Sentence examples for membership closed from inspiring English sources

But Mr Jiang kept party membership closed to believers, while admitting some of Marx's less spiritual enemies: the capitalists.Other party leaders have also made public allowances for religion, as long as it stays within the broad tent of party control.

It will replace the collection of pools and lounges that made up the old bath complex, which, hurt by declining membership, closed in 1997 after more than 90 years.

9 September: Voting by the party membership closes at midday.

This would reassure Europeans, bring EU membership closer, strengthen the reformers and so on.

The results suggest students are more pro-European than the population as whole, where recent opinion polls show support for membership closer to 50%.

Boosted by the controversy around who would take part in televised debates, the Greens gained 2,000 new members in a single day in January, taking their membership close to 45,000, more than the Liberal Democrats or Ukip.

Membership is closed to all but the winners.

This Little Light's membership is closed at 50, but the Valley group is looking for new members for its own fund-raisers.

He said Palestinians wanted to make a "serious attempt" at full membership "without closing any doors," noting that Israel itself had waited over a year for full membership.

He called for a veto on Czech membership unless Prague closed a nuclear power plant on the Czech-Austrian border.

In the late 1920s Klan membership tumbled, klaverns closed and the Invisible Empire settled into the dustbin of history, Pegram says, while the pluralism it had railed against marched inexorably onward.