screaming halt

In Vermont, Mitzi Johnson, the Assembly Speaker and a Democrat, said tax revenues “have come to a screaming halt.”

“Helix” is basically a musical coil that begins almost in a dream-like haze and accelerates and thickens and tightens until the overloaded structure comes to a screaming halt just short of the nine-minute mark.

While there is always the potential for a diplomatic disaster at any negotiation involving 194 countries, the agenda for the two-week Doha convention includes an array of highly technical matters but nothing that is likely to bring the process to a screaming halt.

Seemingly a stranger to red lights, Mikoyan blithely walked across streets against traffic, brought cars to a screaming halt.

We touched down about halfway up the runway and came to a screaming halt right at the end.