31.   Pawlak has also slammed the brakes on moves towards greater political decentralisation.

32.   The errant waterbird did not survive a head-on collision with an oncoming truck which slammed its brakes so hard that two police cars following it smashed into each other.

33.   The Israeli government tried to slam the brakes on the weekend arrival of a UN fact-finding mission into the fierce fighting at the Jenin camp.