And, of course, the German submarines were out to stop them; the whole world was like a powder-magazine over the issue.
With respect to debates, senators have a constitutional right to speak; and while they speak to the subject before the House, there is no power any where to stop them.
It did not take a national calamity--a war--to stop them!
But I have seen these things with my own eyes, and heard them with my own ears, and been powerless to stop them.
We, too, hate the things they do, and we have come to stop them.
We strove to stop them, but there were naught but women in the house.
It was wonderful to see how they whirled about among the fowl, striking one on the head, another on the leg, another on the wing, until they happened to hit one plump on the body; that seemed to stop them.
As there were only myself and two or three of the gardeners who had run up we could do nothing to stop them.
We all laughed heartily at this idea, including the doctor himself, who continued: "Well, what else can we do to stop them?
Stop them we must, or we shall soon become a race of weaklings and mental imbeciles.
As we were the first to start it we propose to try to control the conversation, but if Saturn and Uranus choose to steal our idea and gossip between themselves, we know of no way to stop them.
Redbird said, "You would have tried to stop them, and you would have been hurt.
If they come all at once, we don't have enough rifles to stop them.
Nancy and Nicole and I tried to stop them," Frank said, his eyes moist, "but the crowd was too big.
And though he tried to stop them, or at least soften them with thoughts of his present happiness, memories began to come back to him of the sorrow and suffering he had seen, and of his comrades who had not survived.
There was as yet no open war, and the French were certainly within their rights in sending a garrison to their own colonies; but Boscawen's orders were to stop them.
These services, which raised the siege of Londonderry and kept open the communications between England and Ireland, extended throughout the summer months; nor was any attempt made by the French to stop them.
Within a month the French were in the heart of the country, having carried all before them, and with no organized force remaining in their front sufficient of itself to stop them.
Better keep them straight and not try to stop them, hadn't we?
Outside of our atmosphere there may be nothing for these masses of rock to strike against, but just as soon as they come into the air, it tries to stop them.
These rays fly from the sun as straight as arrows from a bow, unless something comes in their way to stop them.
The air is not strong enough to stop them, but it grinds them up.
Only they're determined on one thing--and it was all Chapeau and Father Jerome could do to stop them till M.
Chapeau, and run far enough, before I try to stop them; do you know I'm nearly ashamed of what I've been doing as it is.
It is impossible to stop them," said Cathelineau, still standing on the waggon, and speaking to de Lescure, whom he had outran.
Then would you mind telling your Canadian transport drivers to stop going up and down this road; they insist on doing it, and I can't stop them.
That first night if the Germans had simply walked ahead they would have found nothing to stop them, but they were too much dazed with their own success to realize the situation and take advantage of it.
British line in Flanders was actually so thin that if the Germans had tried to advance there was nothing to stop them.
Scarcely had she spoken when down came a gang of rough-looking villains with those long knives of theirs in their hands looking very ferocious, and ready to kill any who might dare to stop them.
Fenn grinned at the prisoner as he added: "If you want the boys, all the tin soldiers and fake cops in the State can't stop them.
The little children were playing in the street--they had begged food at the neighbors' and she had no heart to stop them.
He glared at the policemen and held up his hand to stop them as they came.
I can't stop them, but I know the rough element there will kill you if you try.
Tomorrow they strike, and we will be helpless to stop them.
The important thing is, how can we possibly stop them?
The coachman used every effort to stop them, till he was knocked down.
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