Sentence examples for blackout looms from inspiring English sources

When a blackout looms, utilities call a small coterie of demand-response firms.

As another television programming blackout looms, this time because of a high-stakes negotiation between the CBS Corporation and Time Warner Cable, there is a new wrinkle, courtesy of Aereo, the start-up that streams broadcast TV via the Internet.

Often, when the possibility of a blackout looms, teams and/or sponsors have bought the remaining unsold tickets for 34 cents on the dollar.

Because the Cardinals were having trouble selling out their home field — University of Phoenix Stadium, with a seating capacity of about 65,000 — a local blackout loomed.

New York State is moving to expand the use of such diesel generators when brownouts or blackouts loom.

As the threat of blackouts loomed, demands for action rose from officials of both parties and from consumers in the West.

The stakes are especially high for Fox because another potential blackout is looming.

A spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) denied blackouts were looming.

Prices have been skyrocketing this year because of severe shortages, and the system has been barely fending off rolling blackouts, which loomed here again this afternoon.

6 30 p.m. | Updated | Representatives for DirecTV and News Corporation said Monday evening that they had averted a looming blackout of regional sports networks, FX and other Fox-owned cable channels.

It's report-card season, and this is what the grades for California's three-year-old experiment in power deregulation look like: soaring rates; huge shortages and looming blackouts; and more than $7 billion in losses for utilities.