At every step, she'd been able to stop the process, to escape.

The only way to stop the process is to drain the power down completely.

"We have only minutes to spare, and there is nothing I can do here to stop the process."

But they have not found a way to stop the process.

This gives the person the opportunity to stop the process.

"They have stopped the process in some of the churches."

I don't know whether we can stop the process now.

But he discovered that it was too late to stop the legal process.

Then she, too, stopped the natural process with firm fingers.

That in itself is not yet a reason to stop the process.