Sentence examples for kept closed to from inspiring English sources

Someone had apparently climbed a fence to open the gate, one of six that the government has kept closed to protect endangered suckerfish and coho salmon during a continuing drought.

To a visitor, this is evident in sleek but empty airports and bullet trains, highways to nowhere, thousands of colossal new central and provincial government buildings, ghost towns and brand new aluminium smelters kept closed to prevent global prices from plunging.The problem may not kick in until 2013, Mr Roubini thinks, saying the country will then suffer a hard landing.

Only intended to be used for takeoff and maximum speed near the target, the jet was fed by an air inlet on top of the fuselage that was normally kept closed to reduce drag.

But their contingency plans are being kept close to hand.

For centuries, Europeans in Africa kept close to their military and trading posts on the coast.

The Amal guys who were our guards kept close to us.

He kept close to country music during the next decade when Nashville began embracing more generalised pop.

The first two numbers, however, kept closer to set forms and were more successful.

Officials said he loved basketball and kept close to his extended family.

"I arrived with my Bible, my shield, the one thing I kept close to my chest.

The inauguration, though it kept closer to the script, was not without similar touches.