Sentence examples for caused short from inspiring English sources

He said the dripping water sometimes caused short circuits in overhead wires, disrupting service.

At least six sewage plants in the New York region shut down completely during the storm, and many more were crippled by storm surges that swamped motors and caused short circuits in electrical equipment.

A blaze on the track in St Denis, near Gare du Nord on Monday threatened to add to problems, but a Eurostar spokesman said it had been dealt with and had only caused short delays – amounting to about 10 minutes – to trains entering and leaving Paris for a limited time.

He theorized that heavy multitasking made people worse at juggling tasks because it prompted them to have shorter attention spans — although his experiments did not prove whether heavy multitasking caused short attention spans or if people prone to multitasking had shorter attention spans to begin with.

The reason for these thick films is to prevent MWCNTs from protruding from the films, which could have caused short circuits in the DSSCs.

Tests showed that when the cell was overcharged to 3.789 V, the copolymer separator was oxidized and became electronically conducting, which caused short circuit formation and prevented the organic electrolyte from being oxidized.

Various troubles, from electrical shorts to brake malfunctions, have caused short-term failures.

Major labels largely phased out the sale of singles, however, in hopes that fans would buy an entire album -- a tactic that caused short-term gains and long-term resentment.

The build-up of troops may have caused short-term delays in aid deliveries, but will pay off if they quickly open transport routes without which nothing would reach the needy anyway.

PHILADELPHIA — Eighteen years after his last football game, Brad Quast has a stack of medical records describing the devastating effects of a brief career of very hard knocks: badly injured knees, the remnants of a serious neck injury sustained while playing in college and enough concussive damage to have caused short-term memory loss.

The probable impact of a bolide (either an asteroid or comet) and increased volcanism at the end of the Cretaceous (about 65.5 million years ago), though still the subject of hot debate, certainly could have caused short-term changes in the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere-hydrosphere.