Experts in teen-age violence said they understood the fears related to schools, and that efforts to halt violence there should not be reduced.

A strong defensive effort by New Orleans halted their opponent's attempts at another scoring drive, and the game ended 31-17.

Such efforts to halt fraud occasionally inconvenience consumers.

Would a procedural effort to halt Senate filibusters be deploying the nuclear or constitutional option?

Only an effort halted him at a cafeteria in Church Street, and after the meal he felt the unknown pull still more strongly.

But his efforts so far have been halting at best.

Stop-smoking efforts have finally halted what for decades was an unstoppable rise in lung cancer deaths.

He warned that it seriously undermines both regional peace and stability, and global efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.

I can try to define the zeitgeist of slipstream in greater detail, but my efforts must be halting.

Both countries also agreed to intensify efforts to halt the dollar's decline.