Sentence examples for authorities locked from inspiring English sources

The authorities locked them out for a day.

The authorities locked thirty-six crewmen in eight-by-ten-foot cells in a Florida jail.

Authorities locked the doors and kept many students in the building.

Authorities locked down the campus for two hours while they scoured the grounds for any other attackers.

He had published a series of articles criticizing the Jordanian government, and, in response, the authorities locked him up for a month.

Protests by asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru have continued for eight days, with reports authorities locked gates and erected fences to prevent others joining.

Authorities lock down courts and increase police presence at other public facilities.

Under court orders, Savchenko spent one month at Moscow's notorious Serbsky Institute, a psychiatric facility known for helping authorities lock up dissidents during the Soviet era.

"They do not want to see the Palestinian Authority locking us up.

In "The woman and her five would-be lovers", a merchant's daughter overturns the entire medieval system of authority, locking up king, vizier, superintendant and judge in compartments of a cupboard where they urinate on one another.

On one occasion, college authorities reportedly locked the theatre to prevent a performance.