Sentence examples for close confinement from inspiring English sources

For one thing, they are forced to work more closely with their legislatures, if only because of the close confinement of the states and capitals, said Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico, a Republican.

That is, how do we squeeze one more pig per litter out of a sow (gestation stalls and farrowing crates), how do we decrease the amount of grain it takes to put on one pound of flesh (antibiotics and closely tailored feed rations), how do we best distribute fixed costs (close confinement), how do we best decrease labor costs (slatted concrete floors, close confinement, and automation)?

In the close confinement of an Arctic winter, quarrels arose.

But his close confinement undermined his health; contracting tuberculosis, he died in the Tower.

Debtors who couldn't pay their fines were sentenced to "close confinement".

Keeping animals in such close confinement enables disease to spread rapidly.

As always, Clarkson and the abolitionists were strictly accurate; the ship had once carried over 600 slaves in even closer confinement, but they did not want to be accused of exaggeration.

In the summer, the privations of the captivity, including their closer confinement at the Ipatiev House negatively affected the family.

As I did so, I remembered all those Jack London stories of cabins in the woods, and that led me, somehow or other, to Jack Nicholson shoving his face through the door in The Shining, twisted and maniacal with bloodlust, a man driven to homicidal insanity by his wife and child after a few days of close-confinement backwoods-fever.

'Working on a train means getting on with each other,' says attendant Ann Alindada, encapsulating the challenge of serving haute cuisine in close, unsteady confinement.

New commitments to child rights Following the advocacy tour, the Moldovan Ministry of Justice made a commitment to close solitary confinement cells.