But the increase would certainly have slammed the brakes on an economy that's still running very hot.

"The clash between the different forces has slammed the brakes on the entire process of change."

I slammed the brakes on and hung a hard left, heading across town.

Then there were small children racing in front of the jeep, and he slammed the brakes on.

He drove to the foot of the hill and slammed the brakes on, startled, looking up.

I nearly slammed the brakes on and went back for it, but I didn't have time.

I slammed the brakes on and was glad I'd worn my seat belt.

Shrevvie slammed the brakes on as the four people ran across in front of the cab.

I slowed the pickup over to the side of the junction and slammed the brakes on.

David Smith: luxury car customers slammed the brakes on orders

Peugeot officials fear that a strike could slam the brakes on the momentum the company has built up since 1982.

Colonel Cathcart almost turned the jeep over when he slammed the brakes on at the control tower.

Governments slammed the brakes on growth - in ways that ranged from curbing spending to raising interest rates.

He responded by slamming the brakes on inflation, freezing roughly 80 percent of the money in virtually all bank accounts for 18 months.

Delta, though, is one of only two counties in the West to slam the brakes on coal-bed methane.

A steeper decline in housing prices could slam the brakes on consumer spending and curtail economic growth.

Those stubbornly high fuel prices show how external shocks can slam the brakes on the pace of this recovery.

The independent central bank had to slam the brakes on money-supply growth by raising interest rates, and business growth plummeted.

Exports actually expanded slightly in the last three months, but consumers spent less money, and businesses slammed the brakes on investment and hiring.

It is time for someone to slam the brakes on before the politics of the moment drives the security of the American people off a cliff."

Wall Street, shaken by the turmoil in the stock market, is slamming the brakes on what had been the greatest boom in American financial history.

Dahybi slammed the brakes on.

It dismissed some top veterans in its bond and risk management departments and slammed the brakes on growth in emerging markets.

Lotsa Smoke tried to slam the brakes on the ATV.

(There are plenty of homages, but they're unobtrusive and they don't slam the brakes on the story's momentum.)