11.   In this case they bring a fun frolic to a grinding halt.

12.   Investment banks are concerned that a change in the accounting rules would bring merger activity to a grinding halt.

13.   It came to a grinding halt earlier this month in Sedona when you pulled out of the race.

14.   Now that process has come to a grinding halt.

15.   One member can bring the Senate to a grinding halt just by talking, a process called filibustering.

16.   Should that ever happen, nuclear power plants in Japan will come to a grinding halt, crippling economic and industrial activities.

17.   The dialogue will come to a grinding halt.

18.   The political world came to a grinding halt this week, as friends and colleagues of Senator John H. Chafee mourned the passing of an esteemed legislator.

19.   To hear the U.S. Marshals Service tell it, these new rules may bring the American system of criminal justice to a grinding halt.

20.   Were it not for office TVs and indulgent bosses, absenteeism long since would have brought the U.S. economy to a grinding halt.