Sentence examples for had effectively closed off from inspiring English sources

The organisation, based in Glasgow, said two weeks ago it would be forced to cease trading because its inability to win "regular funding" from Creative Scotland had effectively closed off a third of its income.

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.

The suit argues that by drawing up a plan in advance, the administration has effectively closed off debate on the space issue before the public can weigh in.

For many black men and women, criminal histories have effectively closed off the already shrinking avenue of government employment, which helped build the black middle class.

The new laws have "effectively closed off the future pipeline of wind projects in this state". I approached the office of the responsible minister, Matthew Guy, for comment for this article.

That's because over the years the university has effectively closed off the open space between the buildings with fences and gates, obscured it behind a cheap retail strip mall on La Guardia Place and allowed what should be accessible parkland to languish while arguing that building the towers with fresh landscaping around them would create an improvement.

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.

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.

Four consecutive days of successful picketing had effectively closed the plant.

By agreeing a move to the rugby badlands of Catalonia, where the locals are even more boisterous than those who congregate in the Kingsholm Shed, Narraway, who has seven caps, has effectively closed himself off from Test rugby.

Some credit markets have effectively closed up shop.