The phrase "a closing of locks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to the act of securing or shutting locks, often in relation to a physical location or metaphorical situation.
Example: "After the last customer left, there was a closing of locks that signaled the end of the business day."
Alternatives: "a locking of doors" or "a securing of locks".
The positive DNA findings were announced on the same day the United States Supreme Courtdenied a request by the State of Michigan for an emergency injunction to force the closing of the locks of a Chicago shipping canal that gives direct access to the lake -- a coincidence that drew intensified calls for help from some Great Lakes states.
They have sued Illinois to prevent that from happening.. Tour-boat companies, barge operators, recreational boaters and others have cried out against one proposal: the intermittent closing of two locks that connect the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to Lake Michigan.
Mr. Brammeier and some others called for the immediate closing of the lock on the Calumet River that still sits between the signs of the fish and Lake Michigan, though others doubted it was feasible to stop shipping traffic through that lock.
Opening and closing of the locking chamber are carried out by the K@C601+endohedral complex displacement, which is done by the electric field action.
The company recorded in the fourth quarter $10 million in costs related to the closing of a Kwikset lock plant in Bristow, Okla., and the cutting of 750 jobs.
In a case that has just reached the United States Supreme Court, Michigan is suing Illinois and the Army Corps to force the closing of two canal locks that give a direct route into the lake.
When a Michigan-sponsored study that was released last month claimed that the closing of two key locks leading into Lake Michigan would cost the Illinois economy only $70 million, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce began a new research effort intended to counter what it saw as an outrageously low estimate.
Closing a discussion locks the thread from further commenting.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will speed up their study of the feasibility of permanently closing the locks.
Lord Mandelson hit the phones to lock in key Cabinet ministers – most importantly, the Foreign Secretary David Miliband, a close friend of Mr Purnell.
