Standstill
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The international community watched as the disease ravaged the three countries, decimating villages, wiping out entire families, and bringing economies to a
standstill
.
More example sentences with word standstill
During this 60-hour siege on Mumbai, 10 men armed not just with weapons, but with technology, were able to bring a city of 20 million people to a
standstill.
Ten people brought 20 million people to a standstill, and this traveled around the world.
For "The Sultan's Elephant," Royal de Luxe came to central London and brought it to a
standstill
with their story of a giant little girl and her friend, a time-traveling elephant.
In 2005, our prime minister was assassinated, and the country came to a complete standstill, so we organized a five-kilometer United We Run campaign.
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