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Example sentences for: locking

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Livingston, the paper notes in a sidebar to its lead, isn't locking up the nomination because of his ideology, policy or personal style.
PCR was originally defined as the weighted average of phase locking ratios according to the frequency of the hourly predominance of binary phase locking patterns [ 20 ] . Thus the interpretation of PCR is different but the calculus is still the same.
Irons is the upper-class English poet priss, locking liquid eyes on his co-stars and gravely over-enunciating.
313 (2001); FAA regulations,"Closing and locking of flight crew compartment door," 14 C.F.R.
The main arguments for expansion , from the U.S. point of view, are: 1) This is an opportunity to consolidate the Cold War victory by locking in the allegiance of newly democratic nations and ensuring their stability; 2) This is an insurance policy against a potentially resurgent Russia; and 3) This guarantees a continuing leadership role for the United States in Europe, even as Europe creates and strengthens its own institutions of unity.