Sentence examples for had effectively closed from inspiring English sources
Four consecutive days of successful picketing had effectively closed the plant.
The Islamic powers had effectively closed the land routes to the East and made the sea route south from the Red Sea extremely hard to access.
The tales were exaggerated but not without foundation, for four or five bootleggers who had sizable operations there had effectively closed it off to the law.
A change in the so-called shared accommodation rate housing benefit (SAR) rules had effectively closed off the most obvious option for someone with John's history: a self-contained privately rented flat paid for by housing benefit.
Ms. Szegedi and Jules Boudrand, the study's other co-author, said political volatility and the decline in oil prices had effectively closed two of the independent watchmaking community's most fertile markets, Russia and the Middle East.
An official with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the turnout by the longshoremen -- who said they took the day off without pay -- had effectively closed the region's ports to loading and unloading as of noon.
Protest leaders with loudspeakers exhorted several thousands to continue defending a shopping and business district they have effectively closed down.
On July 29 , 2014a panel of the 5th Circuit struck down a Mississippi statute that would have effectively closed the only remaining abortion clinic in the state.
