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locking

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Present participle of lock

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Uganda is home to roughly half the world's 700 or so mountain gorillas, and this new group tour for older families should see you locking eyes with at least one.

Richard Fuller, the Tory MP for Bedford, told protesters that "no purpose is served by locking up vulnerable women indefinitely in Yarl's Wood".

One recent study revealed that cutting numbers of jailed juvenile offenders by two-thirds had coincided with a cut in youth crime rates of one-third – dramatic figures, especially when combined with less recidivism and lower spending since rehabilitation costs much less than locking people up.

Related: Fragmentation games: the return of the portmanteau film One of the portmanteau film's six storylines concerns a man who tricks various people from his life who he feels wronged by – including former employers, classmates and teachers – on to a plane, before locking himself in the cockpit and crashing it.

It would appear that our government has identified a lucrative line in selling our skills at locking people up to any country that might be more flush in fossil fuels than human rights.

The jammer was used to prevent victims from locking their cars without their knowledge.

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police told the Guardian that "GMP is not aware of any reports from the public regarding the jamming of their car's central locking frequency at Manchester Fort Shopping Park" and appealed for any victims to come forward.

Many western observers also overlooked how the Olympics were part of Putin's grand strategy to modernize Russia by locking it into international commitments that force it to produce results under global scrutiny.

The air conditioning hit me, and one of the MPs was shouting, "Do not move, Do not talk," while locking my feet to the floor.

As well as locking in decades of some of the dirtiest fossil fuel production, extraction is an exceptionally carbon intensive process.

Without a step change in the supply of council and other affordable housing, we are locking in a system of high welfare spending where lower-income households are forced to rely indefinitely on expensive private rented sector housing.

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