Confronted with the new onslaught, several factories have simply closed down.
The weakest will be merged, nationalised or simply closed down.
Shoppers, it appeared, had simply closed their pocketbooks.
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Simply closed itself down with immediate effect.
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Her frustration with him and his intransigence welled up and she was thinking of leaving, letting him lie in his own mess until the orderly arrived, when she noticed that his eyes were not simply closed but squeezed shut, like those of a child playing hide-and-seek.
Dick Durbin assure us, not because they want to use federal money to indemnify their home state for a white-elephant prison Illinois taxpayers should never have built, but because Guantanamo Bay simply must be closed.
CNN's Christine Romans explained that a lot of the closed gas stations simply don't have electricity to operate their pumps, while others cannot get gasoline delivered to the station from the refinery because of blocked roads or other logistical problems created by the storm.
With one door closed, investors have simply been escaping through another.
The overriding belief at Castle Huntly is that if offenders are simply released back into society from a closed prison, then they are much more likely to re-offend, that someone who has been helped and rehabilitated first has a better chance of making something of their life.
His conjecture, made in 1904, was that in this four-dimensional world, all closed three-dimensional surfaces that are simply connected could be transformed to look like a three-dimensional sphere.
It simply is not acceptable for BMW to play games behind closed doors with the lives and jobs of thousands of workers and their families.
In the heart of the city, in the First Arrondissement, it is simply one of the world's most acclaimed hotels, but closed for a multi-year restoration that will not be complete until the middle of next year (2014).
What you do, then, is simply ask your unconscious the question: is this person open or closed to me?
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