Sentence examples for shut off access from inspiring English sources

Then it felt pressure from investors to make money and started to shut off access.

To arbitrarily shut off access to a taxpayer funded, historical building, such as the White House, is disappointing.

Consequently, Mr. Howard's solution is to shut off access to phones when they are in a car.

At one point, law enforcement officials engaged in a manhunt that briefly shut off access to Staten Island.

Egypt and Libya had earlier shut off access to the Internet in an attempt to crush popular uprisings led by young people and aided by social media networks.

When ethnic unrest gripped the remote north-western region of Xinjiang in 2009, the government shut off access to the entire internet across Xinjiang.

The thrust of the bill is aimed at shutting off access to pirated content on overseas sites.

The company has a history of alienating its developer community, shutting off access to its API and feature set over the years, and killing a number of businesses along the way.

Shutting off access to websites like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, as Tunisia recently did, and as countries like Iran and China consistently do, is a terrible restriction on a country's citizens and an insult to the idea of the web.

"The vice of Proposal 2," the brief said, "is that it selectively shuts off access to the ordinary political processes for advocates of otherwise permissible race-conscious policies".

Many analysts agreed that the Emirati government appeared more interested in getting some concessions from Research In Motion than in actually shutting off access to BlackBerry data services.