Sentence examples for elected to close from inspiring English sources

"The superintendent has elected to close the schools for the day," she said during a phone interview.

The facility remains a political thorn in the side for President Obama, who has failed to fulfil a pledge made when he was first elected to close it down quickly.

Having already received innumerous death threats via telephone, government leaders elected to close the office to protect the safety of employees and visitors alike.

The local government elected to close the fly-in fly-out sports diving operation in Bikini lagoon in 2008, and the 2009 diving season was canceled due to fuel costs, unreliable airline service to the island, and a decline in the Bikini Islanders' trust fund which subsidized the operation.

As STEC O103 H2 is known to have previously caused bloody diarrhea and, very rarely, HUS [ 13, 14], local health authorities and the daycare staff elected to close the centre for extensive cleaning on 17 October.

In 2005 IBM elected to close down the SWC subscription service and roll those customers over into Passport Advantage.

If the final regulations require installation of cooling towers or implementation of other costly plant modifications, utilities may elect to close some generating units rather than invest the funds necessary to upgrade them to meet the Section 316(b) requirements.

A few years ago, the Hastens would have had only two choices after receiving the diagnosis: they could abort or they could elect to close the lesion surgically after their daughter's birth, by which point most of the damage would have been done.

Several of the mall's stores had elected to stay closed, including Apple, Club Monaco, Kay Jewelers, Brookstone and J. C. Penney.

I elected to stay closer to home and chose San Francisco State.

Oxford won the toss and elected to commence closest to the Middlesex shore of the river.