Sentence examples for gradually shut from inspiring English sources

In New Jersey the NJ TRANSIT system started to gradually shut down on Sunday afternoon.

The school would be gradually shut down, they told the principal, Patricia West.

The 1919 passage of the 18th Amendment culminated a 70-year movement that had gradually shut down liquor sales nationwide.

The country's nuclear facilities were gradually shut down after an earthquake and tsunami caused a series of meltdowns in the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant.

As network administrators have gradually shut down the open relay networks, spam senders have used viruses to plant similar capabilities on home and business computers.

This volcanism was gradually shut off in California as the movement of plate boundaries changed from one of subduction to a sliding and transform motion (see plate tectonics: Principles of plate tectonics).

As it gradually shuts off the West Bank behind a barrier, Israel seems to have learned how to thwart most Palestinian attacks and to live in relative calm.

The government has been led by Baburam Bhattarai of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) since August 2011, but without a Parliament various civil functions have been gradually shutting down.

Mr. Maehara and Mr. Kaieda agree on many policy issues, including gradually shutting all of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors and eliminating nuclear power, a position supported by many lawmakers and a large number of voters, according to recent polls.

In a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Velders and colleagues calculate that since 1987, gradually shutting down CFC emissions has removed the equivalent of about 11 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (or about 0.55 billion tons per year that the Montreal Protocol has been active).

His 55-year-old body was gradually shutting down.