Sentence examples for set about closing from inspiring English sources

The Revenue Department found dozens of similar practices, and the Romney administration set about closing the loopholes one by one.

On his arrival he set about closing corporate gyms, ejecting executive coaches, ripping out 50,000 unused (but paid-for) phone lines and selling excess office space inherited through mergers.

Seven out of ten Americans routinely tell pollsters that they want their president to have a strong personal faith.The Democrats sensibly (if cynically) set about closing the God gap.

When the Tompkins' Conservación Patagonica organisation bought the land in 2004, they set about closing the ranches, moving cattle and sheep out of the valley, and removing all the fencing to return the land to its previous natural state.

In the 1980s, Dr. Axelrod decreed that in an age of improved technology and shorter stays, New York had too many hospitals and hospital beds, and he set about closing some.

Or, less apocalyptically, suppose that Venezuela bought Alcoa and set about closing its aluminium smelters in the United States in order to move production to Latin America, as part of a strategy for development.Others are worried for precisely the opposite reason: that the funds are interested chiefly in making money.

But it'll be no comfort whatsoever for staff at the LA base of Kojima Productions it's strongly rumored that tens of employees lost their jobs there today (November 3) as Konami sets about closing the facility down completely.

Even as, rhetorically, they stretched the chasm between the two parties, some of the speakers at Brighton also set about quietly closing it.On the most superficial, sloganeering level, all the parties are now promising "change".

And now, it has set about trying to close the government to choke the Obama healthcare law.

Then, as network operators started to go under, demand for telecoms equipment dried up and Marconi's business collapsed.At both firms, new management teams set about cutting costs, shedding jobs, closing down loss-making divisions and reducing debt.

"The last village pub had closed, so we set about raising money through shares on a local, national and international scale," said Graham.