Example collocations logo

Closed in sentence

1735 examples of Closed in a sentence

With everyone accepting sacrifices, it might have been possible to reach an accord on liberalizing closed professions and on comprehensive tax reform.
With every vested interest fighting for itself, closed professions proved impossible to pry open.
Public transport closed, and many people couldn’t get to their jobs.
In recent decades, mental institutions and halfway houses have been closed in a wholesale way, often in the name of reforming care.
Even several grand titles have either closed down or publish only online.
I have spent hundreds of hours working behind closed doors with various parties to the conflict – Sudan’s Government, rebel leaders, neighbouring countries, and African Union partners.
This involves moving beyond the closed, question-and-answer process typical of the lab, and applying our ideas in society, earlier and more frequently than ever before.
After a few months, these popular forums were brought to an abrupt halt, as security services enforced a stringent set of regulations that effectively closed these open gatherings.
Since 2004, 10% of all small-market newspapers have closed or merged.
As recently as three years ago, many observers thought that the Fund had outlived its usefulness and should be closed down.
Even if the economy grows at 2.5% in 2012, as most forecasts anticipate, the jobs deficit will remain – and will not be closed until 2024.
Before Greek banks closed and capital controls were imposed in late June, the European Commission put the primary budget deficit for this year at €4-6 billion ($4.3-6.5 billion), or 2-3% of GDP.
Could this be why men who in the past could take time-delayed steps to conduct affairs behind closed doors now can’t resist the impulse to send a self-incriminating text message?
That gap can be closed rapidly through the adoption and imitation of existing technologies, which improve productivity, and through high rates of accumulation of physical capital, owing to higher returns on investment.
The relatively independent Nanfang Daily Group , whose members include 21st Century World Herald and the Guangzhou-based liberal magazine Southern Breeze , was closed by the government for "redesign."
The Hong Kong newspaper The South China Morning Post reported that it would have been closed, permanently, if not for the personal intervention of Hu Jingtao, China's new president and communist party chairman.
As for the role of the Russian state, that evidence came from MI6, the British secret service, and was presented in a closed session of the inquiry.
In a closed economy with capital controls, that could be achieved through many years of financial repression, with interest rates on bank liabilities kept lower than the rate of inflation.
At worst, the US might have become a more closed, suspicious country, retreating from the openness that has been its hallmark.
One study calculated that the American median-income earner would lose 29% of his or her purchasing power if the country were to be closed to trade; the poorest in the US would forfeit as much as 62% of their purchasing power.
And that could prove to be even more difficult, because the current closed nature of the medical-information system and its self-directed incentive structure block such sharing.
But any change in the terms and dates of the election will inevitably lead to the formation of a more severe, more closed political regime, one orientated towards the creation of the "state capitalism" economic model, with near total state control in the financial sphere and an economy dominated by vertically organized large state-owned or state-controlled corporations.
While the open, meritocratic selection of “scholar-officials” helped to sustain China’s closed dynastic governance structure for more than 2,000 years, it could not offset the system’s growing fragility under the Qing Dynasty, as territorial gains increased the empire’s population from 150 million to 450 million.
Communities could be walled off, national borders closed, and travel could be restricted or even suspended.
Egypt’s closed political system, by contrast, has left the government constantly in fear of the street.
The near-panic conditions in financial markets eased as soon as rumors spread that this solution had at least been discussed behind closed doors.
As a result, though the region continues to be beset by serious problems, the gates of hell have remained closed – as they have in Rwanda.
According to the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report, Sub-Saharan Africa has closed the disparity in economic empowerment by only 68%, with women still far more likely to be unemployed, underemployed, or hold precarious employment in the informal sector.
Closed political systems and stagnant economies in the Muslim world, they contend, are symptoms, not causes.
The problem is that Turkey initially closed the border precisely because of Nagorno-Karabakh, rather than any bilateral issue.
BackNext