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They were shutting down streets and had helicopters flying overhead. I didn't get to meet her, there was so much security and Secret Service.

Rick King

I've never heard of this happening, ... Intentionally shutting down the Internet. That's news.

Tom Snyder

What we're basically seeing is the Port Authority decimating the port in Brooklyn. This is part of the pattern of them shutting down the port.

Matt Yates

Brian continues to be one of the best defensive catchers in the game, shutting the running game down. Offensively, his on-base percentage and slugging percentage continue to improve every single year. His strikeouts continue to be reduced every year.

Jim Bowden

Our biggest concern after one game is our pass defense, ... We rallied to the ball well, but we have to do a better job of shutting down the short stuff.

Mike Gardner

We had to play catch-up all night, and they did a good job of shutting down all of us offensively. We didn't get many chances.

Geoff Sanderson

I thought we could have been a little more aggressive. But all the credit goes to them for shutting us down the last couple of games.

Neil Giesler

The biggest thing is shutting him down through the middle and keeping him to the wall, and trying to keep the puck along the boards. It's going to be a challenge.

Ryan Parent

I thought we did fairly well on defense and played a strong transition game. They have some tough girls and we did a good job shutting them down.

Brian Musty

When we came out at halftime, that's all we were thinking about — shutting these guys out. It was like we were seven points down, that's the mentality we tried to take into the second half.

Lito Sheppard

As we have seen, they don't flinch at shutting people down.

Betty Ray

Last time we didn't do a very good job of shutting those (other) girls down.

Gene Rasmussen

I think she was dropped off but we don't know by who. Her story is really inconsistent. We are trying to get information out of her but she's shutting down.

Lisa Whiting

It can help protect the market in times of crisis. Instead of shutting down all trade, it helps you respond to the situation at hand.

Joe Queenan

We've shut everything down. We evacuated all our workers from the offshore platforms in the Gulf, shutting in production. We have shut down operations at our Texas City refinery.

David Nicholas

It was a defensive battle throughout. Our defense did a good job of shutting them down with some really tight man-to-man.

Bryce Swafford

I hope this problem doesn't end up shutting human/animal contact areas down - but it might.

Jim Keen

We had a tough time shutting down their offense. And we missed a lot of foul shots the first three quarters. When you do that it affects your offensive execution.

Rachael Moore

Shutting things down for two or three days is not that costly.

Scott Borg

We're not in the business of shutting people off. The people we're most concerned about are not those that can't pay, it's those that can afford to but don't.

Dan Mccarthy

We completed the process of shutting our operations down as it became clear that this is a very severe storm heading towards us.

David Nicholas

I'm a lobbyist, and I have no interest in shutting down lobbying.

Craig Holman

They had a nice run to begin the second half so I told the guys they had to tighten up the defense. From that point on, we did a nice job of shutting down their shooters.

Tim Loomis

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Greg Waits

With the serious energy problems we will face this winter, what DOE is proposing is like shutting down the FEMA regional offices before the next hurricane. These are the extension agents of energy efficiency, and we should be adding to rather than cutting their ranks.

Dan Reicher

The ambition of the mayor to get into the heart of the community is quite laudable. However, shutting off streets will do the exact opposite. If you have no way to get to Main Plaza, you have no reason to go there.

Char Miller

The decision was made to proceed speedily and appropriately to bring UU4 down, weighed against the alternative of shutting down multiple units, creating significant other risks.

Ronnie Chappell

We played really well. We made one mistake in the first half and it cost us. We missed an early penalty kick that could have made the game a little different. I have to give credit to Magnolia for finding the net and for shutting us out.

Johnny Gonzales

You could use this in a concert hall, allowing cell phones to work before the concert and during breaks, but shutting them down during the performance.

Michael Riedlinger

My goal is to play in the season, not Spring Training games. It would be nice to get out there and show them what I can do. But in the meantime I need to get myself ready for Opening Day and get out there playing, that's the biggest thing. I'm just resting right now, just doing all the rehab stuff, just kind of shutting baseball down a little bit.

Dustin Pedroia

We knew what they were going to bring, but the hard part was trying to take away what they wanted to do. Even when we got in transition, they did a good job of shutting us off when we got there.

Glenn Billings

Prices are high, but without those price increases we would not have seen the 20 percent decrease in industrial gas demand that has occurred over the past five years. One by one, industrial gas users are either shutting down or switching to substitute fuels.

Mark Hayes

The key to shutting down an offense is to shut down their receivers. If you shut down the passing game, their offense really doesn't have anything.

Justin Phinisee

The routes are kind of hard because you're burning more gas. You're going, stopping, going, stopping, shutting the car off, turn it on, which all impacts gas usage.

Beverly Griffith

When we cut the lead down to eight, we felt pretty lucky. Then they hit three quick baskets. That was kind of the door shutting on us.

Shane Meyer

You're just tricking the body with drugs, ... It's shutting the appetite off.

George Blackburn

They are shutting down that quarry. They have ceased operations there.

Jim Oliver

Our defense is capable of shutting people down. That's our bottom line, and that's what we have to count on (Wednesday) night and throughout this tournament.

Bill Olin

When we succeed at shutting auctions down on eBay, they go somewhere else.

Vance Lommen

We don't have a long record of going out here shutting businesses down unless we absolutely have to and most of it's complaint-driven and the public is going to let you know if a business is in bad shape and I think that was the case with this business.

Charles J. Givens

The choice was between shutting down service or delaying service, because the recovery operation would have blocked the yard, too. So we decided to wait until after the morning rush to do the job.

Marjorie Anders

We hadn't been playing defense the way I told them we were capable of, either. Just shutting teams down; I'm still trying to build that in this group.

James Jackson

After the first half we just wanted to keep on shutting them out. It was such an awesome feeling.

Tanuvasa Moe

We're pushing back against the criminals by aggressively shutting down the labs and making it harder for the crooks to get the supplies they use to cook this toxic drug, ... Now we must concentrate on fighting meth trafficking as well.

Roy Cooper

The most common mistake I would hear is people being excessively loud, and doing it with their door open so you could hear them all the way down the hall. Shutting your door kills a great deal of noise.

Fred Russell

We're filing two months' of cases in a week. Everyone is shutting down and not taking more appointments. It's not like anything you can even imagine.

Dan Hall

Private sector users have the same security and critical operations issues as government workers. Shutting down the RIM network for anyone seems like an extreme measure.

John Halamka

Shutting it down for a period of time allows us to assess where we are in our yards, make plans and go back to work in a manner that will keep the ports running efficiently.

Joseph Miniace

Our defense did a great job of shutting them down but our offense really helped our defense tonight because they (Gladstone) didn't have the ball.

Dan Flynn

The center of New Orleans is certainly not protection of farmland, so the factor of safety was incredibly low. We're talking about thousands of families without homes and shutting down a commercial infrastructure that's pretty darn important to the United States.

Robert Bea

The Fed is simply stopping at neutral; it's not shutting down a growth cycle. That's great for the market in 2006.

Bob Sitko

Yeah, I wanted to put that all behind me, ... I was shutting the book on all that stuff.

Jonathan Kaye

The utility companies are very good at not shutting people off during the winter, but we're seeing that people are going to be facing huge debt at the end of the winter.

Glenn Cooper

Coming into this game, No. 24, (Kenney) Griffin was averaging like 22 points in his last three games. I think we did a good job shutting him down.

Ray Staver

If there were something that were shutting down companies, of course it is vital that our company continues to run and produce vaccine.

Alison Marquiss

I think our team focus was much better this time. When they made a run, we stayed calm. And we did a lot better job of shutting them down inside.

Jeremy Clayton

He sounds surprisingly good, strong, like he had gotten some of his fight back. I think just shutting the engine down for a couple of days has helped him immensely.

Frank Keel

Prior to this they didn't have much flexibility; they were shutting down high cost assets, but didn't have the financial flexibility to do profitable projects like reducing energy costs.

Stephen Atkinson

We like going into an away stadium and establishing that as our home. Nothing's better than going into an away stadium and shutting up 80,000 people.

Joe Anoai

She's a great shooter, but she played great defense, too. She played the top of our triangle-and-two defense and was critical in shutting down their guards.

John Leighton

Raising profit thresholds are in line with the regulator's pledge to help good-quality companies raise capital and upgrade market fundamentals. Investors will be glad to see the market shutting its doors to poor performers.

Li Zhi

They did a great job shutting down Alexa.

Nathan Demar

We feel with the game plans Tim comes up with, we go into every game capable of shutting down any runner.

Osi Umenyiora

At this point in the season, it's the second half of conference play. The good thing about our group is we're motivated, we're playing good soccer, we've been shutting teams down and, like we've been doing all season, we're creating good chances.

Dan Tobias

We're shutting people down. We just can't put the ball in the end zone.

Dan Newbill

They stunt and blitz a lot, so it's a matter of shutting down some of those stunts up front. I think if we can stop some of the stunts there should be some holes to run in.

Dan Kreider

I've been working with these people for a long time and got to know them well. They announced that they were going to be shutting down operations and I saw it as a great opportunity.

William Hurley

This team has won a lot of games by scoring early. Our plan was not to let them score in the first 15 to 20 minutes. Our defense shutting them down took them out of their game plan.

Paul Grant

We're shutting down all delivery operations. When it's all buttoned up and put away, we'll be evacuating.

Mark Bugg

They (Hunter) did a pretty good job of shutting down our guards. So we just started passing it to the post and burned them with 16 points in the paint.

Bryan Davis

No strike is imminent. The only people talking about shutting down the ports are with the PMA.

Steve Stallone

But we did get the general sense that they were either shutting down, facing a major downsizing in operations, or being consolidated.

Dennis Andrulis

But we are absolutely not shutting our doors, ... Everybody's very willing to help.

Ann Bradshaw

It also has the effect of shutting down a service in a similar fashion to what occurred with Napster a couple of years ago and that has the potential to be good for record industry revenues.

Jarad Carleton

Brittany Lumsden did an outstanding job of shutting down their scorer Megan Foy. Overall it was a real gutsy performance by our team, going two goals down and then coming back against a good team for the win.

Jack Strong

The drug pipeline brought the problems of drug addiction, crime and violence from the busy streets of Detroit directly onto the quiet streets of Venango County, and today's arrests are aimed at shutting off that pipeline.

Tom Corbett

She might have been just a little bit frustrated. That's something that this school prides itself on, shutting down the big players.

Nicole Wolff

George really looked after me, ... After I left the band, I was completely isolated. It was like being on a very crowded street and then getting into a car and shutting the door. I was lonely, and he showed me so much warmth.

Geri Halliwell

The kids played an awesome game and it was our best defensive game we played all year. It was a great team effort in shutting down their high powered offense.

Aaron Wollam

If you knock out two to three refineries with a category 4 or a category 5, and you hit them head on, you'll feel the impact immediately, and it would a while before the markets calm down. The impact of this could be worse than Katrina in terms of shutting down refineries.

Phil Flynn

You have a company that cannot sell its power and customers who are going to have higher prices to pay. That's the price of shutting down the plant. I hope people are happy they can breathe better, but nothing comes cheaply in energy.

Daniele Seitz

It is going to take a team effort, not only worrying about shutting down Davenport but also containing those guards. We will have to work on that.

Sarah Marshall

It's a hard one to swallow, there is no easy way to put it. I thought our defense did a phenomenal job of shutting down Frey in the first half, but we ended up having trouble with their passing game.

Jim Mccarroll

Defense is our main focus. Our game is getting (defensive) stops and shutting people down and getting the win. Coach Doc talks about defense every day in practice, about how important it is. And we work on it every day.

Stefon Jackson

We are not shutting down all our projects while we wait for an answer.

Viktor Vekselberg

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

Graham Norton

Brewer did a great job of taking away our strength, which is our two inside kids. They did the best job so far this year of shutting those kids down.

Tom Hill

We had to go to our passing game tonight. They did a great job of shutting our running game down.

David Powell

Her kidneys are shutting down. They are doing this surgery to save the kidneys and give the doctors time to find out what is wrong.

Kelly Nichols

Everyone was talking about Moss, but we knew the real key to beating this team was shutting down Jordan. He gets more touches than anybody else, and if they were able to run the ball and control the clock that way, it would have made our job a lot harder.

Hollis Thomas

Shutting down a program like this really sends a bad message. It makes it look like Truman doesn't care about preschool education and we don't think it's important. And of course, we do.

Mary Shapiro

Don't wait until they are shutting off your heat. Apply early before you get into trouble.

Laura Willems

We have started shutting down our Texas City refinery this morning and expect it to be completely shut by later today.

Linda Casey

I don't believe in shutting down practices just to win meets. Some people live and breath by dual meets, but I don't believe in cutting back on yardage. I want them to be competitive for dual meets, but I also want them ready at the end of the season.

Dave Wharton

We had ample opportunity to score. But River Valley was almost perfect in the field, shutting down rally after rally with outstanding defensive effort.

Roy Nash

The Department of Justice is firmly committed to shutting down fraudulent trust schemes that cost the treasury and law-abiding taxpayers millions of dollars each year.

Eileen J. O'connor

We're not shutting the door on anyone.

Fred Young

We're confident right now that the secondary is gonna do a good job shutting down the pass. Having Jaren back feels good. He's a guy we have a lot of confidence in.

Eric Smith

In this league, you've gotta hang in there. You're going to face a good pitcher like that. We were just lucky to get a couple runs at the end. He got ahead of us, and was shutting us down. Maybe that's where some of the experience comes in; when one part of our team is down, another part rises a little bit.

Eric Kadooka

Tinkering with it is tantamount to shutting down the regulation, Are you indicating that there will be no cooperation from DHEC if we don't pass it?

Elizabeth Hagood

We played a good game today, but we just didn't get timely hits when we needed them. Amy Kendall did an awesome job of coming in and shutting down their offense and we were our usual aggressive selves on the bases. We played well, but it just didn't work out today.

Eileen Schmidt