Sentence examples for threat of closing from inspiring English sources

Now, all those places have either closed, or are under threat of closing.

Many papers have shuttered while others are under threat of closing.

Once installed, he laments, officials can grab land, charge fines, and demand bribes under threat of closing down a business.

"There will be strength in our demands if the threat of closing our wallets becomes real," says Richa Dubey, a communications consultant who is heading up the protest.

For the clinic, it may simply be a matter of facing the threat of closing in either days or weeks, if the physicians are not granted admitting privileges.

But he said he would press to make sure that drinking is "not excessive and does not put people's lives at risk". The Daily Princetonian, noting in an Oct. 17 editorial that the three clubs were considering going off tap indefinitely while the threat of closing loomed, warned that it would be potentially more dangerous for drinking to shift to unsupervised room parties.

The union is led by Brian D'Arcy, an untouchable figure in L.A. politics who has used threats of closing down that city's water and power systems if he didn't get contracts with raises of up to 6% in good times and as much as 4% even in these hard times.

Amnesty International said several political advocates in Beijing were under threat of close surveillance or house arrest.

Before the threat of borders closing, it was customary that the men would go ahead to establish themselves in a new country and the women and children would follow.

After wringing concessions from all but one of The Boston Globe's labor unions, The New York Times Company on Monday postponed its threat to start the process of closing The Globe, leaving the newspaper's immediate future resting on talks with the largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild.

The new principal found a scholarship even as the school faced the threat of being closed as part of a reorganization by the church.