Sentence examples for electricity failing from inspiring English sources

Trapped in the rear of a breached and sunken submarine on the Arctic seabed, the electricity failing, facing all-but-certain death with 22 companions, Lt. Capt.

In the 2004 BBC documentary "North Korea: A State of Mind," which followed two teenage gymnasts preparing for the Mass Games, one scene shows the electricity failing in a girl's Pyongyang apartment.

Electricity kept failing -- sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours -- throughout Saturday and Sunday in Seaside Heights, Ortley Beach, Lavallette and other towns on this slender barrier island on the Atlantic.

Can you imagine what it is to have schools all of a sudden completely overburdened, health systems unable to respond to huge demographic increases and water and electricity supplies failing dramatically?

The traveling beams of light suggest not only traffic but also searchlights; other effects evoke lightning or failing electricity.

The blackout built a solid consensus for mandatory technical standards to keep the electricity system from failing.

Most Kafkaesque of all, it prompts the question of what this slowly failing electricity source is actually supplying.

Sawsan wed Muaz when she was 16 in an arranged marriage, rushed because of bombings and failing electricity; a month later, they fled.

But few who witnessed the statue falling could have imagined the speed with which Iraqi opinions began to turn against the Americans as problems accumulated with failing electricity supplies, looting and lawlessness on the streets and lines outside gasoline stations that have stretched into days.

The city's auditor, Michael Eglinski, believes the power company in charge of streetlights there, Westar Energy, is overcharging Lawrence for electricity it provides, failing to meter precisely, and worse is using woefully inefficient bulbs deliberately to boost sales.

I keep everything.' " He has gone without electricity for years, after failing to resolve a billing dispute with Consolidated Edison.