Publicly, Airbus managers have closed ranks behind the CEO's plans.
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Another profession has closed ranks around a few bad actors.
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But the regime closed ranks, and its security forces stayed loyal.
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Three students' college plans were soon derailed, and a community closed ranks.
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Top Republicans closed ranks around Trump despite believing him fundamentally unfit for office.
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Lately, African Americans have closed ranks to rid their communities of sexual predators.
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In the end, however, EU negotiators closed ranks to avoid a Cypriot veto.
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Gavin Newsom, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti -- quickly closed ranks around her.
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Once he won, the GOP closed ranks around him in a remarkable way.
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But in the days since the accusation became public, Democrats have closed ranks.
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Fox News hosts including Sean Hannity have closed ranks around the White House.
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When it came time to vote, Republicans mostly closed ranks — with one notable exception.
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But they closed ranks in 2012 after the Muslim Brotherhood was voted into office.
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Neither was very successful as the old order closed ranks to frustrate their ambitions.
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GOP leadership has already closed ranks to punish members who won't fall into line.
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He was defined by grief, not by politics, and the institution closed ranks around him.
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Fox News ended its brief feud with the Republican nominee and closed ranks around his campaign.
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But his party quickly closed ranks and defeated a motion by opposition lawmakers to impeach him.
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In the past, the French establishment has closed ranks to protect domestic champions from unwanted foreign intruders.
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As with Kalanick, they closed ranks convincingly enough to persuade Neumann to step down as chief executive.
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House Republicans, though, have closed ranks around the president, defending his conduct with a variety of justifications.
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During a year of climate confrontation, the world has closed ranks around the Paris deal struck in 2015.
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The ruling party closed ranks and defeated the vote, dragging the currency to its weakest since July 12.
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European leaders have closed ranks round the indivisibility of the four freedoms – in goods, services, capital and people.
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National and provincial officials, even those who have criticized Mr. Zuma's conduct, have closed ranks behind the president.
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Despite their hesitation and reservations, most Republican leaders closed ranks behind Trump, creating the image of a unified party.
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As normally happens when any outsider accuses anyone in the Venezuelan regime of wrongdoing, the country's leaders have closed ranks.
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But perhaps 500 grandchildren were among the disappeared; the Abuelas were up against government policy, as well as closed ranks.
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In Jordan's case, Republicans have largely closed ranks and refused to admit maybe Jordan messed up as a young man.
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Regeni's family has closed ranks, appointing a pugnacious lawyer as its gatekeeper, and begun their own investigation into his murder.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell – usually the target of NFL fans and athletes' ire – closed ranks with the owners and players.
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Twice this month they have forced votes to demand the returns' release, but Republicans have closed ranks around the president.
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The DA's victim services team was in contact with the police department, a department that closed ranks around the family.
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House conservatives closed ranks around the American Health Care Act, after GOP leaders agreed to make it meaningfully more regressive; 2.
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He criticizes her wardrobe choices, her career as an actress, her insurgent presence within the closed ranks of the royal family.
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Donald Trump finally made some bold and provocative claims that were largely true, and the Republican Party finally closed ranks to attack him.
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The two, however, do not have enough seats to bring down the government, whose left-wing allies closed ranks around it on Wednesday.
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As the later travails of Diana showed, nothing can be more self-righteous, unfeeling and immovable than an establishment that has closed ranks.
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But at almost every turn, they slammed into state leaders who closed ranks around a candidate who many once said they'd never support.
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"The elite legal class has closed ranks around Gorsuch and this is just the latest example," said Nan Aron, President of Alliance for Justice.
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White trans women radicals, meanwhile, by and large, closed ranks around her, insisting she had done nothing wrong and was, rather, a tactical genius.
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Grassroots organizers, embittered City Council members, newly elected members of the Democratic state Senate, and Ocasio-Cortez herself all closed ranks against the plan.
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At the time, her male colleagues praised her quick thinking, but they soon after closed ranks against her, excluding her from meetings and briefings.
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The party closed ranks after a bitter primary in December, when Mr Abdo Benítez defeated Santiago Peña, the dauphin of the outgoing president, Horacio Cartes.
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The president, already besieged by leaks, has closed ranks around the Oval Office, growing far more suspicious of staff and trusting fewer West Wing personnel.
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But Tyma's neighborhood closed ranks around her: They divvied up her belongings for storage, and the rest were housed at Pasco County's Boys & Girls Club.
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With world oil prices spiking, Russian and Saudi officials closed ranks at the OPEC meeting, declaring a willingness to stabilize oil prices by increasing supply.
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His conservative party, The Republicans, closed ranks behind him on Monday after a tense weekend in which some members had called for him to step down.
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They portray Jennifer and Sarah as adoptive mothers under increasing strain, who fled at signs of trouble and closed ranks around their children as scrutiny intensified.
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Most of the GOP's other power brokers have closed ranks around Nunes even as evidence of his shady interactions with the White House continues to pile up.
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At the end of the first season, the women closed ranks, telling themselves a story about Perry's death that enabled them to grasp order in their lives.
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Moore denied misconduct, many leading conservative media figures closed ranks behind him, President Trump reiterated his endorsement of him, and Moore held a narrow lead in the polls.
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As PiS has intensified its assault on democratic institutions such as the courts, the once-welcoming liberal art world has closed ranks against everything the party stands for.
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Democrats have closed ranks around Clinton as their presumptive nominee, with a slew of top party figures throwing their support behind Clinton, including Vice President Biden and Sen.
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Instead, the leaders of the European Union closed ranks around the Spanish government in condemning Mr. Puigdemont and his fellow separatists for threatening Spain's constitutional and territorial stability.
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The clerical establishment has closed ranks with the ruling Al Saud family, with the Council of Senior Religious Scholars tweeting support on Sunday for regulations that "preserve Islamic values".
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The rest of the Ivy League has closed ranks behind Harvard, filing a joint amicus brief, and universities across the nation are watching intently for a ruling with wide-ranging impacts.
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For all the intraparty rancor and "Never-Trumpism" during the campaign, Republicans appear to have closed ranks on Capitol Hill to protect their unusual president and his cabinet choices, for now.
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But I felt a sense of deepened dread as I watched the Republican reaction: Faced with undeniable evidence of Trump's thuggishness, his party closed ranks around him more tightly than ever.
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Alternative for Germany, a far-right party, has stoked public anxiety over the 2015 arrival of more than a million, mostly Muslim, refugees and closed ranks with neo-Nazis during street protests.
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The group closed ranks and stopped talking to the press after the infamous Monas incident (more on that later), concerning themselves with the "purification," instead of spreading their beliefs in the press.
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" Later, Jefferson González, a young member of Longa's colectivo , told me that most chavistas had closed ranks with Maduro: "People might have their complaints, but we wash our dirty laundry in private.
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Its governing partner, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, has mostly closed ranks on the migration issue, and dismissed the recent incidents as a conspiracy by the establishment media against the government.
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While Washington prepares to reimpose economic sanctions on Tehran after pulling out of the nuclear deal, Iran's faction-ridden religious and political elites have closed ranks against Trump's hawkish approach to Tehran.
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Perhaps the tensest moment in Saturday's Republican presidential debate came when Donald Trump finally said something so outrageous that the other candidates onstage and even the debate audience closed ranks against him.
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But this play is also about the confusion of coming of age, the closed ranks of a longtime unit and the awkward loneliness of being an outsider trying to find a way in.
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His former employers, Japan's Nissan and France's Renault , initially appeared to be at odds over his case when he was first arrested in November, but now seem to have closed ranks against him.
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His former employers, Japan's Nissan and France's Renault, initially appeared to be at odds over his case when he was first arrested in November, but now seem to have closed ranks against him.
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The PP has closed ranks behind Rajoy, who said on Friday he intended to serve out his four-year term and that the corruption convictions did not affect a single member of his government.
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Instead of lining up behind Corker and Flake, the party's leaders on Capitol Hill closed ranks, desperate to preserve hopes of the tax reform that Trump and establishment lawmakers badly need, despite their mutual antipathy.
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In recent days, as opposition parties and a few high-ranking A.N.C. members called for Mr. Zuma to resign, the ruling party's top leaders and power brokers from its rural strongholds closed ranks behind him.
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JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress in South Africa closed ranks on Wednesday behind President Jacob Zuma, who has faced growing criticism and calls for his resignation after firing a widely respected finance minister last week.
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But the family closed ranks on Thursday after Volkswagen presented a strategy plan supposed to turn the company into a leader in electric vehicles and new forms of mobility such as ride-hailing and car-sharing.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian lawmakers on Wednesday night closed ranks to shield President Michel Temer from standing trial on obstruction of justice and corruption charges, sparing him in the second such case in just two months.
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"This is becoming, as our fighters say, the second Airport," said Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the separatist Vostok battalion, writing in a recent blog post — a rare insight into the often-closed ranks of separatist forces.
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The rest of the Ivy League closed ranks behind Harvard on Monday, defending the practice of including the race of applicants in the admissions process in the face of a lawsuit aimed at striking down Harvard's system.
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The defendant is Harvard, but other elite universities, including the rest of the Ivy League schools, have closed ranks in support, filing a joint brief saying that a ruling against Harvard would hurt diversity efforts across academia.
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Still, given how thoroughly Facebook has closed ranks since this scandal started, it's very difficult to get hard data on the actual people currently working on the trending team (Facebook did not reply to a request for comment).
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The establishment closed ranks, and as is now the case with the Grenfell fire there were elements of the media willing to aid them in that endeavour, even if a headline like 'The Truth' might not fly today.
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Men have stripped women down to reproductive function and toil, and then, when confronted with the fact that some of their number had drugged women with spray meant for animals and raped them for years, they closed ranks.
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But Romney, like Kerry, had held steady in the top tier and, after he won Florida in late January and secured most of the available delegates in February and March, his opponents dropped out and Republicans closed ranks.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's government closed ranks around Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Monday and accused conservative opponents of fanning allegations that his office sought to alter a report into policing on the night of the deadly Nice attack.
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Mr. Fillon experienced a slight reprieve last week, when one of his main rivals on the center-right announced that he would not challenge Mr. Fillon's candidacy, and the Republicans closed ranks and agreed to continue backing him.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Iranians quickly closed ranks against a hawkish new U.S. approach to Tehran, but Iran's powerful hardliners are set to exploit the latest dispute with Washington to weaken domestic rivals who are open to the West, analysts and insiders say.
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That decision followed a day in which Republicans mostly closed ranks around Mr. Sessions, a well-liked former Senate colleague, amid revelations that he spoke with the Russian ambassador last year, seemingly contradicting testimony from his confirmation hearing in January.
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Congressional Republicans have largely closed ranks around Trump even as the Democrats begin their inquiry and as the White House released a memorandum on Wednesday of Trump's call with the Ukrainian president in which Trump asks him to look into Biden.
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Washington (CNN)Brett Kavanaugh is set to become the Supreme Court justice who inaugurates a conservative majority for a generation, after wavering Republicans closed ranks to give him sufficient votes for confirmation in a historic victory for President Donald Trump.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's African National Congress "closed ranks" around President Jacob Zuma after two key allies of the ruling party called for his resignation following a cabinet reshuffle that cost the country one of its investment-grade credit ratings.
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In the case of Ronell, a renowned intellectual who is not a #MeToo spokesperson, her allies in academia—including feminist luminaries like Jack Halberstam, Judith Butler, Chris Kraus, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak—have closed ranks around her and sought to discredit her accuser.
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But I prefer to think the family matriarchy saved me, that my beloved elders closed ranks around me, my mother and mother-in-law on one flank, my grandmother and great-grandmother on the other, to shore me up and give me strength.
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Member states closed ranks when Trump withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement and UNESCO, but several of them abstained from a vote in the UN General Assembly condemning the unilateral decision by the US to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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It was, just as important, an occasion for solidarity across the media industry: Other union shops—within the Writers Guild of America and NewsGuild, the two big journalism unions—and freelancers closed ranks to prevent Vox management from paying freelancers to populate their now-stagnant platforms.
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This likewise helps explain why some police unions — also a group with a social identity — have closed ranks in response to protests against police violence and attacks on officers like last week's in Dallas and the killing of two New York City police officers in 2014.
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The spat has squeezed Trump between Senate GOP leaders who have closed ranks behind Loeffler and Collins' allies who argue that the Georgia congressman helped lead the fight against the President's impeachment in the House and would be a loyal warrior for Trump in the Senate.
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The action is the latest mass teacher protest in a year when educators have closed ranks in places where organized labor has historically been weak — first in six conservative or swing states where teachers walked out of classrooms, and now in the charter school sector, where unionization is sparse.
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And to a striking degree in a state where Mr. Trump won 62 percent of the vote last fall, Republicans and Democrats alike have closed ranks around Mr. Sessions, who was the state attorney general before he won a Senate seat four times and joined the president's cabinet.
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The White House has closed ranks around the president, with press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and senior counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Florida first lady to miss Women for Trump event due to planned execution Trump adopts familiar mantra on possible recession: fake news MORE both defending his remarks.
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Though the White House has largely stood by as senior national security and State Department officials have defied orders and provided damaging, closed-door testimony against Trump, this week those in Trump's inner circle closed ranks around their boss and left Democrats looking ahead to the highly anticipated public phase of impeachment, which could begin as soon as next week.
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Many unions fear Sanders is not electable and have closed ranks around Clinton, though Sanders contends he has a better chance of defeating GOP presidential frontrunner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE in the general election.
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As Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE descended on Washington, D.C., last week to bask in his party's embrace as presumptive presidential nominee, many Republicans closed ranks to support him and openly dismissed the outliers still searching for a third-party candidate.
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In writing "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee" (2006), Charles J. Shields maintained that he had conducted 20173 interviews with friends, acquaintances and former classmates of his subject, but Ms. Lee eluded him, turning down his requests for an interview "with vigor," he said Although reporters imagined a Southern Miss Havisham, Ms. Lee lived a quiet but relatively normal life in Monroeville, where friends and neighbors closed ranks around her to fend off unwelcome attention by tourists and reporters.
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