| The kingfisher came arrowing along the shoreline, saw the heron, and made a screeching halt in midair. |
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| She whipped around the last corner and came to a screeching halt in front of his front door. |
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| Finally bringing her ageing vehicle to a screeching halt, officers were astonished to find a seven-month-old baby boy in the front seat. |
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| With a screeching halt, the driver stepped on the brake just in front of the run-down apartment building that Adrian now called home. |
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| Sliding down the hallway on a carpet runner, Scott came to a screeching halt beside his little sister and reached down to take her hand. |
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| Gulf governments fear, however, that sharing political power with their people could bring development to a screeching halt. |
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| The traffic came to a screeching halt and the faceless multitudes shuffling along the pavements actually paused to turn and look at the cause of it all. |
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| It had a slight change there. That slight change has brought this to a screeching halt. |
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| The 80 million bills the federal government pays could come to a screeching halt. |
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| In more precise terms, the gains that began in 1997, ended in 2001, and have come to a screeching halt so far in the rest of this decade. |
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| Then all of a sudden it came to screeching halt, and being in the banking business, I was out there trying to find all this money I'd given out. |
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| The era of budgetary surpluses has come to a screeching halt with the arrival of the financial crisis that triggered a global recession. |
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| Apart from standing watch, eating and sleeping, socializing has come largely to a screeching halt. |
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| There was a time where the wonderful feeling of acceptance and good feelings came to a screeching halt. |
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| It is no exaggeration to say that this Centre would come to a screeching halt without this team. |
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| When people and goods can't move because of a degraded transportation infrastructure, business comes to a screeching halt. |
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| Yes, the team may come to a screeching halt two weeks into November. |
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| Since the speculative bubble burst and economic growth came to a screeching halt in the early 1990s, the student style has become much more toned down. |
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| If the minister or the Conservatives wanted to do it, the regularization was in place, but it came to a quick, screeching halt when this government took over. |
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| So when the building booms came to a screeching halt, employment crashed. |
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| Detect and eliminate damaging viruses and code that can cripple the network, bring everyday operations to a screeching halt and potentially cost millions of dollars. |
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| This timely measure clearly suggests that average household income gains have stalled or more precisely? have come to a screeching halt over the last few years. |
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| Marvel when the world doesn't grind to a screeching halt. |
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| Computers have never been more powerful, but add a bunch of software instruments and sound processing plug-ins into the mix, and your session can come to a screeching halt. |
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| Is this-well, we've had periods in history when there was globalization, but it did come to a screeching halt for a fairly long period of time, for at least 40 or 50 years. |
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| Renewabledevelopmentshadstartedoffrelatively quickly, from as early as 2003, but came to a screeching halt following a somewhat shaky subsidy policy. |
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| A car zooms past and comes to a screeching halt at the traffic lights. |
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