1.   For three days after she succumbed to cancer Buenos Aires came to a complete standstill.

2.   Our government can barely decide how big congressional pay raises should be without coming to a complete standstill.

3.   Other businesses have been forced to deal with complete standstills.

4.   Suddenly I was at a complete standstill.

5.   The world can put on the brakes, come to a complete standstill, but McCarty just keeps on moving.

6.   By insisting on this, the airline will quickly grind to a complete standstill and a huge asset-value destruction will and is taking place.

7.   He feared businesspeople might be less inclined to invest here in the future, causing commercial activity in Surakarta to come to a complete standstill.

8.   Macedonian and ethnic Albanian political leaders signed the accord Monday, but the fighting has yet to come to a complete standstill.

9.   Striking French workers brought Eurotunnel car traffic from France to England to a complete standstill Monday by blocking the Channel Tunnel terminal to protest working conditions.

10.   The result - catastrophic conditions as parts of the country were brought to a complete standstill.