Sentence examples for worked to shut from inspiring English sources
"An alternative plan wasn't a big issue," said Richard M. Kessel, who worked to shut the plant and is chairman of the Long Island Power Authority.
But Mr. Olson has differentiated those efforts from the Arkansas Project, which he said he learned of only in 1997 and then worked to shut down.
Anyone who finds that overheated should remember how hard Iran's government worked to shut down the Web during last summer's bloody, pro-democracy protests — and the power of the images and words that managed to get through.
All day Saturday they worked to shut two of the vents, and they spent the afternoon measuring the results, mindful that if they closed the vents too quickly, water could rush in and form the kind of icy hydrates that doomed a previous containment effort.
The report opens with the assertion that: Throughout 2013, governments across the former Soviet space worked to shut off the remaining oxygen supply to their democratic institutions As in every year for the past 10 years the average democracy score for the region declined in 2013, with 16 countries suffering downgrades, five improving, and eight not registering an overall score change.
Since taking office in 2011, Schuette has worked to shut down marijuana clinics, and to prosecute patients enrolled in the state marijuana registry.
Most of its efforts are directed against international narcotics smuggling organizations, but it also works to shut down interstate operations.
It stepped it up again after the Paris attacks, using tactics like hacking suspected members of the group and working to shut down social media accounts and websites.
In depressed people, Nutt explains, one of those regions, the anterior cingulate cortex, is overactive, and psilocybin may work to shut it down.
"I will keep working to shut down the prison at Guantánamo," he pledged again in last month's State of the Union address.
The phrase "Keep working to shut down" falls short of an iron-clad commitment of the sort that Obama repeatedly made on the campaign trail when he first ran for President.
