Sentence examples for called for its closure from inspiring English sources

Although they occasionally expressed concern about various aspects of the plant's operation, none ever called for its closure.

The Northern Territory government is under increasing pressure to find an alternative to detaining children in the controversial Don Dale youth detention centre after a scathing report called for its closure.

In a separate letter to Mr. Chertoff dated Aug. 25, Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat of New York, agreed that substantial upgrades were needed at the Plum Island laboratory but said "it goes a step too far to call for its closure".

A petition launched by Colonel Morris Davis, the former Guantánamo chief prosecutor, calling for its closure attracted 64,000 signatures in less than 24 hours.

Protesters have regularly converged at Campsfield calling for its closure and detainees have embarked on hunger strikes to raise the profile of their treatment and conditions, which they claimed were cruel and inhumane.

"And now," he said, "we are asking the question we always ask: Where are all these people going to go?" County supervisors have ranged from defending the center to calling for its closure.

Although critics still exist – the London Evening Standard columnist Anne McElvoy described BBC3 last month as: "Young, dumb and living off the rest of us" – there is no longer a cacophony of voices calling for its closure.

Up to 500 people, led by former detainees and the Movement for Justice, descended on Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre this weekend, calling for its closure.

The OSRD continued to function actively until some time after the end of hostilities, but by 1946 47 it had been reduced to a minimal staff charged with finishing work remaining from the war period; Bush was calling for its closure even before the war had ended.

The transients' hideaway has been around since at least the 1980s, which is about when the calls for its closure began.

The detention center had just been branded "the gulag of our times" by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure.