Sentence examples for has become locked from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Romney dropped out early in the primary season, avoiding the kind of nasty, drawn-out brawl that has become locked in this time around.

For the umpteenth time in six years, it has become locked in a dispute over its power project at Dabhol, in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

"The question is, will he become that?" Mr. Romney himself seemed sensitive to the perception that his campaign has become locked in a bitter — and counterproductive — war of words with his leading Republican rival.

But she also has something new to say to a party that has become locked into the belief that the French welfare-state model must be ferociously defended at every turn from the effects of Anglo-Saxon globalisation.

Moreover, the day's televised theater, with hour after hour of emotional scenes of the Southerners who flew north meeting their relatives long before the North's visitors arrived here, reinforced the view among many South Koreans that their country has become locked into a highly imbalanced relationship with the North.

But Islam has become locked down to an extraordinary degree.

Instead, the dominant means of punishment has become locking the convicted away for years on end, making the nation a world leader in incarceration rates.

Some very great artists have become locked into one compulsive vision and made great work.

She testified that the couple had become locked in a spiral of wrongdoing.

The blue points of light come from the shock waves of exploded stars or stars that have become locked together in a gravitational fight to the death.

A report from the Swedish environmental advisory council (SEAC), delivered to the government on February 22, expressed the fears of scientists that the marine ecology of the Baltic Sea had become locked into permanent eutrophication.