Sentence examples for curtailment order from inspiring English sources

The effects of a curtailment order in this context are expressly political – the coalition is refusing to intervene to save the institution from bankruptcy because, unlike the universities that its own sons and daughters attend, London Met has become a target for the government's market experiment in higher education.

In a previous statement, irrigation district officials called the curtailment order "nothing short of catastrophic".

Board members and Grigsby are protesting to a number of state officials, and the MCSD is filing a letter with the State Water Resources Control Board protesting the curtailment order.

Right holders who fail to heed a curtailment order and continue drawing water are subject to fines of up to $1,000 a day and $2,500 per acre-foot of unlawfully diverted water.

The district released a statement Monday that accused the water board of retaliating against it for joining a handful of other water suppliers in suing the board when it issued the curtailment order.

A much smaller number of curtailment orders, 277, affected senior right holders -- those whose rights date to before 1914.

Of the 9,112 curtailment orders issued to senior and junior right holders this year, only 2,814 had generated responses, according to the water board.

The vast majority of curtailment orders issued have affected so-called junior right holders, or those entities whose legal claim to water dates back to 1914.

In what one spokesman described as a "disappointing" development, the State Water Resources Control Board released figures showing that 31% of affected water right holders had officially responded to their curtailment orders.

The board can fine water rights holders up to $1,000 a day and $2,500 per acre-foot of diverted water for violating curtailment orders.

That day, Eighth Army ordered curtailment of delivery by the Red Ball Express and increased use of the airlift to its maximum capacity.