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  • Instead of hosting the company delegation at the prefectural offices, the governor invited them to his walled-off official residence a short distance away, later explaining he did so because the meeting was so early.

    Scandal Taints Japan Nuclear Sector Chester Dawson 2011

  • Flash forward to when the teenage son of the Boneshaker's deceased inventor seeks to right his father's wrong and infiltrate a walled-off Seattle.

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

  • He was quite serious when he told me that black people could, if they got organized, take over a couple of states and create a walled-off homeland.

    Daniel Cubias: Is Tribalism on the Increase? Daniel Cubias 2011

  • Now Sunnis and Shia stick to their separate, walled-off neighbourhoods, the Shia death squads have become government forces and the Sunnis are calling for federalism, which is opposed staunchly by Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister.

    Corruption in Iraq: 'Your son is being tortured. He will die if you don't pay' 2012

  • Shanghai was shaped when throngs of British merchants, French missionaries, American settlers and Jewish immigrants trickled in and set up their own neighborhoods, effectively forcing the native Chinese into the walled-off enclave of Old City.

    The Bling Dynasty 2010

  • Since the mass shooting three years ago at Virginia Tech that left 32 dead, schools have beefed up mobile notification systems, staged drills with local law enforcement agencies, installed additional security cameras and honed their threat assessment systems – all while trying to avoid becoming walled-off compounds.

    Gunfire At UT Highlights Colleges' Response The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The island's greatest beauty, however, may be its lack of all-inclusive artifice—Martinique has none of the walled-off resorts that keep travelers inured to local life.

    Take Monday Off: Martinique Chris Nuttall-Smith 2011

  • A steampunk novel, set in an alternate 1880 where Seattle has been devastated by a mysterious gas which turns people into zombies; the wife and son of the inventor who caused the catastrophe 16 years before venture into the walled-off city to find The Truth.

    So, that coalition then loveandgarbage 2010

  • The reforms are having a global impact, allowing traders in London and New York to buy and sell what was until recently an isolated, walled-off currency.

    Time for Next Move on Yuan Liberalization Peter Stein 2011

  • Developers can cut streets through formerly walled-off corporate campuses and add restaurants, stores and public spaces.

    How SoHo Can Save the Suburbs Richard Florida 2010

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