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Stoppage in sentence

13 examples of Stoppage in a sentence

In Egypt’s final World Cup game – a crushing 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia that put the team at the bottom of its group – both of the opponent’s goals were conceded in the stoppage time of each half.
Germany made a similar mistake, giving up two goals to South Korea in stoppage time.
Indeed, there has been no stoppage of flights to and from the country, or any other measures that could tilt the population of Damascus and Aleppo against the regime and bring the crisis to an end.
After nearly three weeks of complete stoppage of trains, the government caved in, and soon thereafter lost a general election.
So it is in Russia's national interest - in the interest of its territorial integrity, the development of its military-industrial complex, the stoppage of a "brain drain" of its best minds to the West - to find the means to participate in this American "project of the century" - the National Missile Defense.
The abruptness of these moves contributed to financial panic and to a stoppage of credit flows within the East Asian economies.
There was a stoppage for the manoeuvring of the cages, and the young girl approached their horse, caressed it with her hand, and talked about it to her companion.
Stoppage of work would simply mean death, for he had no stock, and he must fulfil orders.
And when a new stoppage occurred oaths broke out, and all went on climbing, hustling each other, passing over each other's bodies to arrive at all costs.
To the other causes of suffering--the stoppage of orders from America, and the engorgement of invested capital in excessive production--was now added the unforeseen lack of coal for the few furnaces which were still kept up; and that was the supreme agony, this engine bread which the pits no longer furnished.
The lively notes of the guard's key-bugle vibrate in the clear cold air, and wake up the old gentleman inside, who, carefully letting down the window-sash half-way, and standing sentry over the air, takes a short peep out, and then carefully pulling it up again, informs the other inside that they're going to change directly; on which the other inside wakes himself up, and determines to postpone his next nap until after the stoppage.
In proof of Bob Sawyer's being one of the funniest fellows alive, he proceeded to entertain Mr. Pickwick with a long and circumstantial account how that gentleman once drank himself into a fever and got his head shaved; the relation of which pleasant and agreeable history was only stopped by the stoppage of the chaise at the Bell at Berkeley Heath, to change horses.
I asked, shaken by this sudden stoppage as if by a shock.