Sentence examples for create a blackout from inspiring English sources
The authorities said that rioters had attacked and destroyed equipment belonging to a local online provider, but activists say it was a deliberate act by the government to create a blackout on events in Sudan.
For the Nets' first-round playoff series against the Chicago Bulls, the arena will grow even darker, with the team distributing black T-shirts to fans in hopes of creating a "blackout" in the crowd.
"It's very clear that they are trying to create a media blackout," she said.
Extreme Behavior Adameve.com Dir: Toni English Rating: 7 If I was writing this a few years ago I'd tell you my extreme behavior consisted of mass amounts of pharmaceuticals crushed up and snorted off scandalous girls' ass cheeks, mixed with whiskey and wine to create a constant blackout.
But the strike included journalists, effectively creating a media blackout that kept Greeks in the dark about any progress.
In April , 2002 in the midst of the most intense period of confrontation between the opposition and the government, media barons actively supported a coup against Chávez by creating a media blackout.
Dunston power station could not take the extra load and it also shut down, creating a total blackout on Tyneside.
The government was so shaken that it ordered a news blackout of "images that create a feeling of panic".
When full deregulation began in 2002, state officials insisted that Texas could create a smarter system than California, whose deregulation effort had failed a year earlier amid intermittent blackouts.
Turkish authorities ordered a media blackout on images that showed the moment of the blasts, gruesome or bloody pictures or "images that create a feeling of panic".
Members of the U.S. Congress have at times raised the idea of giving the president the legal authority to create an Internet "kill switch" -- the power to order ISPs to disconnect certain websites, stop the flow of information from certain countries or even create an internet service blackout.
