Sentence examples for declared a lockdown from inspiring English sources

Kelsea and Brooke were at Newtown High School, about a mile and a half away from the shooting on Dec. 14 when officials declared a lockdown.

The French government has declared a state of emergency and put the capital city on lockdown.

Soon after, the French government declared a state of emergency and put the capital city on lockdown.

NPR declared a "Soapocalypse".

Such medical evidence led the UN to declare lockdown a potential form of torture and to demand that all countries ban it except in very exceptional circumstances.

What the mayor did not bring up, as he extolled "this historic day for Chester," was the drastic step he had taken the previous weekend — declaring a state of emergency and putting the city's five most violent neighborhoods under a virtual lockdown at night.

Sierra Leone has declared lockdown of at least three days in the north of the country to try to contain the Ebola epidemic.

McDermott declares an interest.

Declaring an Islamic caliphate.

The campus was declared safe, and UCLA officials lifted a lockdown that had canceled classes for the day.

The practice has been increasingly condemned by human rights authorities across the globe, including the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, who declared in a 2011 speech: "Segregation, isolation, separation, cellular, lockdown, Supermax, the hole, Secure Housing Unit... whatever the name, solitary confinement should be banned by States as a punishment or extortion technique".