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If this sounds like too nice a distinction, consider common usage: factories shut down rather than shutting up; conversely, your rude brother may ask you to shut up, not shut down.
When the film begins, in the early '30s, he (played by Tim Roth) is a white Prohibition beer baron who has muscled his way into the neighborhood numbers racket, shutting down competitors or forcing them to join his operation.
4. For generators' shutting down, see Port Authority briefing (May 13, 2004).
With America shutting down for the long weekend, overseas news dominates the papers that are still working.
Depletion of amino acids as opposed to other nutrients such as glucose and vitamins was shown to be responsible for shutting down growth and cell division and initiating the developmental program [ 19 20 21 ] . Although substantial progress on the regulation of the initiation of development in Dictyostelium has been made [ 15 16 17 18 ] , how the cells sense starvation and in particular amino acid deprivation is unknown.