Sentence examples for it closes off from inspiring English sources

The stereotype is absurd, but it closes off fresh thinking.

There is an obvious downside to this system: It closes off opportunities early.

It closes off the possiblity of using variable time steps and is not very efficient for such a massive calculation.

An absence of receptors should therefore be a good thing, because it closes off a shortcut to infection.

We are sensitive to all the possibilities of a book we haven't read, and the brutally unnecessary process of reading it closes off some of them.

But this label prejudices the case in favor of Aquinas's perspective: it assumes that Marston has been seduced by an Islamic misreading of Aristotle, and it closes off the possibility that Augustine and Aristotle might have more in common than is typically allowed.

US Customs and Border Protection said on Monday it closed off northbound traffic for several hours at the San Ysidro crossing.

It also dismayed some rebuilding officials, who said it closed off to them options for inventive designs for the use of the site.

New Labour's appeal to business and the City was that it closed off, perhaps forever, the possibility of a genuinely socialist alternative.

In a separate move, the Treasury is being forced to defend the way it closed off parts of the climate change levy (CCL) in court.

Nearer the end of the day, at a slightly loose end, I tried the second walk and was disappointed to find most of it closed off.