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Перевод: standstill

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остановка ; застой ; бездействие; затишье
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Тезаурус:

1. ON COLD, damp spring days, the streets get so smoky in Centralia, Pennsylvania, that traffic is forced to a standstill until visibility improves.
2. To reach 62mph from standstill needs 9.6secs instead of 12, while the maximum speed climbs from 112mph to 126mph.
3. It was an important study in selective toxicity, because it required the discovery of substances which brought spermatozoa to a standstill without damaging the tissues of the vaginal wall.
4. It was being made to feel redundant that brought her to a standstill.
5. The first arose from the government's decision to impose a standstill grant for that year - in effect a reduction in the District's planned programme in the 1952-;53 session at a time when much patient work to gain support from trade union branches and members had succeeded particularly in Norwich and Northamptonshire.
6. THE PLAYERS' strike which brought the National Hockey League to a standstill in the United States is over.
7. City: Ronson seeking a debt standstill
8. If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life, it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts, feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you, and interest herself in anything you have to say.
9. Just after I had passed my driving test I drove up a local hill on the way to my aunt's house, coming to traffic at a standstill.
10. "Being a wage-earner has nothing to do with it," Susan was beginning, when the train slowed down and slid to a standstill in Exeter Central station.
11. He would just sprint himself to a standstill in a couple of hundred metres.
12. HERON International chairman Gerald Ronson will this week meet the steering committee set up on Friday to represent Heron's 82 bankers to negotiate a standstill agreement on its 1.22 billion debt.