1.   A sale to a Chinese party might help Telecom expand in the Chinese market, which, so far, is shut to foreign companies.

2.   However, the food and drink service are halted and the doors shut to the dining room and then to the East Room.

3.   If an investor does bite, it will get foothold in a car market largely shut to foreigners.

4.   Its aid program has been abysmal, and its markets stay shut to Russian goods.

5.   Laporte said there are no current plans to re-open New Horizons since it was shut to investors in June.

6.   London Life is shut to new business with the company managing and paying out existing policies.

7.   Most rural people thus spent Christmas ignoring the celebrating, with doors and minds shut to the pockets of seasonal merrymaking.

8.   Most rural people thus spent Christmas ignoring the celebrating, with doors and minds shut to seasonal merrymaking.

9.   Pakistani officials held firm to a policy of allowing the neediest cases to enter but keeping the border shut to most refugees.

10.   Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House was shut to traffic for a while but reopened later.