The German authorities then aggravated the evils of industrial stoppage by forbidding public works and commandeering the factories and metals and leather for military purposes.
They also fixed April 23 for the stoppage of all work as an earnest of this resolve and to enable all workers to sign the pledge of resistance.
The completestoppage of work was duly observed on the day mentioned, and passed off for the most part in a quiet and orderly manner.
If the drain from a basin, sink or tub fails to carry away the water, the stoppage may be removed with a small plumber's pump (Fig.
If the holes should be clogged, remove the stoppage with a wire hair-pin (Fig.
To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.
Quarantine is now applied also to any forced stoppage of travel or communication on account of malignant contagious disease, on land as well as by sea.
Through a country, the principal features of which are of this description, the trail is followed, and the monotony of the journey is only relieved by an occasional stoppageat a refreshing spring of water.
At present, San Francisco is a city of about thirty thousand inhabitants, and in spite of the repeated visitations of the calamity of destructive fire, it has suffered no stoppage in its rapid progress.
I was wakened up by the stoppage of the train at the Reno station, when I shook myself up, and went out to have a look round me.
At Cheyenne, we have another stoppage for refreshment.
After a stoppage of twenty minutes, the big bell tolled, and we seated ourselves in the cars again; and away we went as before, still toiling up-hill.
The conductor, coming through the car, informs us that we shall soon be at Humboldt, where there will be twenty minutes' stoppagefor breakfast.
Footnote 20: Upon trial for desertion and conviction of absence without leave only, the court may, in addition to the limit prescribed for such absence, award a stoppage of the amount paid for apprehension.
Of course, former Ambassador White wrote without having the Embassy records at hand and those records show that the position he took at the time of this alleged stoppage was eminently correct.
White's autobiography with reference to the alleged stoppage in a German port of a boat laden with arms and ammunition, for use against the Americans in Cuba during the Spanish War.
We have--on our hypothesis--to provide against the stoppage of our supply for one year, and that the very next year.
But beginning with December, 1861, there was almost complete stoppage of supply from America.
He protested that such ships violated the neutrality of Great Britain and demanded their stoppage and seizure.
Very evidently someone, presumably Derby or Disraeli, had put a quietus on the plan to make an issue of the stoppage of Southern ship-building.
The dictatorship of the proletariat led rapidly to an almost complete stoppage of industry.
This stoppage necessarily delayed the rest of the cavalcade.
The depression was accentuated by the financial crisis in America, which affected adversely the wool trade, and in a more marked degree the diamond trade, leading to the partial stoppage of the Kimberley mines.
After a short stoppage we proceeded onwards again through sombre gorges, rocky defiles, and verdant valleys.
The "self-determination" of the villages produced a stoppage of supplies, and the villages were thus left to starve; not to mention the moral ordeal of the class which was subjected to insults and degradation.
They were already dreadfully tired of travelling before their night's stoppage came.
The stoppage for the night was brightened by the appearance of the young man, and his manners were all that could be desired and his French quite serviceable.
It was a stoppage and delay upon the road the child must traverse, slowly at the best, before the goal was reached.
The greater part of this observation, she made while walking towards them, for her stoppage had been momentary.
All of a sudden, I was thrown forward against the opposite window by the stoppage of the postchaise.
The result was the not unnatural one of a stoppage and visible embarrassment on the part of the performer.
Thus, the necessity for specie was increased at the very moment that the supply was diminished; and the general stoppage of the Western banks, was the inevitable and natural result of these combined circumstances.
A great many mechanics are thrown out of employment by thestoppage of building.
A stoppageof a supply of indigo for one year, would prostrate all our manufactories, and give them a blow from which they would not recover in many years.
The stoppage at New York by this steamer returning northward could not be beyond one or two days.
I suggested the far cheaper plan of a naval occupation of the port of Smyrna, and the collection and stoppage of customs and dues.
Any check orstoppage in their course would cause loss of time and prestige.
In places where the water comes streaming in from many points, any failure or stoppage of the pumps would place the lives of the miners, and the security of the work itself, in great jeopardy.
When the first or absolutely necessary part of the work was done, a stoppage of a few years might well take place, and it is well to try and call up before our eyes the appearance of the church during this interval.
Every one who looks carefully at the buttresses of the north aisle of the nave will see that, though the general effect of all is the same, yet at two different points there are minute differences, showing change or stoppage of work.
And of such a stoppage and fresh beginning we may see clear signs at this particular point of the building.
We used to think that while the nervous system sent down positive impulses--that is, nervous stimuli which brought about the accomplishment of certain activities--it had nothing to do with the stoppage of those activities.
If the mouth-breathing is due to stoppage of the nostrils, this must be relieved.
To advise the sudden stoppage of regular quantities of spirits that have been taken for some time, will sometimes produce an anemic headache and defeat the purpose of the advice.
A stoppage for their knapsacks was the ground of complaint which excited the mutinous spirit, which occasioned the men to surround their officers and demand what they deem their arrears.
Great dissatisfaction had for a day or two been strongly expressed by the men, in consequence of a stoppage of some portion of their pay having been made for gaiters.
The railroads have suffered greatly through the cancellation of registered orders and by the stoppage of further orders from Poland, also by the military mobilization.
The lack of fuel was very severely felt in the provinces of Petrograd and in the Baltic, owing to the stoppage of the importation of British coal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoppage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
