shut somebody out from something

If Africa is shut out from these investment decisions, it will fall even further behind.

Families and friends have a sense of being shut out from someone they once knew so well.

"V.92 will bring choice without people needing a second phone line or feeling they are shut out from the rest of the world," he added.

Outside of work, however, Peter shuts himself out from his family and doesn't contact them.

I was not shut out from all intercourse of humanity.

The center would shut out the view from all the windows on the western side.

Once more he rolled himself into a ball and tried to shut out the thoughts from his mind to sleep.

Most low- and moderate-income people feel shut out from the legal system.

"I was just flat shut out from my own President."

The door closed and shut the crowd out from him.