21.   But the jollity came to an abrupt end on Saturday morning, as the same constables who were so genial on Friday rudely turned all visitors away.

22.   Flinn took the heat for the affair and suffered an abrupt end to an illustrious career.

23.   For in the great ebb and flow of professional sports, the romantic era is coming to an abrupt end in Chicago.

24.   For reasons that were widely but inconclusively discussed in the city, Barnum and the Swedish Nightingale had recently brought their mutually profitable relationship to an abrupt end.

25.   In many areas, the freeze put an abrupt end to price-shopping for heating oil by homeowners with oil burners.

26.   It has been more than six years since Nicaraguans brought an abrupt end to the Sandinista revolution by voting Daniel Ortega Saavedra out of office.

27.   It brought shame to them, their school and their sport -- and an abrupt end to the Golden Age of New York City college basketball.

28.   It might have been bad business to have shown faith in Johnson, whose pain and suffering certainly could have meant the abrupt end to his career.

29.   Maybe it was because the Spurs realized that a loss meant the season would come crashing to an abrupt end.