20 Verbs to Use for the Word stoppages

If the plan were put into operation, however, it is claimed that it would restore confidence, prevent the wholesale stoppage of mills, and at the same time establish a cotton reserve to counteract the fluctuations of crops in the future.

Of course the water all boiled away in the engine-tanks, causing endless stoppages; and of course the hot sun, pouring directly upon the roof of the cars, caused the boards thereof to curl up and twist about in such fantastic fashion, that they afforded no protection whatever to the passengers, who were obliged to resort to sunshades and umbrellas, or get under the seats.

Those who succeeded in the government of Europe, perceiving the great losses of the Christian world by want of traffic and the stoppage of navigation, began to devise a way of passing into India, quite different from the route of the Nile and the Red Sea, and much longer and more costly.

And the order of such commanding officer directing stoppages herein authorized shall be conclusive on any disbursing officer for the payment by him to the injured parties of the stoppages so ordered.

The machine at last stopped, and we alighted, thankful to have escaped a complete stoppage of our breath.

Most of us, I suppose, have experienced in a momentary and partial degree a sudden stoppage of the apparatus of memory.

One day, when I found a stoppage in the road at the foot of Rydal Mount, from a sale of furniture, such as is common in this neighborhood every spring and autumn, I met Mr. Wordsworth,not looking observant and amused, but in his blackest mood of melancholy, and evidently wanting to get out of the way.

The Squire utters various inarticulate sounds which seem to indicate the stoppage of a bone in his throat.

This event marked the stoppage of that great, national policy which had prevailed during the first part of Louis XI.'s reign.

This took time, and necessitated many unpleasant stoppages and waits.

The recent embarrassment among the Paris publishers having occasioned a stoppage in the progress of this work, M. Cuvier availed himself of this (as the part prepared for the press was already in advance of the printer) to make preparations for republishing his Lecons d'Anotomie Comparee, of which a second edition had been long anxiously called for.

When two years later the stringency persisted, the radicals in the legislature demanded a law to stay the execution of debts, while the now unified conservatives proposed again the stoppage of the slave trade.

He issued orders to Marcel and the sheriffs to remove the stoppage they had placed on the currency of the new coinage.

Again by hard fighting we worked away to a crack running across this sheet, and to get through this crack required many stoppages and engine reversals.

He was in the act of lifting the massive weight, to have shattered the adamantine stoppage, when he was surprised by a noise behind him.

It is markedly superior in certainty; it may be blocked for a day or two by floods and snows, but it suffers no seasonal stoppage of traffic.

Successive shocks accompany the stoppage of the train.

Murray, like all his officers, thought the stoppage nothing short of robbery.

All exclaimed audibly, or to themselves, "Colored!" It takes about a month to make the round trip from New Orleans to Cincinnati and back, counting five days' stoppage in New Orleans.

Had I have left Liverpool by the Wednesday instead of the Saturday steamer, I should not have needed to have stayed over Sunday in New York, and, of course, there would be no necessity for a settler to stay at San Francisco (I had to meet my clients there); therefore, deducting these two stoppages of 78 hours, or 3-1/4 days, it would give 13 days to Merced in the winter season.

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  stoppages