The matka business had come to a virtual standstill around 2003.

How, we wonder, could our country - an industrial power - be so quickly brought to a virtual standstill?

After the initial assault, the Race's troops come to a virtual standstill.

"New construction has come to a virtual standstill," he said.

Work on the new railroad was at a virtual standstill throughout much of 1908.

In fact, the entire town came to a virtual standstill then.

But job growth slowed sharply again in June and came to a virtual standstill last month.

This is an emergency, but the negotiations are at a virtual standstill.

With the end of the war, operations at the base came to a virtual standstill.

The relief program has come to a virtual standstill, though a few hundred of these officials are still in the country.