Sentence examples for shut down officials from inspiring English sources

For example: When Joaquín Almunia, the Spanish-born European Union commissioner for competition, said recently that at least one Spanish bank might need to be shut down, officials in Madrid rejected his suggestion.

Shops, markets and non-Ebola related travel services will be shut down, officials said.

The shortages had myriad causes: the Union blockade shut off the import of many finished materials from Europe; naturally, the war itself shut down official trade with the North, which had supplied the South's agrarian economy with much of its manufactured goods; and Southern industry was neither large nor well developed enough to meet demand.

By late morning the port of Oakland was officially shut down: port officials cited "health and safety risks" and sent workers home, leaving container ships loaded at the docks.

About a dozen of its offices were shut down, the officials said.

The fire in the Four Corners area burned a transmission line, which caused two power plants to shut down, utility officials said.

But it recognized the affront to civil liberties and the constitutional separation of powers in the Justice Department's argument that the executive branch is entitled to have lawsuits shut down whenever an official makes a blanket claim of national security.

In the end, the prison was shut down and the three officials tried.

Officials shut down the western spur of the turnpike from Exit 15W to Exit 18W and diverted traffic onto the eastern spur for about four hours.

MANILA — Officials shut down a controversial art exhibition on Tuesday after a storm of public protest that included criticism from President Benigno S. Aquino III, who called the artwork offensive to the country's Christian majority.

The attacks came five days after North Korea blamed the South and the United States for cyberattacks that temporarily shut down some of its official Web sites, and warned of "consequences".