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It was the cannon which announced the closing of the port.

The closing of the port and the uncertainty of finding alternate routes has had a domino effect.

Not to mention warships of His Majesty's fleet to enforce the closing of the port.

"At present, there is no impact to Giant" from the temporary closing of the ports, Mr. Sheu said.

King George III reacted to the "tea party" by ordering the closing of the port of Boston.

The closing of the ports came at a particularly awkward time for Mattel, which has waged a slow but steady turnaround under the chief executive, Robert A. Eckert.

With the closing of the port at Sihanoukville to Communist shipping in August 1969, attempted North Vietnamese trawler traffic into South Vietnam resumed.

The threatened closing of the port of Churchill, which in the short three-month shipping season sends Manitoba and Saskatchewan grain to Europe, would be another heavy blow.

The temporary closing of the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the reduced schedule of buses in and out of the terminal had cost $9 million in ticket and retail sales.

Having aided in the closing of the port of Wilmington, North Carolina, the South's last important link in the overseas supply lifeline, Monadnock turned toward Charleston, South Carolina.

In 1774, the committees of correspondence that had sprung up throughout the colonies were being drawn to the support of Boston, as they reacted to the closing of the port and increase of the occupying military force.

But New Jersey Transit suspended all bus service into the city during the closing of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, N.J. Transit trains, however, honored bus passes and continued running.

The reserve has another problem not related to its size: it may not be well set up for supply interruptions like the most recent one, the closing of the Port of Valdez after the Exxon Valdez ran aground.

At this time last year, prices had peaked, in part because of the temporary closing of the port of Valdez, Alaska, at the terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, after the Exxon Valdez spill in March.

In 1774 revolution was at Virginia's doorstep when Royal Governor Lord Dunmore dissolved the Virginia House of Burgesses because of their support of the city of Boston against the closing of the Port of Boston by Lord North.

The export of cloth continued to increase from the 14th century onwards, and after the closing of the port of Calais (which consumed much of the raw wool) by the Spanish in the late 16th century, cloth became the primary type of wool exported.

The flow of world trade has been disrupted and slowed with the closing of the port of Kobe, which before the earthquake on Tuesday was not only the largest container port in Japan but also a hub for the movement of goods to other parts of the Far East.

International 3-6 WORLD TRADE DISRUPTED The closing of the port of Kobe after the earthquake this week has disrupted world trade in a domino effect, with some American companies worried about keeping their assembly lines going.

When news of the closing of the port of Boston reached the Chesapeake Bay port of Chester Town, (now Chestertown) on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the spring of 1774, town leaders called a meeting to discuss what actions should be taken.

Also in May 1774, Nicholas introduced a motion written by Thomas Jefferson making June 1 a "day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer" to express sympathy of Virginia for their sister colony of Massachusetts as a result of the closing of the Port of Boston by the British.