Sentence examples for has begun closing from inspiring English sources

But Obama has begun closing the gap in recent days, winning over Arizona governor Janet Napolitano today and three senior members of Congress yesterday.

Its A&E unit, implicated in many of the hundreds of needless deaths in 2005-08, has begun closing, every night, between 10pm and 8am.

Following in the footsteps of its former competitors, Barnes & Noble, America's "last bookstore chain standing," has begun closing select branches, including a location on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village.

Since taking the reins from Stephen Gordon, Restoration's founder and still its chairman, Mr. Friedman has begun closing unprofitable stores, including one of the company's two stores in New York City.

No surprise here, you can find him lurking in the back of the Beatport Stage after Green Velvet's set, just when Claude VonStroke has begun closing it out for the night.

Of the young marginal basins, only the Sea of Japan may have begun closing again.

But three months into the school year, she had begun closing the door to her office and crying.

Food, too, is becoming a problem: local bakeries, unable to meet the rising demand, have begun closing early, after selling the last of their baguettes.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, opening a new phase of direct American diplomacy in the Middle East, met today with President Bashar al-Assad and said afterward that Syria had begun closing the offices of at least some militant anti-Israel groups in Damascus as demanded by the United States.

Sweden has begun closer co-operation on airspace surveillance and intelligence with Norway, which is in NATO.

The United States military has not begun closing down operations at Manas, said a military spokesman at the base.