| Jenny says if services do grind to a halt for a day it will at least demonstrate the importance and value of the work council staff do. |
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| There is the danger that the political process of democratization will grind to a halt. |
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| I run away from netballs, swerve to avoid hockey sticks, grind to a halt in the sack race. |
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| Unless you have the foresight to lay up stores in advance, production will grind to a halt. |
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| Even if negotiations grind to a halt, the possibilities for dialogue are not exhausted. |
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| It would appear that in a matter of hours the entire airline industry in Canada would grind to a halt. |
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| Will the new Member States support further integration, or will integration grind to a halt? |
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| We are not yet at the stage of an ultra-violent economic slowdown with a recession, leading everyone to grind to a halt. |
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| What is the minister of trade doing to stop this injustice and what is his game plan for when our agricultural exports grind to a halt? |
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| I refer to the people who have caused the governmental process to grind to a halt over the past five years by their childish obstructionism in the legislature. |
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| We must have very reliable figures for this, otherwise we will be constructing a budget that will grind to a halt in the course of next year. |
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| Indeed, tensions over this subject are running so high that they could cause the entire negotiations process to grind to a halt. |
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| If Canada were to try to apply that directive to physicians, our health care system would grind to a halt. |
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| It just isn't right that initiatives that work should grind to a halt because their budgets aren't renewed. |
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| Without the ability to move people and goods along our highways and at our border crossings in particular, our economy would grind to a halt. |
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| Agriculture and transport account for the bulk of world's oil consumption, and some day food production as we know it will grind to a halt. |
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| The Liberals seem content to stand by and watch a vibrant industry grind to a halt. |
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| Processes grind to a halt in Council because of the requirement for unanimity. |
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| We must also respond with action to those who think Europe could grind to a halt and fall into paralysis. |
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| Those who fear that the legal protection system will grind to a halt, may well be proved right in the foreseeable future. |
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| If we do nothing, the world as we know it will grind to a halt. |
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| Turkey's accession process did not grind to a halt during the Finnish Presidency, nor was it shunted into a siding, to say nothing of the much predicted collision. |
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| University departments will grind to a halt. |
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| The finding adds substantially to the evidence that human evolution did not grind to a halt in the distant past, as is tacitly assumed by many social scientists. |
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| Step into a major city, however, and it tends to grind to a halt. |
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| You do this until you grind to a halt and then wonder why. |
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| In time, European integration is likely to grind to a halt as a result of enlargement. The economic and social situation of almost all the new Member States is precarious, to say the least. |
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| If I can't even swing elementary lunchmaking my career in politics may just grind to a halt here and now. |
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| Any effort to create a globalised society with one single approved culture, in which it is possible to communicate in only a few languages would make Europe's intellectual and economic development grind to a halt. |
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| We must ensure this process does not grind to a halt. |
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| The provincial court system would grind to a halt without plea bargains. |
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| Dr. Madej suggests that without steady improvements in our ability to measure fundamental units such the second, metre and kilogram, advances in physics will eventually grind to a halt. |
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| Then Bill Gates told us that industry would grind to a halt if all our old knowledge were subject to patents, with a handful of giants able to impose unlimited payments on newcomers. |
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| Now we have kissed goodbye to the Capital of Culture, does this mean development on the Quaysides will grind to a halt? |
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| The inevitable consequence of introducing such measures on a broad scale is that Europe will fall behind economically and that economic growth will slow down or even grind to a halt. |
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| Many runners don't even know they're overtrained until they reach the chronic phase when they grind to a halt, from which they need several weeks of rest to recover. |
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