Sentence examples for closing it off from inspiring English sources
Normally the agency charges for the use of its data, and imposes strict copyright rules which prevent its reuse - effectively closing it off from use online, where redistribution and reuse can magnify the usefulness of data.
Mr. Abbas has been cooperating with Israeli and American efforts to isolate Hamas in Gaza and increase pressure on its leaders there by closing it off to normal trade or travel, either through Israel or Egypt.
The explosion that sank the drilling rig came less than a day after workers finished pumping concrete into the well, a step toward closing it off temporarily.
"From my point of view, it's a public park, and they're closing it off and privatizing it for people to make money," Ms. Porter said.
The closet was a shallow cavity with a wooden rod braced across, a faded cretonne curtain on a string closing it off from the rest of the room.
But since the church bought the block from the city three years ago for $8.1 million, closing it off to vehicles but not pedestrians, the sides have wrestled over its control.
The company had left the database unguarded but closed it off when Mr. Gevers inquired.
A contractor added cabinet doors to close it off from the kitchen.
The tales were exaggerated but not without foundation, for four or five bootleggers who had sizable operations there had effectively closed it off to the law.
