Sentence examples for as a blackout from inspiring English sources

Among the risers, Aviva has added 12p to 567p as a blackout on much broker research while its purchase of Friends Life was completed came to an end.

As if last year's Northeast blackout was not enough practice, Long Islanders are being asked to cut back on electricity three hours next Thursday as a blackout drill.

"I became what's known as a blackout drinker, either passing out after a few drinks or just not remembering what happened," she said.

Here some other memorable blackouts, listed in chronological order: Canada and northeastern United States, 1965: Toronto and New York were plunged into darkness as a blackout strikes Ontario and the northeastern United States, affecting 30 million people.

In a country as transparent as a blackout curtain, the drug dealers' homes ultimately provided a reality check — a rare window into the illicit and personal world of Mexico's criminal culture.

At one survivor's home in Villa Riva, a family friend said she was almost as afraid now of the possibility of reprisals as she had been when she awaited news while the boat was lost at sea. "We don't know what happened on that boat; I don't know if the survivors even know exactly what happened," she said, giving only her first name, Adalgisa, as a blackout shut off electricity in the home.

The plot – involving a murder, three women's intertwining love lives and some unfeasible train-window voyeurism – is pretty ridiculous, but Emily Blunt's committed turn as a blackout-prone alcoholic holds it together.

The agency also has protocols for dealing with a total system shutdown, as in a blackout.

On the subways, many people appear to be as shut down as elevators in a blackout.

Will the prolonged Halloween power outage be remembered as a "good blackout" or a "bad blackout"?

One minute I was not even thinking about crystals, and the next, as though in a blackout, I found myself standing in the middle of a pricey metaphysical shop in Santa Monica.