What's the difference between hale and halt?

Hale


Definition:

  • (a.) Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
  • (n.) Welfare.
  • (v. t.) To pull; to drag; to haul.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hale-Stoner mice (6 to 8 weeks old) were injected with 7 X 10(5) CFU of Candida albicans 336 isolated from a patient.
  • (2) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
  • (3) Stephen Hale, Green Alliance director, said: "Ed Miliband's first major decision suggests he gets it.
  • (4) Phase 1 studies of "in vivo purging" with a monovalent CD3 antibody (Clark et al., 1989), and also with a genetically engineered humanized IgG1 (CAMPATH-1H) (Hale et al., 1988b) suggest that these limitations can be overcome.
  • (5) It will also star Tony Hale, known for his hapless characters in Arrested Development and Veep, and Natasha Lyonne, currently enjoying a career renaissance for her role in Netflix series Orange is the New Black.
  • (6) Asked what it felt like being the only woman justice, Hale said: "Most of the time you are not conscious of it.
  • (7) The Bank confirmed that the governor had had a private lunch with Hale, but said it had been two months ago.
  • (8) Three analyses are reported that are based on data from 19 studies using lexical tasks and a reduced version of the Hale, Myerson, and Wagstaff (1987) nonlexical data set.
  • (9) "One might just as well say that logically, on Lady Hale's approach, it would be irrational not to supply a night carer to take the client to the commode, irrespective of cost, if there is any likelihood of the client having to urinate even once during the night."
  • (10) Lady Hale's judgment adds weight to calls from the House of Lords select committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 last week for the safeguards to be replaced with procedures which provide an independent check on a person's care, but which are more in keeping with the ethos of the Act."
  • (11) The home secretary also announced that the Metropolitan police had agreed to investigate allegations by a journalist, Don Hale, that a file of allegations involving prominent people, including MPs, passed to him by Barbara Castle, had been seized from him by special branch officers.
  • (12) But as the deputy president of the court, Lady Hale, pointed out in the ruling [pdf] : “It cannot possibly be in the best interests of the children affected by the cap to deprive them of the means to provide them with adequate food, clothing, warmth and housing, the basic necessities of life.” The court urged the government to review the cap accordingly.
  • (13) Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond (supreme court judge) 5.
  • (14) In the case of CGL in chronic phase, there is also an associated extra risk of relapse, particularly in patients where engraftment may have been compromised (Hale et al., 1988a).
  • (15) The former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said Hale had pro-EU views and warned that it was not the job of judges to tell parliament what to do.
  • (16) Examples include parts of the Varsity Line between Oxford and Cambridge, Lea Bridge station between Stratford and Tottenham Hale, which reopened in May after the council provided £5m in funding, and in Bristol, work to reopen the Portishead line will begin in 2018 .
  • (17) At a press conference convened at Cornelius's Romanian-Italian restaurant in Tottenham Hale, north London, he questioned the actions of Ukip candidates "scapegoating" immigrants.
  • (18) Hales believes there is the goodwill to pull it off.
  • (19) In an additional judgment, Lady Hale , deputy president of the court, said she had "some sympathy for the view of the Strasbourg court that our present law [on prisoner voting] is arbitrary and indiscriminate.".
  • (20) Histochemical methods were used for the detection of glycogen (periodic acid-Schiff), acid mucopolysaccharides (Hale) and acid phosphatases (Gomori) by light microscopy.

Halt


Definition:

  • () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.
  • (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.
  • (v. i.) To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.
  • (v. i.) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.
  • (v. t.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.
  • (a.) Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
  • (n.) The act of limping; lameness.
  • (a.) To walk lamely; to limp.
  • (a.) To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (2) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
  • (3) An otherwise progressive rise in blood ammonia concentration was halted in the treatment group.
  • (4) It inherited an economy that was growing quite strongly but activity came to an abrupt halt last autumn and has flatlined ever since.
  • (5) The further disappearance of laboratory exercises from the curriculum should be halted by efforts to revitalize them.
  • (6) What we’re saying is the advertising is false.” Prosecutors are not asking the court to halt the company’s services while the suit proceeds.
  • (7) Britain is being urged to halt the supply of weapons to its ally Saudi Arabia in the light of evidence that civilians are being killed in Saudi-led attacks on rebel forces in Yemen .
  • (8) Vomiting ceased in 85% of the symptomatic patients; pulmonary deterioration was halted, and the frequency of aspiration pneumonia was reduced in 68%; nutritional improvement was seen in 44%; the hydration status improved in 88%; and the frequency of hospital admissions decreased in 74%.
  • (9) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.
  • (10) Trains in the northern Netherlands were halted, Dutch Railways said.
  • (11) We have described methods to prepare ternary complexes halted at defined positions along the DNA template, using specific dinucleotides to prime chain initiation along with limited subsets of the NTP substrates.
  • (12) The AP reports: The incremental assistance would be aimed both at bolstering the Ukrainian military as it seeks to halt the advances of pro-Russian forces in the east, as well as showing symbolic U.S. support for Ukraine's efforts.
  • (13) Occupy activists have lost their case at the court of appeal to halt their eviction from an abandoned London building that previously housed the multinational banking giant, UBS.
  • (14) Protests against the four grocers will be halted while agreements over the new price for milk are finalised.
  • (15) Serum amino transferase values need to be checked once during the 1st 3-6 months of use, although routine liver tests have been halted.
  • (16) The construction of Fab 42 was halted in 2014 , following a slump in PC sales, but analysts don’t believe Trump is the reason it’s been restarted.
  • (17) In my case the phone went silent after a couple of weeks and the programme I worked on then came to an abrupt halt.
  • (18) I appeal to the king of Saudi Arabia to exercise his power to halt the public flogging by pardoning Mr Badawi, and to urgently review this type of extraordinarily harsh penalty.” Badawi’s case was one of several recent prosecutions of activists.
  • (19) The case for halting British arms sales to Saudi Arabia has been evident, not only on moral grounds, since civilians started dying in the conflict devastating Yemen.
  • (20) UN envoy Staffan De Mistura halted the latest Syria talks on 3 February, because of major differences between the two sides, exacerbated by increased aerial bombings and a wide military offensive by Syrian troops and their allies under the cover of Russian airstrikes.

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