Sentence examples for the lockdown of from inspiring English sources
His arrest followed a mass manhunt and the lockdown of most of the Boston area, during which his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan died.
Critics of the government said the lockdown of the city's political center was an attempt by the governing Indian National Congress party to avoid protesters' fury.
The substance in a suspicious package that caused the lockdown of the Indonesian embassy in Canberra on Monday morning has been declared safe after expert testing.
But the lockdown of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi and party leaders has, for the time being, halted all movement toward peaceful political change, opposition members admit.
The shooting set off a manhunt that backed up traffic for miles and prompted the lockdown of every public school in Broward County for several hours.
Second, we must refute the dogma of "the European fortress", which favours the spread of anti-immigrant speeches and the lockdown of Europe's frontiers, especially when a core element of European postwar identity – its social welfare system – requires the economic input of immigration to remain sustainable.
But that's the thing about entirely unexpected events – they have entirely unexpected consequences, not just the total lockdown of the nation's airports or the apocalyptic images flashing across our news bulletins in what looked suspiciously like a metaphor.
Sandwiched between three mind-numbing years of basic science courses and hospital rotations and the lockdown years of residency training, the fourth year of medical school has long been a welcome respite for future doctors.
It was well past the midday "lockdown" of the hotel.
There was the briefest hope that the volcanic lockdown of airports might convince the massively profitable supermarket chains to cut down on their imports of fresh vegetables and fruit from the developing world in order to encourage customers to eat, when possible, produce which is local and in season.
Despite the lockdown, hundreds of Morsi supporters tried to gather at El Iman mosque in the neighbourhood of Nasr City in an attempt to start a new sit-in.
