Sentence examples for were effectively closed from inspiring English sources

An agency spokesman said most of the buildings were effectively closed by mid-afternoon.

The currency was devalued, all price and wage controls were abolished, government spending was cut, and the state-owned tin mines were effectively closed.

Terminals were effectively closed at Longview, Oakland and Portland, but plans to shut down the entire west coast failed after other protests saw relatively small turnouts.

"Prior to the meeting with the White House the capital markets were effectively closed to BP, we were not able to borrow in the capital markets, either short or medium term debt at all, " he said.

My own gravitation towards words was peculiarly encumbered by his prejudices: all kinds of professions I might have pursued were effectively closed off to me by his violent aversion to them and by my filially uncritical absorption of this attitude.

Now the prince's architectural allies feel they have found in Finch a lightning rod for their own simmering sense of injustice that a parallel "modernist establishment" is seeking to marginalise them with the result that some traditional architects believe commissions for Olympic projects were effectively closed to them.

Was there a huge sense of responsibility with Gears 3? You were effectively closing this epic, hugely successful trilogy… In terms of being given a triple A game as my first outing into games writing, I felt a massive sense of responsibility.

Schools have been effectively closed for the past three months.

Private markets are effectively closed, and Italy and Spain are scarcely able to afford bailouts.

Japan was effectively closed up until the 1970's or 1980's".

By then, Primary Global's Manila outpost was effectively closed, according to a former employee.