Sentence examples for rapid closing from inspiring English sources

If it stands, the order will transform a system that took shape in the 1960s, when the government embraced adult homes as a way to care for people with mental illness after the rapid closing of large state-run hospitals.

Mr. Bloomberg also said that he planned to pursue changes to state law that would allow the rapid closing of large detention centers that are mostly empty but fully staffed.

Still, the rapid closing comes as a surprise, since playing on the same street as "The Anarchist" is a revival of Mr. Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Glengarry Glen Ross" at the Schoenfeld Theater — with the same lead producers — which has been the biggest box office success of the fall season, even before its official opening this weekend.

Rapid closing of stomata in response to reduced atmospheric humidity and soil moisture has been recognized as the principal mechanism of drought tolerance in cassava (El-Sharkawy 2004; Setter and Fregene 2007).

Acomys species also showed rapid closing of 4-mm punch wounds in ear tissue, which involved regeneration of skin, hair follicles, sebaceous glands, adipose cells and cartilage (but not muscle).

Both Mil­ler's memoir, "Timebends," and Martin Gott­fried's 2003 biography draw to a rapid close.

And it may be that President Nixon had truly expected to bring the war to a rapid close.

His decision to set a firm deadline helped avoid new delays and brought the payout process to a rapid close.

The days of leading the newspaper industry by the hand, down the path of mythic riches, are coming to a rapid close".

The rapid close of the case seemed certain to come as a relief to Democrats here, who are locked in competitive races this fall for governor and a Senate seat.

Like more than two dozen other voters interviewed as they emerged from the polls in four of the biggest Super Tuesday states -- California, Georgia, Minnesota and Ohio -- Father Lewis felt that the primary season was drawing to a rapid close and that it was time for Democrats to turn their attention to the campaign against President Bush.