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That night, the carpetmaker closed his shop, piled his most precious wares upon a single camel, and left Baghdad.
The door opened and closed so quietly that I didn't notice he had come in the room.
We need to reeducate the workers who lost their jobs when the factory closed.
The store has lost a significant amount of business since the factory closed.
The Bering Land Bridge had closed, thus Beringia ceased to exist.
The law of conservation of mass states that mass is neither created nor destroyed. In a closed system, mass of reactants is equal to mass of products.
These halls were closed in 2015 following the completion of the new St Mary's Village.
Before the nineteenth century closed, industrial capitalism and agriculturalism came to a showdown.
By the end of the year French armies had won victories on all fronts, and as the year closed they began advancing into the Netherlands.
Theological universities were closed and more pastors and theologians were arrested.
The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling.
The Foulness and Cardiff facilities closed in October 1996 and February 1997 respectively.
On 31 July 2011, it was announced that her office in the House of Lords had been closed.
In retaliation for the strike, Pakistan closed the Torkham ground border crossing to NATO supply convoys for an unspecified period.
The UK halved their force and were slowing withdrawal with all but two bases being closed down.
Although the railway to New Holland closed in 1977, passenger and car traffic continued to use the pier until the end of ferry operations.
On Tuesday 11 June 2013, it was decided by the Justice Committee that Stonehaven Sheriff Court would be closed.
Newport Cattle Market, in the Pillgwenlly area of the city, closed in 2009 and was demolished to make way for a new supermarket.
The slate workings in Cwm Llan were opened in 1840, but closed in 1882 due to the expense of transporting the slate to the sea at Porthmadog.
In the 1950s, after the end of World War II, the Royal Naval dockyard and the military garrison were closed.
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In 1966, the British government purchased the privately owned copra plantations and closed them.
In response, Spain completely closed the border with Gibraltar and severed all communication links.
It contains many tunnelled roads, most of which are still operated by the military and closed to the general public.
The second vote may be used to vote for a regional closed party list of candidates.
There are no one-sided closed polygons on a plane. On the cube, however, monogons are a diverse and interesting class of figures.
On 26 June 1990 Serbian authorities closed the Kosovo Assembly, citing special circumstances.
In April 2006 Peugeot closed its Ryton plant and moved 206 production to Slovakia.
While lighting is normally installed for use by the loading crew, typically the compartment is unlit when the door is closed.
Agustin has responded saying he closed the company in 1994 and it paid all of its taxes.
Gauss's law for magnetism describes magnetic fields as closed field lines not due to magnetic monopoles.
In 1829 he built a closed cycle steam engine followed by a vertical tubular boiler.
While it is also available as a diversionary route, Knockmore, Ballinderry, Glenavy and Crumlin stations have closed.
A small number of stations and lines closed under the Beeching programme have been reopened, with further reopenings proposed.
Other preserved lines, or heritage railways, have reopened some lines previously closed by British Rail.
His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson.
Carson, a leading barrister, diverged from the normal practice of asking closed questions.
The play attracted capacity audiences until July, when Tree insisted on going on holiday, and the production closed.
On 26 June 2016, Coldplay closed the final day of the Glastonbury Festival in England.
The circular balcony of the rotunda's domed atrium, closed to visitors since the 1920s, was reopened.
These opened on 18 July 2012 and closed on 28 October 2012 as work on the tower building continued directly above.
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A musical adaptation of the book was launched in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2006, but it closed after mostly poor reviews.
The BBC HD channel closed in March 2013 and was replaced by BBC2 HD in the same month.
This arm of the company closed in 2006, following later rationalisation of ITV's production operations.
In order to make cost savings, several large regional headquarters, studio sites and programme departments closed and merged.
In 1986, the Metromedia deal closed, and the Fox Broadcasting Company was launched.
In July 2011, News Corp closed down the News of the World newspaper in the United Kingdom due to allegations of phone hackings.
It was published five days a week from September 2006 to September 2009, when it closed faced with competition from other free papers.
In 2007, it closed shop and reappeared in tabloid form, and has been appreciated for its brand of investigative journalism.
On 26 February 2012, The Sun on Sunday was launched to replace the closed News of the World, employing some of its former journalists.
The batting captain can declare an innings closed at any time when the ball is dead.
Following World War I, European countries organised Grand Prix races over closed courses.
Sports car racing is a set of classes of vehicles, over a closed course track, including sports cars, and specialised racing types.
Touring car racing is a set of vehicles, modified street cars, that race over closed purpose built race tracks and street courses.
From 1928 practice sessions for the Isle of Man TT Races and Manx Grand Prix were held on closed roads.
A hand pass is not a punch but rather a strike of the ball with the side of the closed fist, using the knuckle of the thumb.
Businesses are closed three or four times a day for 30 to 45 minutes during business hours while employees and customers are sent off to pray.
Smaller solution lakes that consist of a body of standing water in a closed depression within a karst region are known as karst ponds.
With the advent of the Protestant Reformation, numbers of Southern German towns closed their brothels in an attempt to eradicate prostitution.
Though the straits were never completely closed, there may have been islands in between which could be reached using simple rafts.
Until the Soviet authorities closed the border in 1936, Kazakh nomads would occasionally use these passes.
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During the Permian and Triassic periods, with the Iapetus Ocean entirely closed, Scotland lay near the centre of the Pangaean supercontinent.
The English fugitives met the gates of Dumfries Castle that remained firmly closed in their presence.
Degas' most clear appropriation is of the woman leaning on a closed umbrella which is borrowed directly from Hokusai's Random Sketches.
The Conrad in Miami has closed its Noir Bar, which had a South Beach, nightclublike atmosphere, and is replacing it with a brighter, lighter bar.
Digital sold their Alpha facility to Motorola who eventually closed it down.
Motorola also closed their factory in Bathgate and the substantial NEC plant in Livingston was also closed.
In the process, the Iapetus Ocean between Gondwana, Baltica and Laurentia closed.
The basin closed when these Caledonian deformed terranes were accreted again to Laurussia during the Hercynian orogeny.
They do not have external nostrils and their secondary nostrils can be closed when they are in water.
The male will then shake their heads in a similar way to when they are guarding their nest but with their wings closed.
The stomata are in lines or patches on the leaves, and can be closed when it is very dry or cold.
After a flood in 1916, it was decided that the Zuiderzee, an inland sea within the Netherlands, would be closed and reclaimed.
Even the existence of these towns was a military secret, and the towns themselves were closed to the public until after the war.
In 2004 both ADC and Canon had closed their Glenrothes operations with the promised jobs growth never materialising to any substantial level.
These stations replaced the former Livingston and Newpark stations which had closed before the construction of the town.
It closed completely in 2004 after the remaining services were transferred to St John's Hospital.
Irvine Harbour is now officially closed as a commercial port and houses a small number of privately owned pleasure craft.
It is situated on the site of the former Irvine to Kilmarnock railway link which has long since been closed.
Nominations for the SNP leadership closed on 15 October, with Sturgeon confirmed as the only candidate.
Prior to the establishment of Parliament, the monarch ruled absolutely by the issuing of his personal written orders, open or closed.
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The view down Bank Street is closed by the baroque headquarters of the Bank of Scotland.
It contrasts with a closed economy in which international trade and finance cannot take place.
In 1992, the Holy Loch base was deemed unnecessary following the demise of the Soviet Union and subsequently closed.
The SSBN facility at Rota was closed in 1979 as King's Bay began refitting submarines.
A second, smaller union opened at nearby Littlejohn Street a couple of years later but by 2010 it too had closed.
There are also straps above and below the bellows to keep it securely closed when the instrument is not playing.
Nutini became known for singing with his eyes closed during his entire performances.
The Gulf of Morbihan is a vast natural harbour with some forty islands that is almost a closed sea.
When the flour mill closed down in 1874, the brickworks moved into the building.
The Edinburgh studios later became a permanent production centre for Take the High Road before being closed in the early 1990s to save costs.
The studios closed in 2000 following the axing of the Gaelic news service, Telefios.
One other unusual thing about the Old Course is that it is closed on Sundays to let the course rest.
When the airport installed the new instrument landing system the single track road had to be closed altogether.
The fire broke out in the main closed deck, and was briefly under control with the ships sprinkler systems before flaring up again.
The Northgate Inn closed in 2013, leaving the Coach and Horses as the only village pub.
In his 1746 experiment, Marggraf heated a mixture of calamine and charcoal in a closed vessel without copper to obtain a metal.
The school itself closed in bankruptcy in 1994 and the house was converted into luxury flats.
There was a degree of discrimination, with the most important administrative jobs in Wales usually closed to Welsh people.
When the through route was opened Pant and Morfa stations closed and the original station became the town's only station.
The quarry closed in July 1969, the result of industry decline and difficult slate removal.
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Their survival rate did not match those of the steam locomotives, and when the quarry closed in 1969 only 3 still survived.
Of the many chapels, few are still used for their original purpose and a number of closed since the turn of the millennium.
The railway stations that once populated the Rhondda Fach were all closed after the Beeching Axe.
In 1925, it was announced that the Royal Dockyards at Pembroke Dock and Rosyth were redundant and would be closed.
In closed list systems, each party lists its candidates according to the party's candidate selection process.
There is an intermediate system in countries like Uruguay, where each party presents several closed lists, each representing a faction.
A number of stations have closed, including those at Newbridge and Abertillery.
Stations in Canton and Grangetown were closed in 2013 and 2009 respectively.
The smaller prisons and jails across the country were closed and the location of the prisons centralised.
The line closed to passengers in 1959, although sections remain as bridleways and footbridges.
In 2011, when it closed the congregation moved to their new home in Christ Church.
The colliery lasted until 1973 when it was closed due to geological problems.
The station is closed, and trains run fast through what remains of the station.
Despite these accomplishments, his 1809 theatre was closed in 1818 due to lack of patronage.
Storms were responsible for further damage in 1909 and the pier was closed in 1913 as unsafe.
Ocean Beach finally closed on 2 September 2007 and was demolished to make way for a planned new development, Ocean Plaza.
In captivity, dolphins seemingly enter a fully asleep state where both eyes are closed and there is no response to mild external stimuli.
For example, the closed seasons for hake lasts approximately two months, September and October, depending on the level of stock.
As South Africa began cutting ties with Britain, the mint closed on the 30 June 1941 only to be later reopened as the South African Mint.
The centre closed in December 2009 after the company which ran it, Model House Ltd, went into liquidation.
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Chester General railway station remains in use but Chester Northgate closed in 1969 as a result of the Beeching Axe.
From August 2007 the street was closed to private vehicles, leaving only buses, cycles and taxis allowed to access the whole street.
King's Lynn was to have remained at the centre of routes towards Norwich, Hunstanton and Wisbech, all of which closed.
Many redundant structures from closed lines remain, such as bridges over other lines and drainage culverts.
Some of the closed routes would now be heavily used, possibly even important trunk routes.
This line closed in stages between 1966 and 1969 after just 60 years of service, 28 years before the opening of the Channel Tunnel rail link.
A few closed stations have reopened, and passenger services been restored on a few lines where they had been removed.
The sidewalk adjacent to the damaged bridge stonework shall be closed until further notice.
After Hereford Council put pressure on the LNWR, they closed Hereford Barton to passengers, using it as a joint goods depot.
Under the 1960s Beeching Axe, many of the supporting branch lines were closed and the Hereford Barton loop closed.
Pontrilas railway station currently closed in the very long section without an intermediate station between Abergavenny and Hereford.
If the line is closed between Cardiff Central and Bridgend, an alternative route exists along the Vale of Glamorgan Line.
The Beamish and Crawford on South Main Street closed in April 2009 and transferred production to the Murphy's brewery in Lady's Well.
The railway and Ruthin railway station closed in 1963 as part of the Beeching Axe.
He listened to the wind in the trees, his eyes closed in rapture.
He caught her as she went past and pulled her around. She threw up her hands and closed her good eye. Aiee, she cried. Aiee.
He lay down, cuddled the blankets up to his ears, closed his eyes and composed himself to sleep, at peace with his conscience and the world.
When the eyes of those who fish for eels are closed, the eyes of those who fish for the aua are open.
Since officially declaring bandhood around the turn of the millennium, the Bad Plus has convincingly modeled a closed society.
How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present!
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What you do with your girlfriend behind closed doors is none of my business.
For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed.
The three-day festivities closed with bou-bhat, when the bride served rice to the male elders of her husband's family.
Then, with a shock like a thousand goods trains crashing into a thousand pairs of buffers, the lips of rock closed.
With her biggest marble, a Bumboozer, poised like a bomb between her thumb and forefinger, she closed one eye and took a steadying breath.
Rugby station used to be served by lines which have now been closed, including lines to Leicester.
Keep the ports closed, but clear away the port guns, and stand by for a broadside. Another two cable lengths and we have them.
The leaders held a closed door meeting to decide on a future course of action in the case.
Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.
In fact, we show that OCAs with counter visibility are effectively determinizable and closed under all boolean operations.
Use a closed fist or assume the Dracula sneeze pose to temper germ transmission.
On the other hand all closed lakes of the kind now being considered must lie in endorheic regions.
Instead, enthlasis, either open or closed, may have been the reason for this trepanation.
In defining an Euler graph, some authors drop the requirement that the Euler line be closed.
The other girls appeared to be sleeping through it as well, but there's an old saying that says every closed eye isn't sleeping.
But some busybody got a whiff of an exotic cheroot and the place was closed down.
Contrary to orders, the trucks closed in upon each other and sometimes even raced side by side, despite the extended-order drill.
He tossed in a couple of extra shirts for good measure and closed the suitcase.
Many never closed their doors, and all were gemuetlich and respectable, if noisy.
Greensticks are generally closed fractures, but occasionally with external wounds they become open.
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One gray beard who found the gates closed shinned up the fifteen foot fence...and dropped into the baseball heaven he was seeking.
Ventnor Brewery, which closed in 2009, was the last incarnation of Burt's Brewery, brewing since the 1840s in Ventnor.
The growth in tourist numbers continued into the age of the motor car, when railways began to be closed or run down.
Mornflake is in Crewe on the B5071, Focus closed in July 2011, and Orion Optics make telescopes.
Bosal was the UK's leading manufacturer of car exhausts on Walton Summit, between the M6 and M61 until they closed operations.
On the Bolton boundary in north of the borough in Little Hulton, Eaton Transmissions closed in 2006, with production moving to Tczew in Poland.
Colgate closed its toothpaste factory in October 2008, on the A5066, and is now called Soapworks, near the former Pomona Docks in Ordsall.
The A635 was closed for almost a month in January 2010 due to high amounts of snowfall.
The LG Electronics microwave oven factory opened in 1989, closed in May 2004, and later became the site of the Tanfield Group.
The Wars of Independence largely closed English universities to Scots, and consequently continental universities became more significant.
The flasks for hydrosilylation were closed by septa and dried with a hotgun under a nitrogen flow.
After the mandrel bar extractor pulls out the mandrel, a hot saw cuts off the closed bottom and also the open end of the tube.
On 23 June 2013 the A344 was closed to begin the work of removing the section of road and replacing it with grass.
However, in 1985 the site was closed to festivalgoers by English Heritage and the National Trust.
The waves seemed to have closed over the Umbar episode, perhaps owing to his own ignoscible treatment of the subject and the absconding rogues.
So much 'performance art' tends to be a kind of closed, aloof, imagistic, private vision.
The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.
Someone else may want to consider whether the AFDs should be closed as initiated disruptively by a sock of an indeffed user.
Rhys of Deheubarth, also called Lord Rhys, and Owain Gwynedd were closed to negotiations.
When healing occurs by primary intention, the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.
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The Navy's Northern Patrol closed off access to the North Sea, while the Dover Patrol closed off access to the English Channel.
When their houses were closed down some monks sought to transfer to larger houses.
The English then closed, firing repeated and damaging broadsides into the enemy ships.
At night this gap is closed off by a simple concrete Jersey barrier, and the pit is left to those outside the wire.
The old line of locks in Runcorn fell into disuse in the late 1930s, and they were closed under the Ship Canal Act of 1949 and filled in.
From the 1970s, increasing numbers of closed canals were restored by enthusiast volunteers.
In the 1950s and 60s, these factories either switched to using other fuels, often because of the Clean Air Act of 1956, or closed completely.
Behind closed doors and in pub back rooms, plans were drawn up for a mass protest.
In February, the Soviets entered Silesia and Pomerania, while Western Allies entered western Germany and closed to the Rhine river.
There is concern that hospital beds are being closed without increased community provision.
As of late February 2017 the BBC reported hospital services are to be cut and some hospitals closed in two thirds of England.
Hospital services could be cut in nearly two thirds of England and some hospitals will be completely closed.
Tackling vested interests and opening up closed circles in British society were also themes he returned to a number of times.
After this case, once the Lords had given a ruling on a point of law, the matter was closed unless and until Parliament made a change by statute.
However, the airport struggled to attract many scheduled services and closed following the opening of Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
Many pits closed in the 1990s, with the last two open in the Pontefract area at Kellingley and Sharlston.
Terry's chocolate was closed in September 2005 by its new owner Kraft Foods, and production moved to Poland.
Egg Banking was on Pride Park in Derby, until Barclays closed the site in 2011, and moved the business to its Northampton credit card site.
The Government shut the Government office for the East of England in 2011, the East of England Development Agency is being closed also.
In 1625, a House of Correction was established in Shepton Mallet, and when it closed HMP Shepton Mallet was England's oldest prison still in use.
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The Port of Bristol Authority finally closed the dock in 1992, and it has now been developed into a marina and residential area.
The walk along Walbrook Wharf is closed to pedestrians when waste is being transferred onto barges.
On the French side, owing to the greater permeability to water, earth pressure balance TBMs with open and closed modes were used.
On 21 August 2006, the tunnel was closed for several hours when a truck on an HGV shuttle train caught fire.
The tunnel was closed to all traffic, with the undamaged South Tunnel reopening for limited services two days later.
On 29 November 2012, the tunnel was closed for several hours after a truck on an HGV shuttle caught fire.
On 17 January 2015, both tunnels were closed following a lorry fire which filled the midsection of Running Tunnel North with smoke.
At the end of 2002, the Sangatte centre was closed after the UK agreed to take some of its refugees.
A third orthodox Synagogue in the Greenbank Park area of L17 has recently closed, and is a listed 1930s structure.
My school closed down already. My wife's school also sibei laoya one. Sigh.
The last ferry was the Aust Ferry, which closed in 1966 when the Severn Bridge opened.
Tucker Street closed in 1963 under the Beeching Axe, which closed the Yatton to Witham line to passengers.
The previous cinema, The Regal in Priory Road, closed in 1993 and is now Kudos Nightclub.
The Ripon to Harrogate Line was closed in the 1960s as part of the Beeching cuts.
Many grammar schools were either closed or changed to comprehensive status.
The line was extended to the Truro River at Newham in 1855 Then Truro Road Station closed and Newham served as the terminus.
A rail terminal at Furzebrook connecting to the Swanage Railway between Corfe Castle and Wareham is now closed and mothballed.
Preston once had lines to Southport and Longridge which closed to passengers in 1965 and 1930 respectively.
The museum closed in 2011 in preparation for its move to Manchester due to funding issues.
Repair work gradually diminished until, finally the locomotive works closed, the land being redeveloped as Pride Park.
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Built in 1933, it was closed in 2005 and later demolished, despite the protests of environmentalists and conservationists.
They aim to continue the work and traditions of the former Derby School, which closed in 1989, one of the oldest schools in England.
In the early 1980s, then Defence Secretary John Nott concluded that of the four home dockyards, both Portsmouth and Chatham would be closed.
Police investigations took place, but were closed as Hawking refused to make a complaint.
Jeeves failed to make any impact at the box office and closed after a short run of only three weeks.
When the westward extension was opened junction 8 was closed and a new junction built a little to the west, taking both numbers.
Some lines are occasionally closed for scheduled engineering work at weekends.
During peak hours, stations can get so crowded that they need to be closed.
The small Bold Street Depot in Fleetwood was closed and a loop constructed at Fleetwood Ferry.
The existing terminus at Snow Hill has been closed, which has allowed a fourth platform at Snow Hill to be reinstated for railway use.
In summer 2001 the Wolverhampton section was temporarily closed because of a risk of electrocution posed by drooping power cables.
Many lines closed by British Railways, including many closed during the Beeching cuts, have been restored and reopened as heritage railways.
From 15 February 2014, this link closed again for a major upgrade as described below.
In August 2013, the old carriageway of the A45 road was closed, and the new carriageway was opened.
The railway fell into disuse and eventually closed altogether, following the introduction of electric trams and buses.
The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing.
The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed, and provisions were brought in from the outhouses.
During renewed sectarian unrest in Rakhine State in 2012, Bangladesh closed its borders amid fears of a third major exodus from Myanmar.
But the Inspector was made of stern stuff. He closed his right hand and with the resulting fist pounded formidably on the bronze.
After a ritual has finished, the God, Goddess and Guardians are thanked, the directions are dismissed and the circle is closed.
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By the end of the 1980s, all of the grammar schools in Wales and most of those in England had closed or converted.
In 2011, the castle was closed to guided tours whilst refurbishments were carried out.
The road is closed to coaches and buses, after many years of complaints by residents that the tour buses were disruptive.
After Courtaulds ground was closed, Warwickshire played several games at Coventry and North Warwickshire Cricket Club at Binley Road.
Modern rodeo competitors in timed events sometimes use a closed rein without a romal.
Teach watched as the gap between the vessels closed, and ordered his men to be ready.
In May 1992, Dairy Crest, a subsidiary of the Milk Marketing Board, closed the Hawes creamery with the loss of 59 jobs.
All theatres were closed down by the Puritan government during the Interregnum.
Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the mass of the fugitives in their escape.
Dryden's solution was a closed couplet in iambic pentameter that would have a minimum of enjambment.
When the museum finally closed in 2001, these items were returned to Lord Abinger, who descends from a niece of Lady Jane Shelley.
Aspects had a run of four years in London, but closed after less than a year on Broadway.
However it received harsh reviews from critics and closed in May 2006 after 39 performances.
It opened in July 1903, but the show was unsuccessful and closed after two weeks.
Both actors won excellent notices, but the play, an allegory of Britain's decay, did not attract the public and closed after four weeks.
One of the Royal Navy's largest bases was at Portland Harbour, though it has since closed.
Salts Mill closed as a textile mill in February 1986, and Jonathan Silver bought it the following year and began renovating it.
Also, openings such as doors and windows were secured closed as to protect patrons against cold drafts.
The 18th century saw the switch from closed parochial libraries to lending libraries.
A closed competition was held, and the schemes produced were noticeably more restrained than in the earlier competition.
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The first match at the stadium was a game played behind closed doors between Multiplex and Wembley Stadium staff.
The president of the organizing committee and the CGF president make their closing speeches and the Games are officially closed.
The fight was stopped at the end of the ninth round, when Eubank's left eye closed completely from swelling.
Because of this, the golf facilities are closed when the course is used for horse or motor racing.
On 5 September 2011, Button opened a restaurant on Beulah Street in Harrogate called Victus, but it closed after less than a year in trading.
The rest of the 1970 season was nailbiting, as Ferrari closed in on Rindt's undefended lead.
In North America, road racing is motor racing held on a paved closed circuit with both left and right turns.
The closed cell structure of white oaks prevent them from absorbing preservatives.
Gradually, Greenland was opened up to Danish merchants, and closed to those from other countries.
Economic activities slowed down and schools were closed for weeks at the height of SARS epidemic.
The debating chamber was subsequently closed, and MSPs moved to The Hub for one week, whilst inspections were carried out.
The protected area would be 234,291 square kilometers, half of which would be closed to fishing.
The site closed in 2008 and courses were relocated to the Coleraine and the newly developed Belfast campuses.
Those who were still queuing when polls closed were not denied the chance to vote.
In 1538, Henry VIII closed the Dominican and Franciscan friaries in Cardiff, the remains of which were used as building materials.
Indeed, the Gaelic world had never been closed off from its neighbours in England or continental Europe.
With the decline of Mughal Empire power in the 18th century, both canals fell into disrepair and closed.
In the decades following 1960, all the mines in Limburg were closed.
The Redditch factory was closed in 1967 and production was moved to the Bradford on Avon factory, which closed in 1970, ending English Enfield manufacturing.
Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied.
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If the slightly agape mouth is closed prior to mouth opening, this is termed the preparatory phase and is more common in suction-feeding bony fishes than elasmobranchs.
On 31 October 2012 the building was closed for demolition and replacement by a new design, inspired by traditional Scottish buildings, by Reiach and Hall Architects.
Perhaps it was this atmosphere of misplacedness and loneliness as much as anything which led her to speak to him one evening in early summer when the office had closed.
It manages the development of competitive swimming sports from starter to international level, and organises competitions, including closed, national and open championships.
Music, art and academia is about crossing borders not building them, about open minds not closed ones, about shared humanity, dialogue and freedom of expression.
The intestines were repositioned, and the abdominal musculature and skin incisions were closed by standard techniques with absorbable suture and autoclips.
The East Moors Steelworks closed in 1978 and Cardiff lost population during the 1980s, consistent with a wider pattern of counter urbanisation in Britain.
The majority of this hospital was closed in 1999 but with the West Wing remaining open for clinic services, genitourinary medicine and rehabilitation treatment.
Most offices in foreign countries are expected to be closed as well.
Libya's opening home match in the World Cup qualifiers against Cameroon will be played at a neutral venue and behind closed doors, FIFA said on Friday.
A hybrid jet engine like SABRE needs only reach low hypersonic speeds inside the lower atmosphere before engaging its closed cycle mode, whilst climbing, to build speed.
By 1966, after the Green Gallery and the Ferus Gallery closed, the Leo Castelli Gallery represented Rosenquist, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Johns, Lichtenstein and Ruscha.
James locked up before going to bed in the kitchen but awoke early next morning to hear footsteps beyond the closed wooden shtters of his box-bed.
A bipartisan group of nine U.S. Senators, after meeting for nine months behind closed doors, is nearing an agreement on the broad strokes of a health-care-reform bill.
The regulator valve was then closed and the water injection valve V' briefly snapped open and shut, sending a spray of cold water into the cylinder.
The heat is supplied externally to a closed loop with some of the heat added being converted to work and the waste heat being removed in a condenser.
Daria closed her eyes, exhaling slow smoke through her nostrils, listening to the bumpity sound of wheels on the polished cobblestone unevenness of the street.
Some things were simply not done by professionals. Full stop. Case closed.
She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.
Jane had sealed up the cat flap, closed the ever-open window of the laundry, but there the cat somehow managed to be, staring up with a look of dependence.

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