Meanings of arrest the progress in English

Then a fierce opposition begins, banks and long dikes accumulate to arrest the progress.

South of the lower Amoor are the Shanalin mountains, which arrest the progress of birds.

But this action was not sufficiently decisive to arrest the progress of the Persian arms.

Nothing, however, could arrest the progress of the malady.

The child sank gradually, nor could the surgeon's skill avail to arrest the progress of death.

The eloquence of Red Jacket had been exerted in vain, to arrest the progress of the white men.

He wished, perhaps ignorantly, to arrest the progress of civilization and substitute a slovenly ideal of his own.

England wished to arrest the progress of democratic ideas in France by restoring the rejected Bourbons to the throne.

If they desire to weaken the power of that party, and arrest the progress of slavery agitation, reject it.

It was a bold undertaking to break up the American Union, and to arrest the progress of its benign principles.

With the exception of extraction by primitive and painful methods, nothing efficient is done to arrest the progress of decay.

And Dr. Teale has been quite clear that with proper care it is possible to arrest the progress of the disease.

The best means to arrest the progress of the pestilence in the people's food have occupied the attention of scientific men.

The attendants seemed trying to arrest the progress of the sloughing by drenching the sores with a solution of blue vitriol.

These aspirations have conspicuously been made manifest in their determined and well-organised efforts to arrest the progress of the Germanic aggression.

He told me to be of good courage; that it was not yet too late to arrest the progress of my disease.