When they had shut him out of the theater and the concert hall, Paul knew he had to leave.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

She seemed to want it so. She shut out the sunshine and put away many of the pictures.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

This is what she wrote as a young girl: "Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist I sit alone and wait at life's shut door.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

The door of the spacecraft refused to shut tightly.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

It shut down and partially dismantled the Yongbyon reactor, including the televised demolition of its cooling tower in May of last year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

He says he has shut four of his six units and has asked 750 workers to leave.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Greek protests over the unpopular measures have resulted in a virtual shut down of the nation's transportation network, along with most government services.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

He was very hurt by the strike, which shut down operations for quite a period of time."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Fifty percent of the state's oyster production is shut down, there but for now prices remain steady.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

North Korea has shut-down and partly dismantled its nuclear reactor complex under terms of the accord.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

from getting shut out of Brazil, a growing market for American exports.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

The auto company shut down most of its facilities for the summer, but the Hamtramck assembly plant remained open, for employees like Leblanc to get the Volt rolling.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Earlier this month CIA director Panetta banned the use of contract - that is,non-employee - interrogators and ordered the agency's network of secret prisons to be shut down.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Much of the horrific sectarian violence across Iraq in 2006 and 2007 was tied to Sunnis boycotting the last national elections and then being shut out of government.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Dozens of Asian financial companies shut down, and many banks merged with others, or sold large stakes to foreign investors Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda became Thailand's finance minister during the crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Lithuania's Soviet-built nuclear power plant was shut down late Thursday as part of an agreement with the European Union, ushering in a new era of energy uncertainty for the country.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

In an extraordinary move that sent Toyota stock prices plummeting, the world's largest automaker has suspended sales of eight of its most popular models and shut down five North American plants.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Experts say the August 6 attacks that briefly shut down the Twitter and Facebook social networking websites were aimed at silencing a Georgian blogger who is critical of Russia's military incursion into his country last year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

And these mudbugs,as some call them, are about to become an even more important part of the region's seafood platters now that shrimp,oyster, and crab harvesting has been shut down in affected areas of the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

"You need two to tango . And as Mexico seeks to shut down the flow of drugs coming into the United States from Mexico and South America, we need the support of the United States to shut down the flow of weapons ,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

They really,I think, represented us very well." Among the American highlights - alpine skier Bode Miller, a two-time overall World Cup champion, ended the frustration of being shut out in the last Olympics by winning a set of medals, a gold,silver and bronze.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

He also is a commercial crabber and fisherman. He says if the shut down continues on the east side of the Mississippi, Louisiana's' seafood industry will survive,because 70 percent of the state's fish and shellfish come from the west side of the river.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08