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Example sentences for: locking

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He shared Clarke's obsession with terrorism, and had little hesitation about locking horns with the regional bureaus.
The Clinton administration deemed the talks a success, saying 1) no one expected a breakthrough in the first round; and 2) the unprecedented discussion of substantive issues was a breakthrough . Skeptics said the progress was minimal and questioned whether the "well-rehearsed technique of locking Israel and its adversaries in a negotiating arena, cut off from other distractions, still works as well as it once did."
Clinton said that, if elected, he'd withdraw all trade privileges from China "as long as they're locking people up."
Irons is the upper-class English poet priss, locking liquid eyes on his co-stars and gravely over-enunciating.
But by locking the critics out, knowing this would be widely publicized, Warner Bros. was essentially announcing to the world that The Avengers was a dog.