Sentence examples for controversial closing from inspiring English sources

In 1991, four days after Mayor David N. Dinkins ordered the controversial closing of Engine Company 294, in Richmond Hill, Queens, two brothers died in a house fire nine blocks away.

Now both sides in the case have agreed to further delay the hearing, apparently in an attempt to try to find a way to avoid the controversial closing.

A sellout crowd of 42,500 that included boxing great Muhammad Ali came out hoping to see the controversial closer get into the game.

"He was very controversial, close to the state and all that that entails," a Berlin opera insider said, as Pischner walked past us.

Crédit Lyonnais (slogan: "the power to say yes") clearly found it difficult to say "No" to several controversial businessmen close to the Socialist Party.

The report recognises that some medium-sized hospitals would have to stay open because it would be too controversial to close them.

Giambi's shot bailed out the controversial Cleveland closer Chris Perez, who had given up two homers in the top of the ninth.

Losers always make noises about how important and great the process is even if they suffer a controversial or close defeat, a la Al Gore, and even if they sympathize with Dick Tuck (seriously that was his name), who after losing the 1966 race for California State Senate quipped, "The voters have spoken, the bastards".

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Thus Saul Bellow, 13 years pre-Regis, in his foreword to Allan Bloom's controversial book "The Closing of the American Mind".

Controversial proposals include closing four community hospitals and transferring care for seriously ill babies to England.