call a halt

1. Order something stopped, as in It was getting too dark to see the ball, so the referee called a halt to the match, or They'd played the march four times, so the conductor called a halt to the rehearsal. [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

While the TV concert remains a permanent representation of a remarkable live show run — one unlikely to be duplicated in the near future, even by someone like Taylor Swift — Cohen and Joel both agreed that the 150-show mark was the appropriate time to call a halt.

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In an article published in February in Significance, a publication of the Royal Society of Statistics, she wrote: “It is time to call a halt on the erasure of sex in data collection.”

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Gen Surovikin had last been seen in public in a video during the mutiny urging the Wagner forces to call a halt to their action.

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A Change.org petition was launched on Aug 1, demanding that Warner Bros and Universal Pictures, the studio behind "Oppenheimer", call a halt to the #Barbenheimer hashtag on social media.

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He couldn’t call a halt to their investigations or indictments, although if he were indicted after reelection, he could probably delay the case until the end of his term.

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