English-Dutch translations for halt

stilleggenMaar het gaat hier niet om kwesties die het volledige proces kunnen stilleggen. But these issues are not likely to halt the whole process.
stilzetten
stuiten
Men kende de oorzaak van de pestepidemie niet en was daarom niet bij machte de epidemie in haar dodelijke opmars te stuiten. They did not know the source of the bubonic menace and were unable to halt it in its deadly tracks. Vrouwen zouden op hun weg naar de top niet op een glazen plafond mogen stuiten vanwege hun sekse waardoor hun carrièreontwikkeling stokt. Women should not have to confront obstacles to their career paths and see their career development brought to a halt on account of their sex.

To limp; move with a limping gait
To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer
To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification
To falter
To stop marching
To bring to a stop
A cessation, either temporary or permanent
A minor railway station in the United Kingdom
Lame, limping
Lameness; a limp

The contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week
The contract negotiations put a halt to operations
The halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works

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