Sentence examples for had been locked down from inspiring English sources

The resources being put into the search were considerable, according to residents and a spokesman for the Logar governor's office, Din Muhammad Darwish, who said that the province "had been locked down since yesterday".

The capital had been locked down at the highest alert level, for "serious and imminent" threats, since Saturday morning, with schools, universities and the metro closed until Wednesday morning.

That incident marked the first time the entire campus had been locked down since the 2007 shooting, and the second major test of Virginia Tech's improved emergency alert system.

If you were under the impression that a new data transfer agreement had been locked down between Europe and the US — to restore legal confidence in commercial data flows across the Atlantic — think again.

Outbound international calls throughout Xinjiang were blocked, and Internet connections in the region had been locked down or non-local websites blocked.

The city's Education Department released a statement confirming that a gun had been found and that the school had been locked down.

In addition, SourceDNA noted that while Apple had been locking down private APIs in order to prevent apps from reading the platform serial number in iOS 8, Youmi worked around this by enumerating peripheral devices, like the battery system.

"The city has been locked down".

The local hospital has been locked down twice while doctors treated Mexican police officers who had been wounded.

The unit "should have been locked down for several months to train and to do static operations," he said.

Despite this bucket of cold water, entry and exit proved straightforward for us, though it continues to be almost impossible for the 1.6m Gazans who have been locked down for four years.