Sentence examples for cut off utilities from inspiring English sources

They frequently low-ball home-purchase offers, cut off utilities and even hire gangs of thugs to terrorize homeowners.

The city has cordoned off streets surrounding the hall and cut off utilities to the area for safety reasons, making it impossible for audience members, performers and anybody else to enter.

The council will also not be able to cut off utilities to the site, something that had concerned residents, who argued that the lives of sick people on the site could be endangered.

Government offices can close for a day or two or hold off the hordes trying to cut off utilities.

Many landlords cut off utilities to drive out tenants so they could burn down homes and collect insurance payouts.

In the immediate aftermath of the 1967 War, the military governor of Gaza threatened to dismiss the municipal council and cut off utility services if the local leadership was unable to force the residents of the city to turn in their weapons.

When customers use fewer kilowatt-hours either through efficiency or distributed generation, it cuts off utilities' source of revenue and the way they fund up-keep of power lines, substations, and other equipment.

Mr. Gayhardt said the industry had prospered because more people worked in modestly paying service-sector jobs, and in a pinch they found payday loans cheaper and more convenient than bouncing checks, paying late fees on credit cards or having their utilities cut off.

HONG KONG — The utilities are cut off.

In other 203(k) brownstones in Harlem and Washington Heights, tenants also reported that their utilities were cut off.

Mr. Luo's home still had electricity and water, unlike other nail houses whose owners usually relent when their utilities are cut off.