Sentence examples for close vital from inspiring English sources

In recent days, the Iranians have held naval war games, threatened to close vital Persian Gulf oil shipping lanes, test-fired two new missiles and announced the production of their first nuclear-fuel rod.

Good NHS hospitals which have been forced to close vital wards might be encouraged by patients to reopen them: their funding would come from the premium, not the system.

When faced with an earlier fiscal crisis, in 1994, the city decided to close vital-records offices in every borough but Manhattan.

An article in Business Day on Wednesday about plans by Fairchild Publications to close Vitals Man and Vitals Woman magazines misstated the timing of an increase in the advertising circulation base for Domino, a shopping magazine published by Condé Nast Publications, the parent of Fairchild.

As the government gradually closed vital facilities such as the health clinic, school and police station, and eventually shut off the town's power and water, people were left with no choice but to move out, says Ms Solonec.

The close and vital relationship between the totem and the clan is shown in a definite ceremony: the yearly offering to the chief spirit of the ancestral hill.

Middle East experts express doubts that Iran will follow through on its threats to stop supplying European customers or close the vital oil sea lanes of the Strait of Hormuz.

LIKE railway tracks that appear to converge but never actually intersect, the project to get the world's big economies to use the same accounting standards cannot quite close a vital gap.

The ones in Okinawa are critically important because they are close to vital shipping lanes and are near to China and Taiwan.

Home of the ancient city of Carthage, Tunisia was once an important player in the Mediterranean, placed as it is in the centre of North Africa, close to vital shipping routes.

Cancer took hold again, and it was growing precariously close to vital systems, like her spinal cord.