1.   Action also stalled until Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican, got the White House to revisit a plan to protect endangered sea lions.

2.   But such efforts to unite the country were stalled until after the Civil War.

3.   Despite his comment, the security plan was stalled until the attacks.

4.   Do you think the Sonics are purposely stalling until training camp rolls around in October?

5.   Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will probably stall until after elections, he said.

6.   For weeks, he has been defying government efforts to claim the boy, hoping to stall until the Atlanta appellate court can review his case.

7.   Monsoons have muddied the field, and construction of a permanent memorial is stalled until the rains end.

8.   Similarly with a routine request for exchange of lists of documents, the lawyers stalled until a court ordered them to produce.

9.   Stocks generally could stall until after Christmas and most investors would be happy.

10.   The squabble over such pork-barrel and special-project spending had stalled until this week a vote on the war money President Bush called for months ago.