Sentence examples for blackout order from inspiring English sources

Despite the blackout order, the Garden Island floodlights remained on until 00 25 the next morning.

At around 20 00 on 22 September, Emden entered the port, which was completely illuminated, despite the blackout order.

No matter their exact origins, the blackout orders were not government-wide.

Canadian troops were massed at Fort Osborne barracks and the Minto and Macgregor armouries at 6 30 am, and at 7 am air-raid sirens were sounded and a blackout ordered in preparation for the invasion.

In Japan, consumers were also grappling with rolling blackouts ordered after damage to the reactors reduced the electricity supply in the greater Tokyo region.

This was evidence enough to get Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis to later float out the conspiracy theory that the NFL plotted the blackout in order to encourage a San Francisco comeback and thus ensure a closer game.

A 24-hour news blackout was ordered by the country's powerful journalists' union.

Such an emergency would have prompted rolling blackouts, in order for power administrators to keep the state's giant, overburdened electricity grid from crashing completely.

How do you think that makes you feel at Christmas?" The blackout test, ordered Sunday night by the civil defense authorities, darkened about half the city for a short period just after 9 P.M. local time.

ESPN needs to be subject to regional blackouts in order to fulfill various contractual obligations.

We have no further comment to make". On Thursday night last week, Egypt's government instituted a nationwide digital blackout by ordering its telecom firms to shut off their networks.