1.   Her one last attempt to halt the tide lacked conviction, she knew.

2.   All in all, Klein and his FTC counterpart Robert Pitofsky may feel like the legendary King Canute who drowned trying to halt the tides.

3.   The desire of Californians to halt the tide of illegal immigration from Mexico is totally understandable.

4.   To halt the tide of abductions, the Mexican attorney general formed an antikidnapping unit late last year.

5.   On Monday, the Bosnian army acted to halt the tide of Serbs.

6.   Intellectuals had pleaded with Mubarak to take action to halt a tide of court cases against them from Islamic fundamentalist lawyers.