Sentence examples for states closed from inspiring English sources

Schools in the District and adjoining states closed.

If all states closed their primaries to non-party members, that automatically would exclude 43% of all voters.

The television networks followed suit about an hour and 15 minutes later after most polls in Western states closed.

Rather than accepting refugees, many western states closed their doors and looked to neighboring countries — Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan — already hosting significant refugee populations to stem the outflows.

In 2o10, the overall U.S. prison population declined for the first time in four decades to 1.6 million and at least 13 states closed prisons.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons and a handful of U.S. states closed their boot-camp programs, and others were scaled back.

In ancient Greece, the inhabitants of individual river basins organized themselves into independent city-states, closed cells where population pressure was strongly felt.

This spring, the Southern African Development Community - a grouping of 15 states - closed down its regional court, following protests by Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe that its judges were impeding his government's land reform program by ordering compensation for former landowners.

Based on the mathematic model, a power control principle is designed, which uses full-states closed-loop feedback algorithm.

Mr. Hanks is based outside the country because the United States closed its embassy here during the civil war in 1998.

The United States closed its embassy there this week.