Sentence examples for closing thousands from inspiring English sources

In response, China's cabinet in May passed a series of measures to cut energy use, including closing thousands of factories with outdated equipment.

As customers continue to abandon the mailbox for the Internet, the post office is considering ending Saturday delivery and closing thousands of branches.

MOSCOW — When Russia carried out sweeping restrictions on gambling this month, closing thousands of casinos and slots parlors, their owners grasped at a small loophole.

The melamine scandal has been a huge embarrassment for Beijing, which late last year had completed a nationwide food safety crackdown that involved closing thousands of illegal food factories and conducting food safety checks on small food producers.

Page A9 National POSTAL SERVICE ALTERS PLAN TO DOWN ITS COSTS The United States Postal Service said that it would keep hundreds of small post offices open by reducing business hours or offering stamps and packaging in grocery stores, whittling down its ambitious plan to streamline its services and balance its books by closing thousands of post offices.

WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service said Wednesday that it would keep hundreds of small post offices open by reducing business hours or offering stamps and packaging in grocery stores, whittling down its ambitious plan to streamline its services and balance its books by closing thousands of post offices.

A We want to close 36th Street and use it as a back lot.

Permission had been obtained from Enright (first time in history) to close 42nd.

The city plan would close 34th Street to non-bus traffic in the block between the Empire State Building and Macy's.

A recently closed 20th-century art extravaganza at Tate Modern was the most spectacularly bad show in memory, a kind of distinction, too, I suppose.

The police, who did not release the charges against the suspects, later closed 44th Street to pedestrians and let people enter the hotel only in groups of 10.