Sentence examples for on a lockdown from inspiring English sources

The prisoners at the jails affected were put on a "lockdown" regime, but Gillan said minimum cover arrangements were in place to ensure prisoner safety.

New Britain spent $13,000 on a lockdown in November at Central Connecticut State University caused by a student's Halloween outfit.

About half an hour before a moment of silence was due to take place in St Anne's Square on Thursday morning, local media reported on a lockdown, as a bomb disposal squad had been called to deal with a suspicious package at a college about an hour outside of Manchester.

About quarter of an hour before a minute's silence was due to take place in St Anne's Square on Thursday morning, local media reported on a lockdown of Mancunian Way, Limby Street and Jackson Crescent, as a bomb disposal squad had been called to deal with a suspicious package at a college in Hulme.

The music was also on some version of a lockdown.

Law enforcement officials in Watertown, Mass., responded to the site of reported gunfire around 7 00 p.m. -- approximately one hour after lifting a lockdown on the area -- where they found Tsarnaev, 19, hiding inside a small boat.

The report to local police triggered a lockdown on the base, the site of a 2013 mass shooting, while the authorities investigated the reports of an active shooter.

Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate president Stephen Parry on Sunday night ordered a lockdown of the ministerial wing, with only parliamentarians allowed through the entrance.

There's a lockdown on the Wikipedia page for Austrian economics and wouldn't you know it, one or way or another, it all seems to be Paul Krugman's fault.

Bottom line, unless investors are able to rein in their irrational fears, it's the startups and entrepreneurs behind them who are going to suffer the most as long as a lockdown on funding remains the status quo.

The fear on which I have a lockdown is far more pathetic.