How To Use Close down In A Sentence
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In September 1971, Malek was put in charge of a White House effort to close down leaks to reporters of nonclassified material from the administration.
Fred Malek: It's not the 'Jew-counting,' it's the deception
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The specter of death lingers over the entire film, both figuratively with Tommy Lee Jones as a corporate "axeman" sent to close down the show after one last performance and literally, in the form of Virginia Madsen's angel in a white trenchcoat, a noirish avatar of death who Altman credits as the "Dangerous Woman" even though she's given an actual name in the film.
Archive 2008-11-01
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The firm has decided to close down its Chicago branch.
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Concerning the revival of Kurdish terrorism, the army is privately warning that it will close down the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in neighboring Iraq if no one else does.
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Higher costs of operation forced many smaller local businesses to either move outside of their long-established sites in central Austin or close down business completely.
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AND, they shrieked even louder that the district must not close down the local jr high (in order to aggregate more children into a single location so that broader education could be offered tailored to the needs and interests of each individual child). never under estimate the non-linear nature of the results of screaming bug-eyed single mothers with limited information and rationality (and more children than money) shrieking about 'the children'.
Page One of My Next Book, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Last year, representatives from several indie music labels infiltrated a private BitTorrent tracker with the aim of gathering information on both users and admins and using that data to force it to close down.
TorrentFreak
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The business could become less profitable or, even worse , could close down.
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The sudden outbreak of the epidemic SARS produced much influence and impact on the travel agencies in China, making a lot of them close down, reduce their staff and even become bankrupt.
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Complete transection causes the artery to quickly retract and close down, and this promotes clotting of the blood.
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Called upon to evict the residents of a hotel on the grounds it is a fire hazard, Fry gets caught up in a massive police operation to close down an internet porn ring.
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By refusing to work they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces because the company will close down.
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A visiting nut-job from the USA tells us to close down all prisons.
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Despite this politicians "in their wisdom" decided to stop all police recruiting and to close down all the colleges with the exception of one "because of a lack of funds and to 'rationalise' training".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He gives monosyllabic answers to the simplest of questions in a vain attempt to close down any area of questioning about his public life.
The Sun
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However, once they start to close down, they can be some of the most imploded, recalcitrant white wines out there during their period of hibernation, and will often only show a dusty, chalky soil component on both the nose and palate that often give the impression of corkiness.
Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
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And it is well known that when algae proliferate, their toxic blooms can wipe out a region's aquaculture or close down its seafood restaurants.
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The firm has decided to close down its Chicago branch.
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Their factory had to close down for good.
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Most television and radio stations close down at 12:00 pm.
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Ed was my Syracuse University classmate, thus no spring chicken, but he refuses to let the new lingo close down his communicativeness.
No Uncertain Terms
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A combination of internal and external factors caused the company to close down.
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And he feared that overt papal condemnation might look well, but would close down other options, and would rebound on hapless victims by provoking retaliation.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Concerning the revival of Kurdish terrorism, the army is privately warning that it will close down the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in neighboring Iraq if no one else does.
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I don't know what is more extraordinary: the inability of the Labour Party to close down this story or the lengths to which petty party officials will go to undermine their own leader.
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The employees of these circuses too will face a crisis situation once the businesses close down.
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If I play my cards right, we could close down his drug smuggling, his gunrunning and his people trafficking.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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So why are we allowing schools and local authorities to close down libraries?
Times, Sunday Times
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I came off my line to close down the angle, but somehow managed to make contact with Cora, bringing her to ground, in what looked like an unceremonious challenge.
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The trial judge held the defendants liable for failing to close down that part of the factory.
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The business could become less profitable or, even worse , could close down.
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The other thing of note is, if a couple of emails and a letter gets a blogger to close down his blog, what if you got a writ of summons?
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On the back of this agitation, the new law entrenched police powers to close down brothels and punish soliciting.
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We will close down loopholes in agency worker laws that allow firms to undercut directly employed staff.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their factory had to close down for good.
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Either it reappointed her, appearing to close down the transparency of the appointment process, or it advertised her job, apparently undermining her independence.
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And he feared that overt papal condemnation might look well, but would close down other options, and would rebound on hapless victims by provoking retaliation.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Previous successful machinists and craftsmen close down their shops, some taking sales jobs at the new malls and restaurants.
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Prudie is printing your letter as representative of the tons of suggestions that came in about how to close down talky seatmates on planes.
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Give them work and wages as long as you can, and work short time rather than close down.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first thing that should be done is close down all laboratories in this country that are dealing with these deadly retro-viruses.
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Close down Excel and load it again, but this time your command centre worksheet is automatically loaded.
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I think there are some really good recommendations here, for instance, that it should be possible to prosecute a first offence of kerb-crawling, and that there should be greater powers for the police to close down premises.
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We should close down this grotesque spectacle, and grant these performing primates their freedom and their privacy.
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The firm has decided to close down its Chicago branch.
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If the ferry goes, I think I would just close down.
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A combination of internal and external factors caused the company to close down.
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He had his recent 18th birthday party gatecrashed by a huge number of people and as a result had to close down the party much earlier than he would have otherwise.
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Close down the software and run a full scan, using the latest updates to your virus protection program.
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We're going to hammer out the details of how we can pension off Desmond, evict that shady adventurer Hall and close down St Paul's.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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We will close down loopholes in agency worker laws that allow firms to undercut directly employed staff.
Times, Sunday Times
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Carlene Godwin Finney to clabber gangrene close down her place her precious private pleasing place to fill the house to the rafters up past the dimpled tin roof with a rotting smell that stayed for nine days that mortgaged a room on our memories and did not die along with her
“The Afterbirth, 1931″–the Poem : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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The women may close down the village boozer, but they will not shut down the business altogether.
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If they all close down because of competition from big hypermarkets five miles outside town, and you haven't got a car, what do you do?
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Local trading standards officials can close down rogue traders selling imitation goods.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a man, remember, who in his column last weekend urged the Archbishop of Canterbury to close down the Church of England with the words: I tell you this, beardie.
Archive 2008-01-01
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A combination of internal and external factors caused the company to close down.
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On the outbreak of hostilities, diplomatic missions in enemy countries close down and the diplomats depart.
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Then came the bombshell: the factory was to close down.
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They should be able to close down the lane with their length, making it tough for even the bullish Artest and Wells to find much room to operate.
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It is time to call its bluff and close down the entire trough by abolishing the Arts Council and all its works and pomps.
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In Colchester, an outdoor ice rink had to close down after the company who ran the rink went into liquidation.
Times, Sunday Times
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the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students
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So buy in more footage from foreign networks, maybe; close down some of our foreign bureaux.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Then the sky turned faintly pink and in the distance the thinnest, fleeciest clouds stretched in thin bands across the horizon and close down to it, becoming every moment more and more pink.
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons
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The trial judge held the defendants liable for failing to close down that part of the factory.
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And they had to figure out what to name the file, before they could close down the computer and head out into the snow.
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I had the same thing as 'woodsmoke', just got a quick sight of it at close down.
PCLinuxOS-Forums
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So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger.
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We will close down loopholes in agency worker laws that allow firms to undercut directly employed staff.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Rathnew keeper Ken Quirke raced out to close down Mernagh the wing forward fisted a pass to Gill and with only a defender on the line the full forward blasted over the bar.
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To prevent water vapor from escaping through the leaves, tiny surface pores called stomata close down occasionally.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
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Late last Friday, Sony announced that it will close down its diskette production plant in Japan and discontinue world-wide sales of the hard-shelled removable disks by next March.
Sony bids “sayonara” to 3.5-inch floppy disks
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Many holiday resorts are practically deserted on the West coast and some hotels have been forced to close down because of lack of visitors.
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Then came the bombshell: the factory was to close down.
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The immediate impulse for Eurotunnel seeking action to close down Sangatte was the extension by Labour in 1998 of the Carrier Liability Act from airlines to road hauliers.
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The second attempt was made by running in from the stern and passing close down the weather side.
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Over the past five years the number of major traffic incidents that close down major urban arterial roads for hours at a time, has been increasing.
