Sentence examples for state of lockdown from inspiring English sources

As darkness fell, Ramallah was still in a state of lockdown.

From a state of lockdown it moved to a charm offensive, inviting a small media contingent inside its redoubt, with warm smiles and waves.

The town is now in a state of lockdown, with checkpoints on roads leading into it and paramilitary troops in riot gear standing or sitting on each block during the day.

The city of Taiz, south of the capital, remained in a state of lockdown, days after government forces and plainclothes gunmen opened fire on a vast crowd of peaceful protesters who had been holding a sit-in for months.

The town, which has for decades been a hotspot of Shia opposition, has since been in a virtual state of lockdown, and now seems to have started an uprising – the "intifada of dignity", as activists have called it.

#BREAKING CNN Turk reporter says 2 helicopters in the air to rescue pilots but there are clashes on the ground pic.twitter.com/LcDmT86Qa8 Nato's headquarters in Brussels, already in a tense state of lockdown following the terror threat there, said it would be issuing a statement later on Tuesday.

11.12am BST The whole greater urban area of Boston is being put into a state of virtual lockdown as police continue a massive hunt for one of the suspects of the Boston marathon bombing who they have described as armed and extremely dangerous, writes Ed Pilkington from Watertown.

Watertown and surrounding areas are in a state of virtual lockdown as heavily armed authorities search for Mr. Tsarnaev, who was allegedly involved in a carjacking and wild shoot out.. The Ideologically Motivated (Religious, Political or Hybrid).

And from "New York State (2)": We stand in the Tundra of Lockdown Waiting for our lives Never to begin.

The findings of the association, an inmate-advocacy group, are based on state records, the authors' visits to 29 state prison lockdown units and interviews with hundreds of prisoners, correction officers and prison supervisors.

According to Mary Gottschalk in her excellent book "Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics," challenges include "everything from the absence of any quiet space for studying, to deep tensions between prison educators and prison guards over the utility of educational programming for inmates".