Sentence examples for action shut from inspiring English sources

The unprecedented action shut down the museum for the day.

Finally, at dark the action shut down completely.

Then he ordered the army's Fourth Division to occupy the building on the night of Jan . 20to block the council from seating a new governor, elected by a council vote of 20 to 2. That action shut down many of the province's basic functions until Feb. 7, when the first occupation ended after behind-closed-doors negotiations in Baghdad that allowed the appointment of an acting governor.

The action shut down the entire mine for a short period and a portion of the mine for over 30 hours.

Ousted by her action shutting down the Greater London Council, he became a member of Parliament in 1987 and sank from view.

The company's many old hands — tenure is expressed in the number of cycle troughs an employee has been through — swung into action, shutting down the costliest of USG's 24 drywall plants and curtailing work at some others.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs believe supermarket bosses need to take drastic action, shutting one in five of their stores if the financial health of the mainstream grocery chains is to recover from the damage being inflicted by the rapid change in shopping habits.

In recent months, Thailand has claimed to have taken decisive action, shutting down all active Rohingya trafficking camps and pushing through a series of hasty reforms in its seafood sector, including requiring boat owners to register migrant workers and undergo new licensing and registration of all boats and equipment to try and stave off the EU ban.

The document was far different in tone and content from the panel's conclusions of two weeks ago that reported no signs of any I.R.A. cooperation in beginning to disarm by a British deadline and that led to Britain's action shutting down the government.

Catalans came out onto the streets on Tuesday to condemn the police action, shutting down traffic, public transport and businesses, and stoking fears about intensifying unrest in a region that makes up one-fifth of the Spanish economy.

But she did take quick action, shutting down heart- and pancreas-transplant programs, which had added prestige but had not brought in money.