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But bilateral deals, such as Italy's with Libya and Spain's with Senegal and Mauritania, have largely closed down the western and central Mediterranean routes into the EU.

Passage was delayed last week as several Democratic senators — including John Kerry of Massachusetts, Mark Warner of Virginia and Maria Cantwell of Washington — worked to water down a provision in the bill that would have largely closed an unfair loophole that benefits rich fund managers in investment partnerships.

In Jordan's case, Republicans have largely closed ranks and refused to admit maybe Jordan messed up as a young man.

A crackdown by Spanish authorities has largely closed a route from the West African coast to the Canary Islands which drew tens of thousands of migrants in the mid-2000s.

For nearly two decades, the city that set the 60's to music with the Motown sound has largely closed its ears to its other musical offspring, the techno sound.

After last year's media blitz covering the squalid conditions at Lesbos and Idomeni, the Greek government had largely closed the camps to press, so I didn't bother to apply for a pass.

The sheriff's department nearly collapsed for lack of funds: The jail had largely closed down, reported thefts in Grants Pass increased 80percentt in just a year, and felony suspects arrested with stolen goods were sometimes issued tickets and released.

That's the new job of the CIO, but the deep management experience to be gained by interactions at the uppermost levels of the company have largely been closed off to all but a select few within companies in the past.

Unlike previous control order applications made by the AFP, it was not publicised and has been quietly progressing in a series of federal court hearings that have been largely closed to the public.

In that same 22-year period, women have risen in the workplace, becoming entrepreneurs, leaders of companies, editors of national newspapers, yet the doors to British theatre buildings seem to have remained largely closed.

But those gaps have been largely closed.