Sentence examples for it was sealed off from inspiring English sources

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistanan briefly reopened the Khyber Pass on Friday, three days after it was sealed off as part of a military offensive against Taliban guerrillas.

Another option seemed to be the creation of a single room for smoking, legal so long as it was sealed off from the rest of the club, vented outdoors and off-limits to employees.

(One can re-read Susan Sontag's short story about AIDS, "The Way We Live Now," published in The New Yorker in 1986) That the killing was concentrated does not mean that it was sealed off, no matter how one looked at it — as sharers of a city and world of boundless connections, or as bearers of human kindness.

By coincidence, in the rush to reach Upton Park before finally it was sealed off, with a post-war record crowd of 38,424 inside three quarters of an hour before the kick-off, I took along an old notebook in which I had recorded Manchester United's memorable defeat of Benfica, 5-1, in the Stadium of Light.

It was sealed off from humanity for 30,000 years before sewer workers accidentally shattered its vaulted ceiling, allowing Israeli searchers to rappel into its dark interior.

A local security officer said he entered the compound shortly after the Americans left, before it was sealed off by the army.

[On Monday, the Israeli military, citing security considerations, said it was sealing off the Gaza Strip until further notice, meaning that neither Palestinians nor foreign nationals would be allowed to enter or leave, The Associated Press reported.] Among the other issues discussed today was the future of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.

The Guardian was given a tour of the building before it is sealed off to outsiders this month.

Once the truck is inside, it is sealed off from both the museum and the street by a set of steel doors.

Ryan FitzGibbon, a spokeswoman for the Buildings Department, said that as long as a site was structurally sound and was sealed off from the public, the department did not require that it be sealed off from the elements.

Separated in universities from the study of literature, it is sealed off even from those studying the writing of the past.