Sentence examples for closing as a from inspiring English sources

Sure Start programmes and children's centres are closing as a result of public sector budget cuts.

Yet it was also a bittersweet moment for her, since DeWitt Clinton, the high school whose alumni include the writer James Baldwin and A. M. Rosenthal, a former executive editor of The Times, has been better known in recent years for being a candidate for closing as a failing school.

But in the past few years the DAX index of Germany's top companies has slumped even further than the stockmarkets in New York, London and Paris, and Frankfurt's much-vaunted Neuer Markt for high-tech shares, having lost 90% of its value in the past two years, is closing as a separate market early next year.

Several blue-chip partnerships are closing as a spate of new operations emerge to carry on the traditional business of venture capital: raising money for young entrepreneurs with great promise and helping shepherd them along until they can sell shares in their companies to the public.

Eli Friedman, a Cornell University labour expert, said the crackdown appeared designed to warn workers that unrest would not be tolerated at a time when many factories were either closing as a result of China's slowing economy or relocating to parts of south and south-east Asia where costs were lower.

After closing as a school in 1997, the site has most recently been used as a Sure Start children's centre.

The shop was closed as a mark of respect yesterday.

(The academy ultimately closed as a high school in June 2008).

The Beltway is closed as a crash investigation was underway.

Some are expected to close as a result.

Two schools closed as a result of flooding – Kirkhall and Culter.