The border between Gisenyi and Goma does not have the stablest of histories and there was little precedent when, last Sunday, it was kept open far beyond its standard 6pm closing time on account of a football match.
In the end, its lease with the city specified that on four days a week it "be kept open and accessible to the public free of charge".
To balance his "humors," the surgeon made a hole, or "fontanelle," in a vein in his leg, and it was kept open.
In 1932 there was talk of closing the canal, but it was kept open because several of the dams were being used to generate hydroelectric power and because recreational use of the canal was growing.
In a 1947 report, Mumford called Stanford land "the last large open area in what has become practically a single great suburban development". He argued that the land would be most valuable if it was kept open or used for academic purposes and strongly opposed subdividing acres on the border for housing subdivisions.
While the structure would be designed for use by law reviews, if it were kept open and without restrictions, it could potentially be adopted by peer-reviewed journals and mapped to other indexing systems, either through Web-scale discovery or other systems.
I remembered the ark that held the Torah in our synagogue when I was a kid, how it was kept open during the prayer, and how serious it felt when the rabbi warned us that it was time for our final prayers, before the ark closed and sealed our fates for the following year.
As for the noise, Mr. McGowan said that the airport tried to limit takeoffs and landings to the hours between 6 a.m. and midnight but that federal regulations require that it be kept open all night in case of late-arriving flights or emergency landings.
"They have long claimed the Manus [regional processing center] was a 'hellhole '— but the moment it was to close they demanded it be kept open".
It was kept open longer than the planned 8 weeks after analyses of demographic data showed low levels of participation by some target groups.
It was kept open until 2 weeks after the notification of the oral presentations so that authors whose manuscript could not be accepted had the opportunity to resubmit their work as a poster.
