Sentence examples for closes off access from inspiring English sources
Though Egypt ends up occupying the Gaza strip and Transjordan takes East Jerusalem and the West Bank, Israel ends up bigger than the UN partition plan had proposed.1956: Egypt nationalises the Suez Canal and closes off access to the Israeli port of Eilat.
Officials at the museum closed off access to "Sunflower Seeds," and is now only allowing visitors to see it from a walkway above the hall.
"As the McCain campaign closed off access and took up press-bashing, we had to be on guard for the opposite," Keller said.
On some late-night subway trains last week, New York City Transit closed off access to half the cars in a crime-fighting experiment, police officials said yesterday.
According to state media, last year police closed off access to an elevated viewing platform and to the nearest subway station in an attempt to control the crowd.
When we were there in May, flashing lights warned us of the police roadblock that had closed off access to the church weeks ago, after the Chinese government ordered it to be pulled down.
It also denounced members of the Nobel committee as "clowns"; hastily organized its own, competing peace prize; shut down Web sites referring to Mr. Liu; and blacked out broadcasts and closed off access to the Web sites of foreign news media outlets like CNN and the BBC.
He said that the secret service had closed off access to the press corral, but that he'd try to get me in through the general entry. .
If an attack on these more accessible targets would cause more harm (more killings etc)., closing off access to the most attractive targets could actually increase the expected harm of explosive attacks.
