Sentence examples for closed in support of from inspiring English sources

Hundreds of schools and businesses closed in support of the protests, including a number of fast food chains like Central American fried chicken outlet Pollo Campero.

The government threatened to expropriate businesses and factories that closed in support of the strike, and underlined the threat by surrounding Polar's headquarters in Caracas and the home of Lorenzo Mendoza and his family with heavily armed SEBIN agents.

In the nation's capital, where visitors found restaurants closed in support of the "Day Without Immigrants" protest, F&ES students met with alumni and employers in international development banks and agencies, conservation NGOs, environmental defense and urban sustainability think tanks, consulting firms, federal agencies and the U.S. Congress.

The case was closed in support of the motion and the plank road company shut down forever.

Egyptian state media have closed ranks in support of the military and its version of the removal of President Mohamed Morsi as well as Monday's killing of 55 supporters of the deposed Islamist leader in a shooting at a protest in Cairo.

Baldwin-Ragaven et al. note that the medical association "closed ranks in support of colleagues who colluded with the security police in the torture and death of detainees [and] also attempted to silence and discredit those doctors who stood up for human rights and who demanded disciplinary action against their colleagues".

A shop owner in Bulanik, in eastern Turkey, fired on a group of Kurdish protesters who attacked his business because he had refused to close it in support of the protests.

The union said 80% of more than 10,000 respondents to an online survey backed closing schools in support of a walkout.

However Turkey's border with Armenia, a state in the Caucasus, was closed by Turkey in support of Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh War and remains closed.

In a mood more festive than angry, they marched in a circle to a salsa beat tattooed out on drums, half-singing, half-shouting "Vieques, Si Navyy, No!" Many stores closed at midday in support of the protest.

But it's not a comfortable situation". Nagib, an Israeli Arab who owns the bakery next door, said he was afraid to speak his mind about the demonstrations, although he closed his shop in support of a nationwide strike by Arab businesses.