Example collocations logo

Closed in sentence

1735 examples of Closed in a sentence

Armenian forces are well dug in and have received a significant boost from Russia’s diversion of heavy weaponry to Armenia from some recently closed Georgian military bases.
Pity the PolicymakersNEWPORT BEACH – I don’t know about you, but whenever I am in an airplane experiencing turbulence, I draw comfort from the belief that the pilots sitting behind the cockpit’s closed door know what to do.
Others, unfortunately, will be vulnerable to even greater stomach-churning turbulence – without the perceived benefit of a closed cockpit door.
In February, the Security Council closed ranks on Syria for only the second time.
The diplomatic Europe, incarnated by EU founding father Jean Monnet, took big, sensitive questions out of the sphere of popular politics and reduced them to manageable technical issues that diplomats could address through bureaucratic compromises behind closed doors.
That distinction – open versus closed – is as politically salient today as traditional left-right distinctions.
Whether this produces harmony or discord depends our frame of mind – open or closed.
Europe’s finance ministers portray the ECB as closed to dialogue.
One of the difficulties of making the case for enlargement is that to sell it in Germany or Austria requires the assurance of closed, watertight eastern borders, while to sell it in Poland, Hungary or the Czech Republic needs the promise of soft, open ones.
Closed and tightly managed R&D operations must be transformed into more fluid, open processes involving collaboration with customers and suppliers.
To face the challenges of the future, they declare, Europe must return to a less uncertain time, when sovereign countries’ closed borders kept foreigners out.
But, with the single currency in place, the road to solving a fiscal crisis through inflation has been closed, as the European Central Bank (ECB) now stands watch over monetary policy.
Over the two last decades, masses of Indians and Chinese have closed the gap (in relative terms) with the rich world.
Alarmed by the public reaction, the Harbin magistrate ordered the case reopened, only to have the suspended sentence confirmed when the case was closed this March.
Debt mounted, and markets are now almost entirely closed to more.
The former leads to a closed society; the latter to an open society.
What they must do before it is too late is to say to all concerned that these are not closed clubs, then formulate a clear program of enlargement that contains a timetable, and explains the logic of that timetable.
The economic, political, and cultural elite is too thin, too uniform, and too closed.
The Caucasus is too small a space for closed borders and explosive conflicts.
Beyond the emotional impact of President Gul’s visit to Yerevan, real improvement in Turkish-Armenian relations requires opening the two countries’ closed border – the last in Europe.
So it is vital for India to increase the inward flow of long-term capital, regardless of whether the capital account is closed or open.
In this context, it is noteworthy that China, with a closed capital account, has foreign-exchange reserves of US$286 billion, four times the size of India's, though China's economy is only double India's size.
Moreover, the US is a large, relatively closed economy.
But more broadly it involves the fact that Japan is just a closed economy, uncompetitive and vigorously defended by bureaucrats and corporate alliances.
Nevertheless, although one-third of the West Bank was closed to Palestinians to make room for a few thousand Jewish settlers, only 10% of its largely rural population were refugees, many owned their land, and a variety of jobs was available.
It also closed half of its excessive number of hospitals and sacked superfluous teachers, of which there was one for every six children before the crisis.
Conspiracy theories thrive in relatively closed societies, where free access to news is limited and freedom of enquiry curtailed.
Japan is no longer such a closed society, yet even people with a short history of democracy are prone to believe that they are victims of unseen forces.
At the moment, our attitude to trade and migration seems to be encapsulated in one simple but contradictory slogan: “Open for business, but closed for foreigners.”
Russia Stays HomeMADRID – Just three days before his return to the Kremlin as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin met behind closed doors at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, outside Moscow, with US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, who was there to transmit President Barack Obama’s renewed determination to strengthen cooperation with Russia.
BackNext