How To Use Close down In A Sentence
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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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Then came the bombshell: the factory was 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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A combination of internal and external factors caused the company to close down.
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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.
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Local trading standards officials can close down rogue traders selling imitation goods.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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The women may close down the village boozer, but they will not shut down the business altogether.
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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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We will close down loopholes in agency worker laws that allow firms to undercut directly employed staff.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Close down the software and run a full scan, using the latest updates to your virus protection program.
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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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A combination of internal and external factors caused the company to close down.
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If the ferry goes, I think I would just close down.
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The firm has decided to close down its Chicago branch.
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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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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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Close down Excel and load it again, but this time your command centre worksheet is automatically loaded.
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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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So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger.
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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.
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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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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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Then came the bombshell: the factory was to close down.
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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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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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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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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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We will close down loopholes in agency worker laws that allow firms to undercut directly employed staff.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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I had the same thing as 'woodsmoke', just got a quick sight of it at close down.
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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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The trial judge held the defendants liable for failing to close down that part of the factory.
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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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So buy in more footage from foreign networks, maybe; close down some of our foreign bureaux.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students
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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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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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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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Most television and radio stations close down at 12:00 pm.
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Their factory had to close down for good.
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The firm has decided to close down its Chicago branch.
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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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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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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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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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A visiting nut-job from the USA tells us to close down all prisons.
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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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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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Complete transection causes the artery to quickly retract and close down, and this promotes clotting of the blood.
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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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The business could become less profitable or, even worse , could close down.
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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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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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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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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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The firm has decided to close down its Chicago branch.
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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.
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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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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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Previous successful machinists and craftsmen close down their shops, some taking sales jobs at the new malls and restaurants.
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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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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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Their factory had to close down for good.
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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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On the back of this agitation, the new law entrenched police powers to close down brothels and punish soliciting.
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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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The business could become less profitable or, even worse , could close down.
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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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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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So why are we allowing schools and local authorities to close down libraries?
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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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The employees of these circuses too will face a crisis situation once the businesses close down.
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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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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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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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A combination of internal and external factors caused the company to close down.