Sentence examples for is almost shut down from inspiring English sources

And finally, that the feeling of flow we all know, when we are so deeply immersed in something that we lose track of time and who we are, has a neurological explanation: In a state of flow, the activity in the frontal lobe is reduced, it is almost shut down — and it is in the frontal lobe the ability for abstract thinking situated, the planning for the future and the sense of self.

The two zoos were almost shut down and its baboons and other animals displaced this year because of the city's need to close its own budget gap.

Army Week was almost shut down Thursday, when some midshipmen dumped a mixture of milk and old crab remains in a dormitory room.

The kitsch extravaganza originated in 1996, when Sushi was placed inside a chicken wire and paper mache construction, and caused such a ruckus it was almost shut down by the police.

Watson, a self-confessed 6 Music fan who namechecked rock band Drenge in a resignation letter to Ed Miliband said the station, which was almost shut down four years ago, was a "huge success story" and should be introduced to a wider audience.

Scrabulous, which was developed by two brothers in India, was almost shut down earlier this year because Hasbro claims that it infringes on its trademarks.

After all, digital sharing of music (paid or not) was almost shut down before it got started.

On the federal level, the government was almost shut down in an effort to slash $528 million in funding to Planned Parenthood.

"They gave everybody the platform to work from that they had lacked up until now". On the federal level, the government was almost shut down in an effort to slash $528 million in funding to Planned Parenthood.

The images of the French capital during those dark years so horrified city officials that the show, at the Paris Historical Library, was almost shut down.

(The most famous portrait in "Sensation" — Marcus Harvey's "Myra," a re-creation of a notorious photo of the British child-murderer Myra Hindley, rendered in a child's handprints — sparked so much controversy that the show was almost shut down).