However, several plagues and fires halted the prosperity and the town's growth was eventually halted as well.

However heavy machine-gun and mortar fire from the airfield halted any further advance.

Several fires throughout the 1920s and the Great Depression, however, halted the town's rapid growth.

Heavy Japanese machine gun, rifle and mortar fire halted the assault and American forces were forced to withdraw.

Soon after our return, the fire of the company halted the enemy who was pressing forward on a broad front.

The Shadow's fire had halted.

By early evening, fire had halted.

The fire of the field piece halted the advance of the division, which remained isolated from the rest of the Nawab's army.

A 1992 fire halted his plans for a while.

And farther, he saw that the covering fire from the maze itself had long since halted.