arrestation

Example Sentences

• "[…] he had continued [the treatment] to the day on which I saw him […] with relief of pain and improvement of his general feelings, but without any arrestation of his decline in strength and weight;"
• "We realise that the results of the war are revealed not only in the total of lives lost or wrecked […] but on the ruin of the fabric of Society, […] the arrestation of progress moral and material […]"
• "While arrestation of physiological maturation may occur on the basis of inhibiting emotional factors, one cannot make the general statement that the stronger the prohibitions, the greater is the delay in sexual maturation."
• "[…] in most of Europe […] population stagnated or actually declined during the seventeenth century. This arrestation of population growth […] was particularly noticeable in Spain, central Europe, Poland, and Italy,"
• "Different hypnotists use different methods of inducing this condition, but the main factor in all of them is the fixation and arrestation of the attention and the use of suggestion."
• "1794, Helen Maria Williams, letter dated September 1794 in Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1795, Volume 1, p. 4, […] the arrestation of the English residing in France was decreed by the national convention;"