Sentence examples for on lockdown to from inspiring English sources
At Google, a company that prides itself on openness, some buildings were on "lockdown" to ensure that upcoming products don't leak.
For about thirty minutes late on Friday, during a slightly shamefaced press conference announcing that the authorities had shut down all of Boston to catch a teenage fugitive and then failed to catch him, it looked like there might be a modest media backlash against the decision to put an entire American metropolis on lockdown to hunt a single bomber.
Now, after middling usage, $100 million in payments to broadcasters, a massive physical advertising campaign and problems with live-streamed violence, some are questioning Mark Zuckerberg's decision to put the company on lockdown to rapidly launch the feature.
The White House was also put on lockdown temporarily due to a separate incident.
TMZ is on 24/7 lockdown to get the pertinent data out, from her nail polish with the "F U" written on it, to every sobbing minute of this life deconstructing in the courthouse.
Nearby schools, according to local media, were temporarily placed on lockdown due to the phantom threat.
And homophobia isn't just about holding your partner's hand on a street, but it's about not being able to walk down the street due to violence in cities like Houston, Texas, which recently had a neighborhood go on "lockdown" due to so many hate crimes, a trend that is becoming more prevalent in the past few years.
Michael would call at least once a week, sometimes more, except when the prison was on lockdown owing to outbreaks of violence.
The BBC's central London headquarters has been put on lockdown due to a protest by climate change campaigners who are demanding it uses its status as national broadcaster to declare a "climate and ecological emergency".
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