1.   And while the House side remained quiet and closed off by police, the Senate side teemed with noise.

2.   Police, playing it safe, closed off a stretch of the area until the poster could be repaired.

3.   To him, the restaurant was not so much a sign of growing openness as evidence of how closed off to gay people most of China remains.

4.   The government also let people enter a closed off danger zone Saturday to board homes and find shelter for livestock and domestic animals.

5.   The streets around the Mexican Embassy remained closed off Friday afternoon and scores of police officers patrolled the area.

6.   Beaches that resembled those of Normandy were closed off as military terrain and used for training, with the troops storming models of German installations.

7.   The closed off area around the city wall was Thursday ringed with barbed wire and barricade by huge concrete blocks and fleets of armored police and military vehicles.