Shutting Sentence Examples

It was almost as if he were shutting Felipa off before she could reveal something.

She was shutting him out?

Shutting the door after her, Alex reached for Carmen.

We delayed a decision until we'd discussed our shutting down with the others.

Shutting off the reading lamp, he backed out of the room and silently shut the door.

If his week was any indication, this was not about to fix itself as easily as the portal shutting out his assassins.

He was shutting her out.

Even the sound of the door shutting did nothing to jar him.

Shutting the computer down, she left the office.

People have a way of shutting out things they aren't ready to deal with yet, or can't accept.

In fact dissemination seems to have taken place, as usual, by the conversion of one house after another into a focus of disease, a process favoured by the fatal custom of shutting up infected houses with all their inmates, which was not only almost equivalent to a sentence of death on all therein, but caused a dangerous concentration of the poison.

He failed, however, to realize his ambition of shutting in the Capet king and isolating him from the rest of Europe by crafty alliances, notably that with the emperor Frederick Barbarossawhile watching an opportunity to supplant him upon the French throne.

The deity Fate had told him as much, after shutting down Gabriel's access to the underworld.

Vaguely she was aware of a vehicle door shutting outside and the front door opening, but it wasn't a conscious thought until Katie and Alex were walking down the hall.

Instead, after opening and shutting many drawers, Melanie came across the diary of Miss S L Gleaden.

A voltage across the channel acted like a gate voltage in a conventional transistor, shutting off the flow of potassium ional transistor, shutting off the flow of potassium ions.

It was like my God shutting a door on me, I have never felt so lost, due to my own selfish actions.

The Chinese authorities now call the separatists in the western province of Xinjiang " terrorists " to justify repression and shutting down publications.

A voltage across the channel acted like a gate voltage in a conventional transistor, shutting off the flow of potassium ions.

They heard a crunching, grinding sound, a loud snap, and the turn-table came to a stop with its broadest surface shutting off the path from which they had come.

One day some gentlemen called on my mother, and I felt the shutting of the front door and other sounds that indicated their arrival.

Begin by doing all of these things while leaving the door open, and then progress to shutting the door behind him for short periods.

We tried shutting the door, but she barks very loudly.

With research, you can also find news stories about authorities shutting down mills or reporters going undercover at a suspected mill.

Between the Oxus and the hills there has already been formed a rise or flexure in the ground, which extends more or less parallel to the northern edge of the hills, and, shutting in the cultivated area of the plains, arrests all tributaries seeking to effect a junction with the Oxus from the south, and leads to the formation of marshes and swamps.

In 323 Constantine, tempted by the "advanced age and unpopular vices" of his colleague, again declared war against him, and, having defeated his army at Adrianople (3rd of July 323), succeeded in shutting him up within the walls of Byzantium.

Shutting off the sources of the Indus affluents from those of the Central Asian system of hydrography, this great water-parting is distinguished by a group of peaks of which the altitude is hardly less than that of the Eastern Himalaya.

Demosthenes was bent on shutting it against him.

Seistan Proper is bounded on the north by the Naizar, or reed-bed which fringes the Hamun; west by the Hamun itself, of which the hill called Kuh-i-Khwajah marks the central point; south by a line shutting in Sikuha and all villages and lands watered by the main Seistan canal; and east by the old bed of the Helmund, from i m.

By shutting down, what he deems unprofitable, it would increase demand on parking spaces.

The invention of the barometer and Torricelli's explanation of the vacuity above the mercury column placed before the members of the Florentine academy a ready method of obtaining vacua; for to exhaust a vessel it was only necessary to join, by means of a tube provided with stopcocks, the vessel to a barometer tube, fill the compound vessel with mercury and then to invert it in a basin containing this liquid, whereupon the mercury column fell, leaving a Torricellian vacuum in the vessel, which could be removed after shutting off the stop-cocks.

The irrigated area is divided into districts, in each of which is an overseer and a staff of watchmen to see to the opening and shutting of the modules (see Hydraulics, §§ 54 to 56) which deliver the water into the minor channels.

It was and still is held by many that the criminal may be best and most effectually weaned from his evil ways by shutting him up for lengthy periods between four walls, and subjecting him, when most susceptible, to curative processes, to constant exhortation and searching introspection, changing his nature and restoring him to society a reformed man.

Vulture hurried in quickly, shutting the door with a snap.

If the soil is suitable, the shutting post can be set simply in tamped soil, as it takes no strain.

In China, the government is now shutting down any vestige of democracy or rule of law left in Hong Kong.

Most store's policy is for the cashier to shut the register drawer and call for a supervisor so it can be figure out by shutting down the register and counting the money.

Feline renal failure simply means that your cat's kidneys are shutting down for some reason.

A child's natural instinct is to react, either with anger, or by shutting down completely.

You can do this either by staring at a candle flame or shutting your eyes to close out the world.

One of the challenges of shutting down a puppy mill is that the laws are not clearly defined.

Essentially, dying is the body's process of shutting down.

When the dog's internal organs begin to slow their functions in prelude to shutting down, the hunger impulse disappears completely.

Leaf damage retards plant growth, shutting down the 'factories' within the leaves that manufacture food for the plant.

Before shutting up shop when the cold weather strikes, complete your winter check list and come spring you can jump right into the exciting part of vegetable gardening.

Seniors who travel frequently might not want to buy a new home and deal with the hassle of shutting down utilities and obtaining people to house-sit.

The pons sends messages, shutting off the motor neurons in the spinal cord.

It's time to take action when keeping the temperature in check isn't enough for shutting your brain off to sleep.

In a person with a normal immune system, some inflammation may follow stress or trauma, but the pyrin protein is responsible for shutting down the response of neutrophils once they are no longer needed.

It was not that her clothing line was shutting its doors; she was simply re-branding.

In fact, the town is so overrun by "ghost hunters" that they've begun shutting down all celebrations and activities during Halloween to discourage ghost enthusiasts from visiting.

The problem with shutting down is that the empath often becomes irritable and nervous since empathy is a normal function for her..

The Chief informs the doctors he is shutting down the trial at midnight unless they finally save someone.

This means mentally shutting out other objects and events while you practice yoga.

Hurricane Katrina and Rita's gut punches decimated oil refineries along the Gulf Coast, effectively shutting down more than 30% of U.S. production facilities.

Insurance can't cover all the expenses of rebuilding, so a business owner has a choice of rebuilding with less, or letting go and shutting down for good.

Online search engines can help you locate companies anticipating shutting down.

An advertisement that a business seeks to liquidate its assets because the owner anticipates shutting down or is up for auction due to insolvency indicates that you may be able to purchase the company.

This may also mean shutting down instant messengers and emails for a couple of hours each day in order to get tasks done.

Insulin counter-acts the sudden spike of blood sugar, but does so by effectively shutting down any fat burning activities and instead nudges your body into fat accumulation mode.

Insulin also switches the body into fat storage-mode, effectively shutting down any fat loss processes you may have had going.

He eventually bought the brand Experimental and Applied Sciences (EAS) and promoted the company's meal replacement powders and supplements in the magazine for many years before shutting down the magazine and selling the company.

By 2010, some ISPs were voluntarily shutting down accounts of users who used P2P and bit torrent networks to download copyrighted material while other ISPs were fighting RIAA claims in court.

Despite the pressure to deal with those stations, the Irish government in general took a lax attitude towards enforcing laws against pirate radio stations and shutting them down.

He was shutting her out again.

Afterward he left, shutting the door with force.

She opened the door and scrambled out, shutting it without another word.

Shutting her out was exactly what Brandon was doing.

So, that's why you've been shutting me out.

Even the book was shutting him out.

He stood and headed for the door, shutting off the light as he left his home office.

A slender lady dressed in an expensive looking dark suit swung out of the car and stood, slowly shutting the door.

Shutting the last gate, Alex glanced at her and grinned.

The past few months, I've come close to breaking it hundreds of times to keep the underworld from shutting down.

He was accepting his obligation to her while shutting off everything but the physical side of him.

He grabbed the box and walked out of the room, shutting the door without looking back.

He paused before shutting it.

Shutting it with one hand, he grabbed her with the other.

He chuckled, turning back to his computer and shutting it down.

Was Alex shutting Jonathan out the way he was with her?

If the weather is mild, a moderate heat may be obtained by using the apparatus as an ordinary hot water system, and shutting off the steam injectors.

All of them together really go to make up the "Shutting of the Great Council," a name which is formally given to the act of the first of those years.

Some of the great families which were already looked on as noble were not represented in the council at the time of the shutting; of others some branches were represented and others not.

If the later nobilitas of Rome had established an assembly in which every one who had the jus imaginum had a vote and none other, that would have been a real parallel to the shutting of the Venetian Great Council; for it would have come about through the working of causes which are essentially the same.

In short, the shutting out of the old nobility was, if not the formation of a new nobility, at least the formation of a Civic new privileged class.

In Scorpio the completion of the horizontal plate by oblique flaps, so as to form an actual diaphragm shutting off the cavity of the prosoma from the rest of the body, possibly gives to the organs contained in the anterior chamber a physiological advantage in respect of the supply of arterial blood and its separation from the venous blood of the mesosoma.

North of the plateau rises a well-watered and undulating belt of country, into which run low ranges of limestone hills, sometimes arid, sometimes covered with dwarf-oak, and often shutting in, between their northern and north-eastern flank and the main mountain-line from which they detach themselves, rich plains and fertile valleys.

It receives a number of short streams from the ranges shutting in the upper end of the valley; the largest is the Ramiz, formed by the two streams of Pucara and Azangaro, both coming from the Knot of Vilcanota to the north.

During the campaign of 1805, Bernadotte with an army corps from Hanover co-operated in the great movement which resulted in the shutting up of Mack in Ulm.

But on the whole the false prophets deserve that name, not for their conscious impostures, but because they were content to handle religious formulas, which they had learned by rote, as if they were intuitive principles, the fruit of direct spiritual experience, to enforce a conventional morality, shutting their eyes to glaring national sins, after the manner of professional orthodoxy, and, in brief, to treat the religious status quo as if it could be accepted without question as fully embodying the unchanging principles of all religion.

The aim is not self-destruction, but self-preservation; and yet the ethics of Manichaeism appears in point of fact as thoroughly ascetic. The Manichaean had, above all, to refrain from sensual enjoyment, shutting himself up against it by three seals - the signaculum oris, manus and sinus.

The barrier was originally formed of a number of long square wooden spars which could be readily handled by one man, being inclined slightly - from the vertical and placed close together for shutting the weir; but panels of wood or sheetiron closing the space between adjacent frames and sliding in grooves at the sides, and rolling-up curtains ?

A very few have the power of swimming by opening and shutting the valves of the shell (Pecten, Lima); most can crawl slowly or burrow rapidly; others are, when adult, permanently fixed to stones or rocks either by the shell or the byssus.

The glochidium quits the gillpouch of its parent and swims by alternate opening and shutting of the valves of its shell, as do adult Pecten and Lima, trailing at the same time a long byssus thread.

Feeble plans were formed, but not carried into effect, for shutting the gates upon the stadtholder, who entered the city with troops on the night of the 26th of July 1618.

The points which require constant attention are - the perfect freedom of all carriers, feeders and drains from every kind of obstruction, however minute; the state and amount of water in the river or stream, whether it be sufficient to irrigate the whole area properly or only a part of it; the length of time the water should be allowed to remain on the meadow at different periods of the season; the regulation of the depth of the water, its quantity and its rate of flow, in accordance with the temperature and the condition of the herbage; the proper times for the commencing and ending of pasturing and of shutting up for hay; the mechanical condition of the surface of the ground; the cutting out of any very large and coarse plants, as docks; and the improvement of the physical and chemical conditions of the soil by additions to it of sand, silt, loam, `` chalk, &c.

A noteworthy feature of the Seistan lagoon is that in times of excessive flood it overspreads a vast area of country, both to the north and south, shutting off the capital of Seistan (Nusretabad) from surrounding districts, and spreading through a channel southwards, known as Shelag, to another great depression, called the Gaud-i-Zirreh.