Sentence examples for was basically closed from inspiring English sources

"The German labour market was basically closed for Polish workers and that kind of changed everything," Dustmann says.

One-third the size of Belgium and containing only about 885,000 people, Qatar was basically closed until the current emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, seized power from his father in 1995.

Under Pol Pot, the city was basically closed, as was Le Royal; the people scattered, deserting the city.

"They were basically closed for business".

"The capital markets are basically closed to the merchant type of business," said Arleen Spangler, a director in the utilities, energy and project finance group at Standard and Poor's.

The loops are basically closed when the magnetic fields rise up to ca. 300 mT (Fig. 4), suggesting that the hysteresis behaviors are dominantly controlled by soft magnetic minerals.

"The market is basically closed between now, and the start of a new year is always slow because companies don't start roadshows [until the markets re-open]," says Kathleen Smith, a principal of Renaissance Capital and the manager of its IPO exchange-traded fund.

Cuomo added that New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport were "basically closed".

Europe stands for human rights, and now it's basically closing its eyes to human rights".

For all of last night's fireworks, the window of opportunity for any of Mitt Romney's rivals to knock him out of the top spot is basically closing fast.

"All of the exams have been basically close to normal.