Sentence examples for has virtually closed down from inspiring English sources

The new lack of trust has virtually closed down the securitization system that financed many companies and many mortgages.

Spain has virtually closed the frontier.

The global gender gap in primary-school enrolment has virtually closed.But other news is not so encouraging.

Thailand's $1 billion poultry industry, which employs about one million workers in a country of 62 million, has virtually closed.

The walkout has virtually shut down South Korea's two major commercial banks, Kookmin and the Housing and Commercial Bank.

They virtually closed down walk-in business for seven or eight months, gutted the store and created a clean, minimalist look.

Acting through the courts, they have virtually shut down the pro-reform press.

They clear thousands from their homes and virtually close down whole cities for a month.

The mayor concerns himself with transport – those weekends when the tube virtually closes down as one man with a spanner tightens the odd nut.

The largest city in the United States, the financial capital of the world, was virtually closed down.

"What they brought us to in Washington twice already is a confrontation that has virtually threatened to close down our government and our economy," Durbin continued, referring to the brinkmanship over the government spending deal in April and the fight over the debt ceiling this summer.