Without the internet, our world would come grinding to a halt.
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A major fuel shortage brought the economy grinding to a halt.
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In the meantime, business in the UK isn't grinding to a halt.
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Across Lebanon, banks are closed and business is grinding to a halt.
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Across Lebanon, banks are closed and business is grinding to a halt.
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"Things are definitely grinding to a halt today," an EPA official told CNN.
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The crash shut down the airport, with all operations grinding to a halt.
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Exploration: How do we talk about travel when it's grinding to a halt?
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Question: How do we talk about travel when it's grinding to a halt?
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But Tuesday's outage showed that it could bring entire networks of websites grinding to a halt.
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"A week ago, we were talking about the agenda grinding to a halt," the Republican said.
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It is not just public transport that is grinding to a halt because of the heat.
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Brexit could bring a new golden age of prosperity —or British industry grinding to a halt.
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Around the world, there were signs that global air travel was increasingly grinding to a halt.
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With the economy grinding to a halt, multiple public companies are withdrawing their prior earnings guidance.
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Volatility blew up as investors realized that normal life was grinding to a halt across the globe.
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We asked people how they were making ends meet as the economy was grinding to a halt.
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Construction work is grinding to a halt, and companies are offering real estate on soft loans or barter.
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And now as the coronavirus invades communities around the world, travel is once again grinding to a halt.
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And while some said the country was grinding to a halt, others used comedy to illustrate the frustration among drivers...
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Rather than being freed from corruption, the economy is grinding to a halt under the weight of arbitrary tax demands.
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Schools closed, hospitals evacuated patients, and the local economy of the state's most populated city came grinding to a halt.
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That streak has now ended this month, with a city economy dependent on tourism and entertainment grinding to a halt.
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In truth, the shortages, though noticeable nationwide, have been sporadic, and France gives no appearance of grinding to a halt.
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Taylor has noticed a dip in people booking hotels and Airbnbs as international travel is slowly grinding to a halt.
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The sudden influx of more passengers (about 20 percent on the metro) almost brought the service grinding to a halt.
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Now, with crude less than half its price of two years ago, the country appears to be grinding to a halt.
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This means the global economy, which Gross said is based on credit creation, in turn is slowly grinding to a halt.
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Rail-car loadings in China, electricity output and iron ore supplies show that China's industrial output is grinding to a halt.
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You would think that Jonas, the horrible snow storm world eater, would have brought New York City grinding to a halt.
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If you only pay attention to the quarreling inside the Beltway, you'd think the country's progress was grinding to a halt.
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Some are even pushing legislative proposals aimed at preventing the gears of government from grinding to a halt in the future.
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Pretty much as soon as the NRC began officially reviewing the application in 2008, the whole thing started grinding to a halt.
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The legal sports-betting industry in the US is grinding to a halt, like many other industries, amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
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Countries are shutting borders, travel is grinding to a halt, schools and universities are closing up, and the news is not good.
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As thousands of khaki-clad "Tommies" shipped off to the front, the British economy teetered on the cusp of grinding to a halt.
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Survey data covering the services, manufacturing and construction sectors for May reinforces the conclusion that the UK economy is grinding to a halt.
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The real question is not whether the IT revolution has run out of steam or whether creative destruction is grinding to a halt.
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As has happened in much of the rest of Europe — and the world at large — the German economy is grinding to a halt.
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It is hard to see it grinding to a halt in the absence of massive opposition, a currently unheralded alternative or profound technical failure.
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My next patient was only 43, but his kidneys were grinding to a halt under the weight of two decades of poorly controlled diabetes.
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The situation is particularly acute in China where the economy is faltering, leaders are understandably distracted, and climate action is grinding to a halt.
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It also reported that the North Korean military was smuggling in face masks, and that the regime's ration system was grinding to a halt.
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As long as I can stream Netflix and browse the web without Chrome grinding to a halt, my old Macbook Pro is all I need.
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The Federal Reserve's policy pivot this week may be too late to save an economy that is suddenly struggling to avoid grinding to a halt.
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Financial markets are in turmoil, global travel is grinding to a halt, and many people worry about the safety of travel, work, school and meetings.
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The legal sports-betting industry that was gaining ground in US is grinding to a halt, like many other industries, amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
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The vast machinery of the federal government began grinding to a halt on Saturday morning, hours after the Senate failed to reach a funding deal.
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In addition, with the economy grinding to a halt across the country and no clear end in sight, there's been an overwhelming surge of applications.
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Barbara Corcoran knows real estate and knows the market is grinding to a halt, but she also says now's the time to score a steal.
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Collectively, they show a country grinding to a halt as people stay inside and avoid large crowds to prevent the further spread of Covid-19.
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"Health care is grinding to a halt and is on the verge of collapse," said Bismarck Swangin, UNICEF communication specialist in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.
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Oil prices fell on Friday, but managed to retrace losses after plunging on data that showed recent U.S. job gains grinding to a halt in February.
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Pools for Street Fighter would run constantly on Friday and Saturday, with everything seemingly grinding to a halt for more hotly anticipated bouts featuring famous players.
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This was supposed to be the year it would take off, but that industry is grinding to a halt like so many industries amid the coronavirus.
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For us at New York Times Travel, we're asking many existential questions, among them: How do we talk about travel when it's grinding to a halt?
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It was the day after Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, and the Nazi march east through Europe was grinding to a halt outside Stalingrad.
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Even without extreme weather, the grid was already grinding to a halt under the weight of decades of mismanagement, bankruptcy and an aged, dirty fuel mix.
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We could still have our nihilistic game that, nonetheless, shows the way things are grinding to a halt instead of continuing, unimpeded, forever into the hellish future.
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This time, however, credit lines are getting cut off despite European leaders vowing to stick to the nuclear deal and European purchases are grinding to a halt.
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Mnuchin warned on Tuesday that airlines are in danger of grinding to a halt and said he has been in conversations "around the clock" with airline CEOs.
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The government grinding to a halt as this fight plays out, or one side 'winning' and railroading their fever dreams through Congress and the White House unopposed.
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This massive bank run could bring the Greek economy grinding to a halt, as people hoarded euros and banks struggled to stay in business with their deposits plummeting.
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MEXICO CITY — Latin America is rapidly grinding to a halt over the threat of the novel coronavirus, with heads of state ordering border closures, curfews, and flight suspensions. Mexico?
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All furloughed federal employees can't do their jobs — or even use their work emails or cell phones — and many government programs and research labs are grinding to a halt.
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The company's results and performance are seen as a barometer for the industry and will likely further fan worries that a two-year chip boom may grinding to a halt.
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A number of countries have closed their borders, and daily life is grinding to a halt in an effort to limit social interactions that contribute to the rapidly spreading virus.
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The plan had been to do a complete run-through of the procedure, but there were so many questions about unforeseen complications that the rehearsal kept grinding to a halt.
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Shopping, aside from basic food stockpiling, is also grinding to a halt amid medical warnings to stay indoors, politicians' requests to keep non-essential activity to a minimum, and simple panic.
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" Mnuchin told reporters Tuesday morning that the airlines are in danger of grinding to a "halt" and said "we want to maintain for critical travel the right to have domestic travel.
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Fifteen years ago, before I would replace a desktop computer or a laptop, it would have quite conspicuously broken down, its fans getting louder, its spinning hard drive grinding to a halt.
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The task force cited a failure of bureaucracy, where the lack of clear lines of authority and poor communication led to one of the nation's busiest transit hubs grinding to a halt.
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The airport is opening just as years of strong economic growth are grinding to a halt in Turkey, and any weakness in the domestic market could prove a drag on Turkish Airlines' business.
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First, while the Gallup data supports the Gingrich case that the Democratic Party is weaker than is widely recognized, the most recent findings from Gallup show Republican gains are grinding to a halt.
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Having to sort through millions of songs and keep track of what percentages of each track is licensed could add costs sufficient to bring even large internet music services grinding to a halt.
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Sherry offered the example of her local library website grinding to a halt in the early days of the pandemic as the entire neighborhood tried to check out books at the same time.
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It also took aim at anti-competitive ISP behavior on the peering and interconnection front, which you might recall resulted in Netflix traffic grinding to a halt for many users a few years ago.
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No one, May least of all, knows what Brexit will bring: a new golden age of prosperity, or British industry grinding to a halt as a 20-mile line of trucks stands outside Calais.
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The angst underscores a central dilemma confronting Trump and his political advisers: How to wage a reelection campaign and respond to attacks while Americans are dying and daily life is grinding to a halt.
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Summer may be grinding to a halt and the rosé-themed cruise may have docked until next year, but on 230th Avenue the Rosé Mansion, an "immersive wine-tasting experience," will linger on into October.
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Ad inventory is getting cheaper — but people are buying lessWith travel grinding to a halt and people hunkering down at home, it's become cheaper to advertise on digital platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Pinterest.
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Beloit at the time was on the cusp of a steep decline after successive economic blows, among them the grinding to a halt of Fairbanks Morse, a diesel engine maker and a onetime major employer.
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The country hasn't shipped $358 million in oil since the power failures started, and "the whole system is grinding to a halt," said Russ Dallen, a Miami-based partner at the brokerage firm Caracas Capital Markets.
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Air travel is grinding to a halt due to coronavirus, and BA's boss warned last week that the airline was in a battle for survival and would have to cut jobs and park up its planes.
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With the death toll rising and daily life grinding to a halt, Trump's sprawling political operation has put on hold any plans to use its nine-figure war chest to unload on the former vice president.
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One company considering such a move is Le Belle Cosmetics, whose sales are "grinding to a halt" at a duty free shop in central Seoul as Chinese tourist numbers fall, said the firm's chief executive, Cathy Lim.
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"What's happening in the stock market is raising fears that the economy is grinding to a halt and thereby will basically kill any future oil demand," said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago.
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Meanwhile, as Apple and the global automobile makers keep reminding us, trouble in the Chinese economy is causing major disruptions in global supply chains at the same time that the international travel industry is grinding to a halt.
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Fernando Alonso, already set to drop 35 places on the grid because of his own team's engine penalty, ran into more reliability trouble, his McLaren grinding to a halt before the Spaniard had managed to set a time.
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The virus has presented the 56-year-old Orban with the biggest challenge of his decade-long rule, raising the spectre of mass unemployment and temporary factory closures that pose the risk of Hungary's economy grinding to a halt.
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Broadly written, this provision and the ultimate decision by the Supreme Court could have a devastating impact on the legal advocates community, not just sending a chill but grinding to a halt most of the legal work we do.
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RISK OF THE LESS-LIKELY OUTCOME To others, however, it seemed like confirmation of an inconvenient truth: that global growth may have peaked, leaving countries stuck in slow-growth mode and reliant on fiscal policy to keep from grinding to a halt.
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LONDON/ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Banks have cut credit lines for traders shipping food to war-torn Yemen, where ports have been battlegrounds and the financial system is grinding to a halt, choking vital supplies to an impoverished country that could face famine.
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The pandemic's economic impact is just beginningPast recessions have been caused by a mere slowing down of growth, but never before have we seen the kind of social and market disruption that comes from bringing so many sectors of the economy grinding to a halt.
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The involvement of General Motors was first floated this month as the carmaker's factory floor in Kokomo was grinding to a halt and workers were being sent home — partly because the market was collapsing but also because workers would otherwise risk exposure to the coronavirus.
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Meanwhile, however, a whole line of worthy contenders, from Yoel Romero to Luke Rockhold to "Jacare" Souza, was forced to sit back and watch as their division came grinding to a halt and all their ideas about the justice of the ranking system were turned to dust.
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This year has seen a number of Republican lawmakers in red states – including Wyoming, Virginia and Kentucky – back or introduce legislation to end capital punishment, citing religious reasons and the cost of keeping inmates on death row, despite executions grinding to a halt in most states.
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Scrolling is fast and stutter-free, and it can handle multiple windows, multiple tabs (I've been able to use it with a dozen or more tabs running at any given time), and interactive web apps without grinding to a halt or having to frequently reload tabs.
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But the constant flippancy can also stop the viewer caring about what happens in the film, as well as sapping its momentum: "The Nice Guys" keeps grinding to a halt, and it badly needs some of Mel Gibson's manic "Lethal Weapon" energy to get it going again.
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The extent of the damage here and in places like Lumberton, Fayetteville, Goldsboro and Pinetops sank in like a recurring bad dream on Tuesday after a storm that killed 17 people in the state and left commerce and daily life in some areas grinding to a halt.
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Abigail Ratchford, who has a legion of 9 million Instagram followers, tells TMZ ... her IG sales are grinding to a halt amid the outbreak, which is alarming considering she's used to making around $500,000 a year from sponsored IG posts endorsing products, paid shoutouts and merchandise.
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While this 2023-percent border tax on imported steel is already causing big problems for American oil and gas producers, quotas have been far more damaging, as projects increasingly face the risk of grinding to a halt while steel imports sit in warehouses waiting for the quota to open.
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The global shipping trade is grinding to a halt as seven of the world's ten major ports are based in China, crude oil prices are at the lowest level in a year, and numerous airlines are severely reducing, if not canceling, flights to and from the Chinese mainland.
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Examples of potential actions described to us by our source were go-slows to bring traffic grinding to a halt and faux shopping sprees targeting supermarkets where activists could spend a few hours piling carts high with goods before leaving them abandoned in the store for someone else to clean up.
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Richmond, Virginia (CNN)The tranquil grounds of the Virginia State Capitol belied the utter bedlam playing out inside its buildings this week as Virginia Democrats, rocked by a scandal over a racist photo and a sexual assault allegation, looked to find a way forward without the entire government of the commonwealth grinding to a halt.
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" Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinTrump signs coronavirus aid package with paid sick leave, free testing McConnell takes reins of third coronavirus bill GOP embraces big stimulus after years of decrying it MORE told reporters Tuesday morning that the airlines are in danger of grinding to a halt and said "we want to maintain for critical travel the right to have domestic travel.
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This musical journey was turning into more of a musical car crash, where the car is made out of love and crumpled bonnet is my heart, and maybe the wheels are my hopes of finding a partner, because although they're attached to the car they are suddenly grinding to a halt or actually detaching from the main body of the car itself?
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While stocks rose sharply after the President's address, delaying the bill could cause further economic uncertainty and continue what has been a wild couple of months for financial markets beset by barrage of bad news and stopgap measures designed to boost the economy, but failing to address the actual pressures impacting global markets (driving people to invest in stock markets doesn't solve the financial shock that stems from an economy grinding to a halt in response to a national epidemic).
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The public health crisis threatens to become the defining episode of Azar's tenure, people close to him lamented in recent days, overshadowing more than two years of work on various policy initiatives and linking his legacy as health secretary to the administration's struggles to combat a fast-spreading virus that could linger for months — potentially infecting thousands, disrupting Americans' daily lives and grinding to a halt the once-strong economy that Trump officials view as key to the president's reelection.
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