Sentence examples for effort to close it from inspiring English sources

Sadly, without an effort to close it now, it's hard to imagine.

The law firms said the lawsuit is not being brought against the hackers, who have said they attacked the website in an effort to close it down as punishment for collecting a fee without actually deleting users' data.

As The Mighty Terror accurately observed, "No Carnival in Britain" - but, of course, there was to be one; and the Notting Hill Carnival, which survives despite the best-engineered efforts to close it down or dampen its insurgent spirit, remains one of the few homes for indigenous calypso left in Britain.

And President Obama has renewed efforts to close it.

His efforts to close it down have been repeatedly thwarted by Congress.

Labour's efforts to close it have been conducted while running up a down escalator.

Efforts to close it have failed because of legislative resistance and lackluster backing from the governor, critics say.

A crackdown in the 1960s led to a landmark case in which Val's, a New York Avenue bar, fought off state efforts to close it on the ground that it was frequented by homosexuals.

The detention centre on Manus was found to be "illegal and unconstitutional" by the Papua New Guinea supreme court in April and, while it remains operational more than four months later, the Papua New Guinea and Australian governments are escalating efforts to close it.

"The school is moving forward as planned," said Michael Mulgrew, the head of the United Federation of Teachers, adding that the union would work with any parents, teachers or students who want to protest the efforts to close it.

He noticed that the cage of a large baboon was open and in his frenzied efforts to close it before the baboon escaped, allowed that worthy to grab his hand.