Trump's aides, without telling Democrats on the committee first.
The dollar remained on the back foot following Thursday's GDP data that showed the U.S. economy virtually ground to a halt in the first quarter, expanding at only at 0.5 percent annualised pace.
"Research on the suspected links between sugar and chronic disease largely ground to a halt by the late 21970s, and scientists came to view such pursuits as a career dead end," they wrote.
But growth seems to have ground to a halt (GDP rose by a miserable 0.4% at an annualised rate in the last quarter of 2018) and household debt is at a record high.
Prelimary data last month showed Latin America's second largest economy grew by about 2.5 percent in 2015, helped by consumer spending even as industrial expansion ground to a halt in the fourth quarter.
The UK's National Health Service, Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica, and Russia's Internal Affairs Ministry, as well as other notable targets across the world, ground to a halt in the face of the attack.
Production at the Cadbury factory on the island state of Tasmania ground to a halt late on Tuesday after computer systems went down, said Australian Manufacturing and Workers Union state secretary John Short.
UL was meant to build an 23.5-km (seven-mile) bridge in the town - the longest in the South American country - in 216 but the project ground to a halt a year ago.
Rystad Energy, a consulting firm, said that supply of oil worldwide would exceed demand by about three million barrels a day in April as air travel and other transportation ground to a halt.
Bipartisan negotiators also reached an agreement in principle on a $350 billion forgivable loan package for small businesses that would be designed to keep employees paid even as business ground to a halt.
Right before the deadly coronavirus outbreak set in, Germany's economy ground to a halt — setting up the country for a tough 2020 just when it was meant to be kicking into recovery mode.
The biggest move in the other direction is Wyoming, which plunges 14 spots to No. 27 after the state's resource-rich economy practically ground to a halt last year amid low commodity prices.
The petition for bankruptcy protection from Oi, Brazil's fourth-biggest mobile provider, and six subsidiaries came after talks with creditors ground to a halt earlier this month ahead of a July debt payment.
After being compared to Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs), which earned significant notoriety – a bad reputation – due to the defaulted mortgages they held, leading to the financial crisis, CLO issuance ground to a halt.
The British economy ground to a halt in the three months leading up to the end of October, and growth for 2019 as a whole is expected to slump to just over 1%.
Her father eventually started paying his boss a bribe rather than show up for work — with the economy broken, all industry had ground to a halt, so there wasn't much to do anyway.
LONDON (Reuters) - World trade growth has ground to a halt as the commodity price slump hits economic growth in emerging markets and with it their demand for imported industrial equipment, supplies and consumer goods.
The Norwegian economy, once one of Europe's brightest, ground to a halt in late 2015, leaving full-year growth at its lowest in six years and consumer confidence at its lowest in 24 years.
The blast is being treated as a terrorist attack and has reportedly left hundreds of attendees, many of them children and teenagers, stranded in the city center as train services ground to a halt.
This would represent a gain for Moscow in Syria as its military advances have ground to a halt in other parts of the country, and would assert its influence over a U.S.-controlled area.
Research on the collection ground to a halt while the children's museum negotiated with China, but now that it's back with its rightful owners, the collection has been made available for renewed scientific inquiry.
Italy's gross domestic product ground to a halt in the third quarter and the difficulties of the banking sector are fuelling concerns that tighter credit could put a further brake on Italy's slowing economy.
But the stoppage could impact the market at a time when the two biggest copper mines, Escondida in Chile and Grasberg in Indonesia, have both declared force majeure after production ground to a halt.
Rather like when the British rail system ground to a halt because of the wrong type of snow, the American health care system apparently is beset by the wrong type of patients: ill ones.
The timing is particularly noteworthy given that it comes as nearly every aspect of the President's political and business life is under investigation, and substantive congressional policy making has practically ground to a halt.
In the moments before O. J. Simpson was cleared of murder charges in the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend 21 years ago today, life in the U.S. ground to a halt.
CASH-STRAPPED Yet many of the company's projects in Venezuela ground to a halt even before the Odebrecht scandal exploded, likely due to lack of payment from the cash-strapped socialist government, sources said.
The last person put to death in California was in 2006, and the state's system of administering capital punishment ground to a halt soon after when a court ruling outlawed its lethal injection protocols.
Even as the Hubei authorities urged caution, they also made clear their desire to restart the economies of the province and China more broadly, which essentially ground to a halt during the coronavirus outbreak.
"Forty years on, many brands had ground to a halt in terms of increasing market share, and that's where the business stands today — the biggest beer companies aren't selling more beer," Mr. Kashper said.
The move against G.M. comes as Venezuela's auto industry has nearly ground to a halt amid the political instability, currency issues and economic failure that have led to the violent protests across the nation.
At least 24,000 homes and businesses in Ireland were left without power, the stock exchange was shut, all schools were closed and transport ground to a halt with all flights cancelled from Dublin airport.
TouristsItalian puffer jacket maker Moncler said this week shopper numbers at its Chinese stores had plunged 80% since the virus outbreak, while jeweler Pandora has said business in the country had ground to a halt.
The ancient heart of Rome, a national capital as well as one of the world's most fabled cities, ground to a halt late on Friday afternoon as the sun fell slowly over the Tiber River.
With Washington doubling down on sanctions enforcement, humanitarian aid for North Korea has nearly ground to a halt this year, despite warnings of a potential food crisis and improving relations with Pyongyang, aid groups say.
Though the virus has reached several other countries, China has felt the impact more than anywhere else — cities with millions of residents have been quarantined, and the country's manufacturing sector has ground to a halt.
Then the vote-count announcements ground to a halt, and suspicions arose that Mr. Morales, the longest-sitting leader in Latin America — he has been in office since 2006 — was not ready to relinquish power.
WASHINGTON — When virtually all legislative activity ground to a halt during the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999, senators had already resolved the most pressing item on their agenda: fully funding the government.
Grain traffic from the United States to China has nearly ground to a halt since Beijing hit $50 billion in U.S. imports, including soybeans, with hefty tariffs, in retaliation for a similar move by Washington.
Construction in Dublin ground to a halt from 2010 to 2014, but now almost 150 new office blocks are either under construction, have received planning permission or are in the planning stages, Savills' survey found.
For me, the low point of Game of Thrones was its dreadfully self-serious fifth season, when most of the plots ground to a halt in favor of needless spectacle and pointless big, sadistic twists.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Parts of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, ground to a halt on Friday after a substation fault cut off power to the nation's parliament, shut down traffic signals and plunged businesses into darkness.
"The fact that one digger can cause our international travel to be ground to a halt shows how vulnerable that infrastrucutre was and the National government ignored that," Labour leader Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.
Advocates for White House–backed legislation intended to make it easier for sick patients to get access to experimental drugs are frustrated, believing that congressional momentum behind "right to try" has ground to a halt.
Andres Iniesta, reduced to the role of substitute as Spain ground to a halt against Russia, will not be back; Lewandowski left no impression at all as Poland slipped from sight in the group stage.
In a matter of days, social life throughout much of the nation ground to a halt as communities took steps to stop the spread of the virus, which has now infected more than 13,000 Americans.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), whose Boxing Task Force (BTF) is organising the events after the suspension last year of world body AIBA, acted as countries went into lockdown and sport ground to a halt.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), whose Boxing Task Force (BTF) is organising the events after the suspension last year of world body AIBA, acted as countries went into lockdown and sport ground to a halt.
That court fight could take months, but without full access to relevant witnesses, Democratic efforts to investigate and air possible obstruction and other misdeeds documented by Mr. Mueller have all but ground to a halt.
For his part, Mr. Salerno had hoped to get a job on a political campaign in his home state of Texas — an option that no longer seems viable as canvassing has ground to a halt.
A quick Twitter search shows a host of complaints from users noting that they can't make purchases on the App Store, were struggling with sign-on issues and that downloads had ground to a halt.
As a result, talks with the EU have all but ground to a halt, raising fears among businesses and in Brussels that Britain could end up crashing out of the bloc without an agreed deal.
But others have been ground to a halt by the sanctions, including a deal with the Russian state oil company to explore and pump in Siberia that could be worth tens of billions of dollars.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A convoy taking evacuees out of eastern Aleppo has started to head back in the direction of the rebel-held enclave, a Reuters witness said on Friday, after the evacuation ground to a halt.
Five estate agents said sales had effectively ground to a halt in the second quarter due to the uncertainty about Britain's planned withdrawal from the European Union, combined with higher property taxes and a slowing economy.
Brazilian construction company Odebrecht was meant to build an 23.5-km (seven-mile) bridge in the town - the longest in the South American country - in 216 but the project ground to a halt a year ago.
"The stock-market rebound has ground to a halt, as a fresh bout of doubts over the upcoming G20 meeting between the U.S. and China hit market sentiment once again," said Joshua Mahony, IG market analyst.
But the talks have ground to a halt following a boardroom tussle and corruption claims at FGV that led to the CEO's suspension and the resignation of its chairman last month, the sources said on Wednesday.
Yet a fall in oil prices since 2014 has already squeezed public finances: this year Saudi Arabia's government will probably run a fiscal deficit of 9% of GDP and the economy has ground to a halt.
The East Coast's busiest port system ground to a halt on Friday as thousands of longshoremen in New York and New Jersey walked off the job, threatening to disrupt the delivery of goods throughout the region.
The result comes a week after government figures showed the Australian economy almost ground to a halt in the fourth quarter of last year, undermining the coalition's claim to being the party of better economic management.
Indonesia's exports of nickel ore ground to a halt over the course of 2014-2022, although the expected hit on China's NPI sector never materialised because of the rise of the Philippines as an alternative supplier.
It ground to a halt on Monday, flooding islands with a wall of water up to 23 feet high, ripping buildings apart with wind gusts as strong as 220 mph, and killing at least 23 people.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's economic expansion slowed slightly less than expected in the fourth quarter as the pace of services growth held up even as industrial expansion ground to a halt, preliminary data showed on Friday.
In the depths of the Great Recession in 2008 and 2009, the economy was losing hundreds of thousands of jobs each month as businesses ground to a halt in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
With no meals to prepare, menus to taste, floral arrangements to procure, décor to design or invitations to calligraphy, the back-of-house life of the White House has essentially ground to a halt as well.
Travel ground to a halt elsewhere as more than 3,000 flights were canceled and more than 3,500 others were delayed across the country on Friday, many at coastal airports in the storm's path, according to FlightAware.
Mexico's economic growth had ground to a halt even before the coronavirus outbreak, with analysts blaming the president's unpredictable policies and preference for state involvement in the energy sector for a sharp drop in business sentiment.
When the credit has periodically expired, installations nearly ground to a halt — dropping by roughly 76 to 93 percent, according to an analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists — only to resume again with its renewal.
"The euro zone economy ground to a halt in September, the PMI surveys painting the darkest picture since the current period of expansion began in mid-2013," said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit.
LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone business growth has almost ground to a halt this month as a downturn in the manufacturing industry appears to be increasingly affecting the bloc's dominant services industry, a survey showed on Friday.
Though latest data showed business morale in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, improved slightly in November, growth prospects for the euro zone remained uncertain as business growth in the region almost ground to a halt this month.
Government activities, which almost ground to a halt ahead of February's election, slowed further after his victory, leaving foreign investors trying to gauge how much of a hit the stock market will take from the hiatus.
Idorsia has been forced to switch gears by the coronavirus crisis in China, as recruitment there of patients for a pair of drug trials - for hypertension medicine aprocitentan and lupus drug cenerimod - has ground to a halt.
Activity on site ground to a halt after the South African company brought in as a co-investor and to manage the park left, saying it hadn't been paid by the Congolese government in nearly a year.
Japan's economic growth ground to a halt in April-June as weak exports and shaky domestic demand prompted companies to cut spending, piling fresh pressure on Abe to come up with policies to produce more sustainable growth.
A closer look at the euro area's private sector loan demand indicates that lending to non-financial corporations in December virtually ground to a halt, after hovering around an average 0.4 percent annual increase since last summer.
The collapse in oil revenues has hammered the government budget - 70 percent of which normally comes from petroleum receipts - to the point that basic services such as garbage collection in the capital have ground to a halt.
PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Suriname ground to a halt on Wednesday as its banks, shops and factories shuttered in a showdown between its beleaguered private sector and its authoritarian government over how to respond to a deepening economic crisis.
Polling in the nationally watched Senate and gubernatorial races in the country's largest swing state has temporarily ground to a halt for political parties, campaigns and independent groups trying to get a read on what voters think.
A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal detailed how Beijing "appears to be ramping up enforcement of international sanctions" and how in just the past six months, cross-border economic activity has ground to a halt.
Although some new buildings along the waterway went up as far back as 2000, and several condo towers were built near its mouth more than a decade ago, most construction ground to a halt during the recession.
The process has been disrupted by technical glitches, and Nasralla initially held a five point lead over pre-election favorite Hernandez until the count ground to a halt on Monday with more than half of the ballots counted.
In Las Vegas, which was the epicenter of the housing crash and the subprime mortgage crisis, sales and prices were raging last year and last spring, but supply is now spiking and sales have ground to a halt.
During one of the big snowstorms, when the city ground to a halt and many of my suburban colleagues were digging out their driveways, I was one of the physicians who could make it to the hospital early.
According to the report, the last quarter's upward trend ground to a halt in nearly all regions as concerns over the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union (EU) and economic slowdown in Asia weighed on sentiment.
South Korea's central bank on Thursday downgraded its growth outlook for this year to 2.9 percent, from 3.0 percent, after an export boom ground to a halt in June in the face of escalating U.S.-China trade tensions.
With the curbs, trade in Venezuelan debt has ground to a halt, leaving some investors concerned the price is not reflective of the assets' true value and making it harder for passive funds to accurately reflect the indexes.
Momentum for achieving the BOK's target of 3 percent growth this year appeared to wane after an export boom ground to a halt in June in the face of escalating trade tensions between the United States and China.
The rise in imports came even as factories and construction work ground to a halt from late January as China sought to stop the spread of the virus that has now killed more than 3,000 in the country.
Countries have closed their borders and gone into lockdown, the global economy has ground to a halt, and internet traffic has surged in the wake of the outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Peter Kahi, Nakumatt's court-appointed administrator, said he would seek a forensic investigator to investigate why Atul Shah, its former chief executive, wrote off stock worth 18 billion shillings in May, before the company ground to a halt.
A brand new $50 million "treat-heat" facility — which hardens the steel for use a mile below a gulf oil rig and 200 miles above the Earth's surface within the International Space Center — was ground to a halt.
At the Mira Mare hotel, on the Adriatic seafront in the city of Durres, a mechanized digger had ground to a halt near the ruins of concrete slabs, water boilers, mattresses and curtains from the six-storey building.
Despite promising research in the 1950s and 1960s on LSD at a psychedelic dose as a treatment for alcoholism and certain mood disorders, much of that research ground to a halt when the substance was criminalized in 1966.
But the talks ground to a halt over the weekend in a dispute over limits demanded by Democrats on the number of places available in detention centers used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations away from border areas.
Italian puffer jacket maker Moncler warned this week that shopper numbers at its stores in China had plunged 80% since the coronavirus outbreak, while jewelry maker Pandora has said business in the country had ground to a halt.
The shine wore off entirely down the stretch last season, when the Buckeyes' offense ground to a halt in its final three games and Barrett averaged a paltry 212 yards passing along with a 212:212 TD:INT ratio.
Vehicle sales growth ground to a halt in mid-2015 as the economy's growth slowed and the stock market slumped, although car sales rebounded late in the year after the government cut taxes on small engine cars from October.
Italy's fashion industry expects revenues to fall 2300% in the first half of 210 as the coronavirus outbreak hits sales, an industry official said on Tuesday, as jewellery maker Pandora warned business in China had ground to a halt.
Short-term sales of crude oil and liquefied natural gas into China almost ground to a halt this week as the virus spread, leaving buyers to ponder legal action to avoid having to honour purchase agreements, trade sources said.
The decline — from an average of 78.9 years per person in 2013 to 78.8 years per person in 2014 — is the next step in a recent trend in which life expectancy increases for Americans have ground to a halt.
The country's fourth largest housing finance company, which warned on Saturday that its financial situation was grim and business had ground to a halt, met lenders and other debtholders last week to discuss the outline of a rescue package.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Mergers and acquisitions in the European Union's bank sector ground to a halt in the first half of this year, European Central Bank data showed on Thursday, despite pressure from shrinking margins and from the ECB itself.
While the hearing was underway in Congress, lawmakers are searching for another short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown later this month, as traditional budget and appropriations processes have effectively ground to a halt in both chambers.
Talks between the Transitional Military Council, which has ruled since President Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in April, and the opposition have ground to a halt amid deep differences over who would lead a three-year transition to democracy.
Still, the Biden campaign is signaling that it wants him to play a larger role in the national conversation and knows that he can't be perceived as hiding out, even if the presidential campaigns have ground to a halt.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela ground to a halt Friday as a national power blackout entered its second day, stalling public transportation, decimating already scarce food supplies, crippling the vital oil industry and threatening the lives of thousands of chronic patients.
BEIJING, March 16 (Reuters) - New home prices in China stalled for the first time in nearly five years in February, according to Reuters calculations, as the property market ground to a halt due to the fast spreading coronavirus outbreak.
Traffic ground to a halt in parts of Dublin Wednesday as women and abortion rights activists sang along to Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" during a raucous dance party on O'Connell Bridge.
And even though Nokia Health rebranded many of Withings' original products like the Steel HR after purchasing the company, without any meaningful updates to those devices in the last year, momentum for Nokia's health tech has ground to a halt.
Short-term sales of crude oil and liquefied natural gas into China almost ground to a halt this week amid slowed economic activity and hurt demand and buyers pondered legal action to avoid having to honor purchase agreements, trade sources said.
Pakistan was last year expected to sign up for its 13th IMF bailout program since the late 1980s but talks ground to a halt, with Pakistani officials saying the conditions attached to the proposed IMF loans could hurt economic growth.
Pakistan was last year expected to sign up for its 13th IMF bailout programme since the late 1980s but talks ground to a halt, with Pakistani officials saying the conditions attached to the proposed IMF loans could hurt economic growth.
But the inflow surge may have ground to a halt, the group said, predicting that going could get tougher in coming weeks as expectations again grow for the U.S. Federal Reserve to raise interest rates a couple of times in 2016.
Fitch expects economic growth, which ground to a halt in the second quarter, to start again in the third, although it revised down its forecast for GDP growth to 0.8 percent in 2016, in line with the government's recently trimmed forecast.
Some 63 soy crushing units had ground to a halt as a result of the protests and remained shut pending deliveries of raw materials, said Abiove, the trade group representing processors and grain handlers like Bunge Inc and Cargill Ltd[CARGIL.UL].
It ended up paying too much for companies with mediocre drugs and its merger conveyor ground to a halt, leaving it teetering under a massive debt load - that's why it's offloading assets, including two roughly $1 billion sales this week.
The country's fourth largest housing finance company, which warned on Saturday that its financial situation was grim and business had ground to a halt, met with lenders and other debtholders last week to discuss the contours of the rescue package.
In the once thriving industrial heartland of Puerto Ordaz, where steel output has almost ground to a halt nine years after steelmaker Sidor was taken over by the government, union leaders expect a strong turnout for the opposition all the same.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian Senator Ricardo Ferraço in charge of drafting a labor reform report said on Thursday he was canceling work on the proposal, an indication that President Michel Temer's agenda has ground to a halt in the new political crisis.
It had planned to apply for a World Bank loan last year but the process ground to a halt because it failed to submit its economic recovery plans by the end of December as initially promised, sources told Reuters last month.
An investigation into DeVry University, now known as Adtalem Global Education, "ground to a halt early last year," and later, over the summer, DeVos picked Julian Schmoke, a former dean at the school, to be the team's supervisor, the Times reported.
LONDON (Reuters) - British economic growth almost ground to a halt last month, as modest expansion among services firms barely offset weakness in manufacturing and construction caused by the Brexit crisis and weaker global growth, a business survey showed on Wednesday.
Japan's economy ground to a halt in April-June and analysts expect any rebound in the current quarter to be modest as weak global growth and the yen's 20 percent rise against the dollar this year hurt exports and capital expenditure.
But the firm's discussions over the field, located about 30 km (20 miles) off the Gaza coast, have ground to a halt since tensions in the wider region have taken a fresh turn for the worse, the source told Reuters.
The 13-year-old Renzi took office in February 2014 promising to revive a chronically weak economy, but growth has continued to underperform Italy's partners and ground to a halt in the second quarter, held back by weak domestic demand.
Kuroda countered criticism that the BOJ was running out of ammunition to accelerate inflation - which has ground to a halt due to slumping oil costs - to 2 percent, saying negative rates won't hamper the bank's efforts to gobble up government bonds.
India had been the biggest buyer of Malaysian palm oil for five years, but purchases ground to a halt after the January curbs, a retaliation for then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's criticism of New Delhi's policy regarding its Muslim minority. .
India had been the biggest buyer of Malaysian palm oil for five years, but purchases ground to a halt after the January curbs, a retaliation for then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's criticism of New Delhi's policy regarding its Muslim minority.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Humanitarian aid for North Korea has nearly ground to a halt this year as the United States steps up the enforcement of sanctions, despite warnings of a potential food crisis and improving relations with Pyongyang, aid groups say.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian electricity trader Focus Energia is in talks to buy the São Roque hydroelectric plant in the state of Santa Catarina, a Nova Engevix-controled project that has ground to a halt near completion, two sources told Reuters.
The last time there was a retail situation like this — and it was not really like this but may be the only comparable time — was after 9/11, when life in New York ground to a halt, and shopping did, too.
The last time there was a retail situation like this — and it was not really like this but may be the only comparable time — was after 9/11, when life in New York ground to a halt, and shopping did, too.
The National Assembly, France's lower house of Parliament, formed a special investigative committee, and legislative work ground to a halt as representatives pressed members of Mr. Macron's government about the case, requesting that the prime minister, Édouard Philippe, address the matter.
Nightlife ground to a halt in China in the third quarter last year, with many bars and restaurants shutting down due to the COVID-19 virus, AB InBev CEO Carlos Brito said, echoing comments from the world's third-largest brewer Carlsberg.
The euro fell 0.33% against the greenback after a survey showed euro zone business growth almost ground to a halt this month, with IHS Markit's flash November composite Purchasing Managers' Index sliding closer to the 50 mark separating growth from contraction.
Rajoy's stand-off with the Catalan separatists has sharpened at a time when national politics have ground to a halt after two inconclusive national elections over the last 10 months failed to produce a majority to form a central government.
The travel restriction on the general is the first significant international penalty to be imposed on a Sri Lankan official over atrocities committed during the country's 26-year civil war with Tamil Tiger militants, which ground to a halt in 2009.
Demand for gasoline typically falls between September and October, but consumption dropped by twice as much as business and driving ground to a halt during Hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005 and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008, according to Cohen.
The Jeddah version still had some distinctly Saudi quirks: men and women queued in separate lines outside the venue, guarded by a heavy police presence, and the show ground to a halt each time the call to prayer was heard.
Japan's economic growth ground to a halt in April-June as weak exports and shaky domestic demand prompted companies to cut spending, putting fresh pressure on premier Shinzo Abe to come up with policies that will produce more sustainable growth.
It started with his "Progressive Agenda" campaign in 2015, which took him to Washington, D.C., and elsewhere until it ground to a halt after an Iowa presidential forum had to be canceled when none of the major candidates agreed to attend.
Onscreen, each has to be its own place, with its own design and its own logic, and every time the movie loses its momentum and has to regain it, it's because it ground to a halt to go somewhere new.
Exxon and Conoco left the country amid a nationalization wave last decade by late President Hugo Chavez, while operations at the facility part-owned by Chevron have all but ground to a halt - in part due to extended blackouts in March.
Abiy offered to mediate after the opposition Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF) alliance's talks with the TMC over who will lead a transition period before elections had ground to a halt, then collapsed altogether after the raid on the protest camp.
South Korea's central bank on Thursday downgraded its growth outlook to 2.9 percent for this year from 3.0 percent previously, after an export boom ground to a halt in June in the face of escalating trade tensions between the United States and China.
But then, the company's growth nearly ground to a halt in 2016 when Withings was bought out by Nokia, whose push into digital health floundered mightily, and resulted in Nokia selling Withings back to one of its original founders just two years later.
Without someone to oversee the Visitors Office, a post that under Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama had filled before their respective inauguration days, those tours, and the perk of being able to arrange them, ground to a halt when Trump took office.
Global trade tensions ratcheted higher throughout May after Trump ordered tariffs on billions of dollars of imported goods from China to rise to 25% from 10%, and progress toward a trade deal between the world's two largest economies ground to a halt.
The session started in the twilight as the cars went out for their first stints at the end of a sweltering day but McLaren's Jenson Button ground to a halt toward the end of his installation lap, bringing out the virtual safety car.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's political affairs minister Carlos Marun said on Monday that passage of a bill to overhaul the country's costly social security system has effectively ground to a halt in Congress and would become a campaign issue in this year's election.
National issues undoubtedly factor into the public's attitude towards Fatah after two-decades at the helm of the PA. 20-odd-years after Oslo, with peace talks ground to a halt and lack of clarity about "where-to-next," Palestinians are conflicted.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economic growth ground to a halt in April-June as weak exports and shaky domestic demand prompted companies to cut spending, putting fresh pressure on premier Shinzo Abe to come up with policies that will produce more sustainable growth.
MEXICO CITY, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Mexico's auto production and exports fell sharply in October compared with the same month last year as production from U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co ground to a halt, according to data from the national statistics agency INEGI.
Across New Jersey, residents accustomed to complaining about all of the road work undertaken during the summer months now have something different to moan about: Hundreds of those improvement projects have ground to a halt, victims of a political stalemate among state lawmakers.
Washington (CNN)White House press briefings, in steady decline even before the partial government shutdown, have now ground to a halt as a prolonged power struggle among President Donald Trump's aides leads to a muddled messaging strategy, people familiar with the matter say.
But the process for setting up roll call votes on amendments to the NDAA has ground to a halt in recent years as senators object to a vote on any amendment unless they can also get a vote on their own proposals.
Naturally, astronomers figured this dynamic, turbulent environment contributed to the emergence of FRBs, but FRB 180924 was found in a large galaxy about the size of our Milky Way, and in a region where star formation has practically ground to a halt.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Business in Zimbabwe's capital and other cities ground to a halt on Wednesday as Zimbabweans stayed home to protest the government's handling of the deteriorating economy, the latest sign of growing popular discontent with President Robert Mugabe's 36-year rule.
The appeals court's cursory dismissal of Friedrichs's complaint demonstrates that it never had much doctrinal substance to begin with, and while Republicans may stall the president's nominations to the Court, Alito's marvelous adventure in a jurisprudential fantasyland has ground to a halt.
LONDON, Nov 22013 (Reuters) - Euro zone business growth almost ground to a halt this month as activity in the bloc's dominant services industry increased at a much weaker pace than expected and among manufacturers it contracted again, a survey showed on Friday.
"Overall jobs growth has meanwhile also ground to a halt as worries about deteriorating order books and the gloomier outlook took their toll on firms' appetite to hire, pointing to a weakening labour market and adding to the darkening outlook," Williamson said.
During Islamic State rule, however, most classes ground to a halt, both because the group forbade the teaching of what it considered sinful or irrelevant subjects, like art and philosophy, and because professors and students were afraid to venture out of their homes.
PATTAYA, Thailand, March 27 (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has turned a pub in Thailand's famed seaside resort town of Pattaya into a community kitchen serving free food for workers who have lost jobs when the global tourism industry ground to a halt.
Like most of the global sporting calendar, soccer has ground to a halt as countries battle to contain the virus and FIFA said in a statement that it would launch a series of live chats with former players at 1800 GMT on Thursday.
It had planned to apply for a World Bank loan last year but the process had ground to a halt because it failed to submit its economic recovery plans by the end of December as initially promised, sources told Reuters last month.
PUERTO ORDAZ (Reuters) - Workers at Venezuelan steelmaker Sidor are planting sunflowers and vegetables on company premises to ease a national food deficit as steel output has almost ground to a halt nine years after the company was taken over by the government.
Global stock markets also struggled to hold on to early gains as investors braced for a surge in U.S. jobless claims, with estimates ranging from 250,000 to a whopping 4 million as economic activity ground to a halt under state-wide lockdowns.
Barricades are up all around the Capitol building and traffic has ground to a halt through downtown Washington, as the Secret Service restricts access to an event where the President-elect, outgoing President, much of Congress and the Supreme Court will be on-hand.
Trips to Ireland grew by 6.6 percent between April and June, official data showed on Wednesday, after two years of double-digit growth ground to a halt in the first quarter with the weak pound keeping visitors from the main market of Britain at home.
A funny thing is happening at this year's Mobile World Congress: a show defined by its future-facing announcements and innovations essentially ground to a halt to gawk at Nokia rewinding the clock a decade and a half with its launch of the Nokia 3310.
Japan's economic growth ground to a halt in April-June and analysts expect any rebound in the current quarter to be modest as weak global growth and the yen's 20 percent rise against the dollar so far this year hurt exports and capital expenditure.
The recent rise in safe haven German bond yields — which has come as investors discount the prospect of a vote for Brexit — ground to a halt and low-rated debt was also in demand after interventions from the world's two most powerful central banks.
OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian economy, once one of Europe's brightest, ground to a halt in late 211.3, leaving full-year growth at its lowest in six years and consumer confidence at its lowest in 21992 years, strengthening the case for central bank rate cuts.
The heavily paper money-dependent (90 percent of transactions are in cash) country ground to a halt as the panicked citizenry flooded ATMs and banks, and the resulting financial chaos disproportionately affected those with the most to lose in the first place—the poor.
Among their alleged targets was the city of Atlanta, where segments of the municipal online infrastructure were ground to a halt for days in March because of the malware infection, disabling residents from paying water bills and forcing police officers to file reports by hand.
The transition from military rule to a civilian-led government, which allowed the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to become the de facto head of state, ground to a halt and even regressed after she took office, he remarked later to reporters.
And the need to rely on social distancing to reduce risk of infection has already caused stocks to plummet and started to have a massive effect on the US economy as the service, hospitality and, in many cases, manufacturing industries have ground to a halt.
Monetary policy is most potent in bolstering demand by lowering the cost of borrowing - it cannot restore global supply chains that have ground to a halt or convince people it is safe to go on a trip or for businesses to hold a sales convention.
Efforts to find the work after the war had ground to a halt, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the soldier's heirs made the first of several overtures to Italian officials, as well as a London auction house, to sell the painting back.
Monetary policy is most potent in bolstering demand by lowering the cost of borrowing - it cannot restore global supply chains that have ground to a halt or convince people it is safe to go on a trip or for businesses to hold a sales convention.
Foreign investment has almost ground to a halt, hobbled by a slide in the naira currency - which trades on the black market at about 20173 percent below the official rate of 300 per dollar - and expectations the currency may have to be devalued again.
Tony Rosato, who was a cast member of the sketch shows "Saturday Night Live" and "SCTV" in the 1980s, but whose career ground to a halt when mental illness led to his incarceration in the 2000s, died on Tuesday at his home in Toronto.
Global trade tensions ratcheted higher throughout the month after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered tariffs on billions of dollars of imported goods from China to rise to 25% from 10%, and progress toward a trade deal between the world's two largest economies ground to a halt.
CHINESE OIL, GAS SALES PARALYZED Short-term sales of crude oil and liquefied natural gas into China almost ground to a halt this week amid slowed economic activity and hurt demand and buyers pondered legal action to avoid having to honour purchase agreements, trade sources said.
After a U.S.-EU trade deal, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), ground to a halt last year, Washington might press for Britain to drop its resistance to U.S. genetically modified foods and to smooth over regulatory differences for product safety, food and pharmaceuticals.
But humanitarian aid for the North nearly ground to a halt last year due to strict interpretations of bans on banking and shipping transactions with Pyongyang, as well as a travel ban for U.S. citizens, according to a dozen officials at U.N. and U.S. civilian organizations.
WASHINGTON — The United States-led air campaign to hunt down the last pockets of Islamic State militants in eastern Syria effectively ground to a halt in the past two months after the allies lost their most effective battleground partner, stalling a critical phase of the offensive.
Construction of the plant, which is slated to have an installed capacity of 142 megawatts, ground to a halt after Engevix's involvement in the "Car Wash" scandal, a graft scheme uncovered by Brazilian prosecutors which pulled back the curtain on years of corruption between companies and politicians.
Turkey's 12-year-long accession talks have ground to a halt since Ankara's crackdown after the failed coup, in which more than 50,000 people have been jailed pending trial and some 150,000 have been sacked or suspended from jobs in the military, private and public sectors.
Hardest hit in terms of number of infections was Russia, but the damage also hit much closer to home: our friends in the United Kingdom saw their National Health Service ground to a halt as hospitals pulled the plug on their computers to prevent the malware from spreading.
Markets have already scaled-back expectations of when the ECB will deliver its first interest rate hike of this economic cycle, while a May rate rise from the Bank of England looks increasingly unlikely after Friday's data showing the British economy virtually ground to a halt in Q2100.
A diplomatic source said the purpose of the meeting was to take steps forward in the relations between U.S. and North Korea after things "ground to a halt" following a landmark meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore last year.
Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the committee, cited the allegation once they were made public to call for the confirmation to ground to a halt, other Democrats quickly distanced themselves from the allegation, choosing instead to keep the focus on Ford's claims -- and a lesser extent, Ramirez's.
American-backed operations against ISIS fighters in the area had effectively ground to a halt despite warnings from intelligence analysts that Islamic State militants were regrouping and still posed a threat even after their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed during an American raid on Oct. 26.
WTO General-Director Roberto Azevedo, speaking as the WTO's dispute appeals system ground to a halt, said he believed a meeting of trade ministers in Kazakhstan in June could prove to be one of the most successful such conferences ever, with a series of possible deals to be struck.
One year after President Donald Trump's inauguration and just 12 hours after the United States government ground to a halt, people across the country grabbed their homemade signs, pulled on their pink pussy hats, and poured out into the streets to protest in the second annual Women's March.
International bank-to-bank lending is contracting for the first time in two years, the use of dollar-denominated debt to drive growth in emerging markets has ground to a halt on a strengthening of the currency that has also served to send U.S. companies rushing to borrow in euros.
LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - Private credit growth across sub-Saharan Africa has more than halved over the past two years and ground to a halt in oil exporting countries following low oil prices and the economic slowdown in China, weighing heavily on regional growth prospects, a report said on Friday.
Programming at the two-day festival—which took place at the Split Rock Resort in Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania—ground to a halt at 26 AM after police arrested 22016-year-old Kaylan Jones for misdemeanor offenses, including possession of a small amount of marijuana, and possession of a controlled substance.
"This is worse than 9/11 for the airline industry, they are almost ground to a halt," said Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinTrump signs coronavirus aid package with paid sick leave, free testing McConnell takes reins of third coronavirus bill GOP embraces big stimulus after years of decrying it MORE.
Earlier in the day, Trump sent a letter to U.S. governors outlining his vision for the "next phase" in his administration's plans to reopen the economy, which has ground to a halt as an increasing number of states impose harsh restrictions to try to contain the spread of the disease.
Kerris, who served 14 years at Apple, joins Twitter at a time when the company is in desperate need of a good message: investors have battered the company's stock down roughly 66% from its 52-week high and Twitter's user growth has ground to a halt (and even shrunk in the U.S.).
Companies that didn't make the final cut or were fired for misleading student loan borrowers are suing the Department, and the judge overseeing the litigation has issued an order preventing the Department from assigning new accounts to debt collectors, leading to claims that collection on defaulted student loans has ground to a halt.
Mr. Trump called action on infrastructure "a necessity" during his State of the Union address in February, yet he angrily canceled a meeting on the subject with Democratic leaders in May after learning that Speaker Nancy Pelosi had suggested he was engaged in a "cover-up," and talks ground to a halt.
The second quarter had nearly ground to a halt thanks to a series of punts, but New England woke up in the final minute of the first half, with Tom Brady finding Phillip Dorsett for a 242-yard touchdown reception that, along with the extra point, has New England up, 14-0.
International oil companies "were already struggling with project costs before the oil price collapsed, but with this downturn already lasting 18 months with no end in sight, exploration budgets have ground to a halt, offshore developments aren't being sanctioned, and rig contracts are being cancelled for the first time in our memory", Barclays said.
Throughout the summer and early fall there was a flurry of activity around the case, the attorney says, but that it ground to a halt right after November 8, when Donald Trump's surprise win cleared a path for Sessions's ascent to the president's cabinet and for Strange to claim his seat in the Senate.
The Judiciary Committee has been blocked by the White House from interviewing Mueller's central witnesses; the Oversight Committee faced roadblocks to investigating Trump's handling of the U.S. Census; the Ways and Means Committees is fighting in court for Trump's tax returns; and several other investigations have been ground to a halt by Trump's resistance.
International oil companies "were already struggling with project costs before the oil price collapsed, but with this downturn already lasting 18 months with no end in sight, exploration budgets have ground to a halt, offshore developments aren't being sanctioned, and rig contracts are being canceled for the first time in our memory", Barclays said.
President Donald Trump appears at an education event with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. The arrival of Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos ground to a halt the work that Warren and many others had put into getting debt relief for for-profit college students.
Nine Dead and 50 Wounded After Truck Crashes Into Berlin Christmas Market in Possible Terror AttackThe Associated Press is reporting that nine people have died and at least 50 were wounded Monday…Read more ReadAccording German media, investigators say the truck ground to a halt less than 300 feet after its autonomous brakes sensed a collision.
And so it was that Josh Malmuth, the creator of the new sitcom "Abby's," stared at the sky one night last fall as his production ground to a halt, girding himself for another shoot to be interrupted every 15 minutes or so by an assistant producer with word of a plane, or a helicopter, or perhaps a drone.
The South Korean firm - which together with affiliate Kia Motors is the world's No.5 automaker - has been betting earnings will recover gradually, but its plans have ground to a halt with China's backlash over Seoul's decision to deploy an anti-missile system, the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD), showing no signs of abating.
The lawsuit also demands that a long-awaited $6 billion master-plan redevelopment to transform the island — complete with a 8,000 new homes, a hotel, a new ferry terminal, and upscale retailers — be ground to a halt until independent reports confirm a "complete and total remediation of all toxic substances, including all radioactive materials," according to the Chronicle.
These deals are among the first syndicated second-lien loans to hit the market since the fourth quarter of 2015 when second-lien activity ground to a halt with the volatility and showcases just how far the market has come and could help sponsors look at additional deals, including leveraged buyouts in the second half of the year if it holds up.
On Friday, high-level calls took place between the Justice Department and Capitol Hill about background checks, an official familiar with the conversations said, with Attorney General Bill Barr -- who has also nudged Trump to support universal background checks -- sending a signal that talks had ground to a halt and prospects for presidential support for a background checks bill seemed to be dimming.
READ: The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort is coming to New York Harbor Still, the document shows a starting point, and reveals the contours of Trump's plan to prop up companies and individuals, as industries across the country have ground to a halt and millions of people have lost or risk losing their ability to work and make an income.
On Tuesday, Qualcomm responded to LGE's allegations by saying that it had continued to supply chips to the Korean phone maker despite the fact that license negotiations ground to a halt and LGE had no license at all with Qualcomm earlier this year, the precise scenario that phone makers have argued could prompt Qualcomm to cut off chip supplies if Koh's ruling is not enforced.
Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) followed Wisconsin's lead and started to use emergency powers to temporarily schedule fentanyl as a class for the entire U.S. By removing the incentive for foreign chemical and drug manufacturers to modify the fentanyl molecule just enough to stay ahead of U.S. scheduling and skirt law enforcement, the creation of new fentanyl-related substances has ground to a halt internationally.
TIANJIN, China/BEIJING (Reuters) - On a recent visit to the area around Tianjin Port Co Ltd, there were more than one hundred empty trucks parked at the coal storage center run by Ningdong Logistic Co. Once one of the busiest places close to Tianjin's sprawling port, the storage facility was now silent as activity had ground to a halt after the port operator last month announced a ban on trucking in coal or storing it there.

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