The leveraged finance markets came to a near standstill during a week in 2007.

Blue and Red opposed each other as a matter of course, at times bringing the Hall to a near standstill.

However, that same year the destruction finally came to a near standstill.

Now, after a promising start, Japan's reform effort has slowed to a near standstill.

In some spots it is dammed to a near standstill.

Corporate0 takeover activity, which filled the investment community's coffers in late 1986, has come to a near standstill.

It is also one of the few projects on schedule in what has become a near standstill in development.

The restaurant scene that had come to a near standstill a year and a half ago is burgeoning once again.

But the oil crisis of the early 1970's brought rotary-engine development to a near standstill.

Under ownership of the Mexican government, mining came to a near standstill.