Sentence examples for electricity failures from inspiring English sources

Electricity failures that leave houses cold and dark for days at a time.

"Sadly, anything since 1994 is considered current here," she wrote, adding that a dearth of computers and frequent electricity failures made online resources largely inaccessible.

Facing the prospect of broad electricity failures over the summer, Japan's leadership did not dare order more plants shut down, but it hardly needed to.

Two days of riots in Basra, spurred by miles-long gasoline lines and electricity failures, were quelled Monday after British troops distributed gasoline from their own reserves.

"Before, the airport looked like a farm, there were no paved roads and electricity failures were frequent," Mr. Kiknadze, the former tourism minister, said.

Sewage systems are backing up in many neighborhoods, sometimes filling streets with waste, in part because electricity failures prevent the sewage pumps from operating.

In her anger, she connected an old electric curling iron into a plug in her cabin, which caused an electricity failure throughout the vessel.

To make matters worse, Niger has recently suffered its worst electricity failure in years.

Police said there could still be pockets of methane in the mine, with the electricity failure complicating efforts to pump air inside.

During an eight-day, 530-mile train journey across southeastern Congo, there were two derailments, several dozen delays, one electricity failure and an ever increasing number of people and goods packed into crammed, stinking hallways, compartments and bathrooms.

I spent the last year reviewing Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and so on and found that neither they nor practically any of the 435 operating nuclear plants around the world are designed for safe shutdown in case of simultaneous external and internal electricity failure.