1.   As a result, city officials on Monday closed sections of Rockaway Beach.

2.   As is sometimes the case, the section had been closed temporarily to walkers to prevent an accident.

3.   Awe-inspiring treasures in some museums cannot be seen because whole sections have been closed for lack of funds.

4.   By this weekend, city officials may close that section to waders until it can be cleared.

5.   Cars jammed a mile-and-a-half portion of the southbound Saw Mill Parkway in Yonkers after the police closed a section of flooded road.

6.   He spent most of Sunday and Monday in his study in the White House, fussing particularly with the opening and closing sections.

7.   To prevent possible clashes, the British government had earlier closed a section of the wall that overlooks the Catholic Bogside neighborhood.

8.   Yahoo closed a section devoted to pornographic videos in its shopping area, and it said that it would no longer take advertisements from pornographic Web sites.

9.   Police also closed a section of the autobahn outside the town of Pforzheim, south of Baden-Baden.

10.   Police closed sections of the highway to stop congestion in Dover.