Sentence examples for canceled major from inspiring English sources

While some flights were canceled, major airports led by that in Madrid were also functioning Thursday.

Production of construction supplies fell by 14percentt from last year as developers canceled major projects and stopped building homes, and manufacturing tumbled 9.9percentt.

While A.I.G. is the first company that is known to have canceled major work with Goldman, European officials and some local officials in the United States have also said they are reconsidering their relationships with the bank.

In an interview at Mobile World Congress this week, Robert Topol, the chipmaker's GM of 5G Business and Technology, admitted that Intel canceled major pieces of its mobile roadmap in part due to being  "late for LTE".

In addition, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has proposed canceling major defense acquisition programs that have been plagued with cost and schedule problems.

Although he was director of the band, he said, he lacked the authority to suspend or expel students from the university or cancel major marching events, the sort of harsher punishment that he said he had sought over the years.

Though the war on terrorism has strengthened Mr. Rumsfeld's standing in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, efforts to cut or cancel major weapons programs will encounter strong opposition in both places.

After the briefest of consultations, they decided to cancel major convention events Monday, realizing the political cost of proceeding with the pageantry of a convention as a potentially lethal storm landed on shore.

All Saturday's sports events in the French capital were cancelled, major shops, department stores, museums and tourist sites – including the Louvre, Eiffel Tower and Disneyland – stayed closed, and several metro stations were also shut.

Russia has announced that it will impose import sanctions on Turkey and cancel major investment projects as the spat between the two countries over the downed Su-24 fighter jet continues.

Rihanna joins several high-profile performers who have cancelled major concerts for health reasons this year, among them Adele, who is undergoing surgery to repair bleeding in her vocal chords, Taylor Swift, who had a bout of laryngitis, and Caleb Followill, the lead singer for Kings of Leon, who cancelled half his band's tour to rest his voice.