"close" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He pointed out that Congress must appropriate money each year to close bases.
- Congress has often found it difficult to close bases without some outside impetus.
- Others warned that they would block any effort to close more bases.
- But with the military trying to close more bases around the country, even that benefit was disappearing.
- He takes pride in having worked with Democrats on some issues - for example, to close military bases no longer considered essential to national security.
- The list prepared this month calls for closing only 33 major bases and cutting back another 29.
- The Pentagon says closing 97 bases in 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1995 saved the government $15.5 billion.
- The commission would be loosely modeled on the one set up several years ago to close military bases.
- And with the Pentagon continuing to close bases, the local economy will be squeezed for years.
- It takes time to close bases and production lines.
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