Sentence examples for gradually shuts from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

A8 Germany to End Nuclear Power Chancellor Gerhard Schroder said the government and energy companies had agreed on a plan to gradually shut down Germany's 19 nuclear power plants.

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.

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.

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).

Mr. Mamère, inspired by Germany's Greens, who have pressed Berlin to phase out the country's 19 nuclear reactors, proposed that France too gradually shut down its atomic power plants over the next 25 years.