Sentence examples for events were called off from inspiring English sources

Thousands of people lost power, flights were canceled and sports events were called off as more than 2ft of snow settled in parts of the region.

Several sporting events were called off after last week's attacks in Paris, and Edinburgh are away to Agen on Friday.

Sadiq Khan and other senior politicians have pleaded for a change of tone in the EU referendum debate, as dozens more weekend campaign events were called off.

But opposition turned into a roar by Friday, and the event was called off, leaving thousands of runners all dressed up, from sneakers to sweatbands, with no race to run.

The second day of last year's event was called off because of torrential rain.

The event was called off last year because of wet weather but this time is set to see all six members of GB's 2013 European Championships team - Cook, William Fox-Pitt, Piggy French, Tom McEwen, Izzy Taylor and Lucy Wiegersma - taking part.

Yiannopoulos, an editor at Breitbart, had been invited to speak at the university by the Berkeley College Republicans, but Wednesday's event was called off after protests against him turned violent.

All weekend sports events in Ireland were called off yesterday and Irish trainers pulled their horses out of the prestigious Cheltenham Festival in England because of the fast spreading outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

Attendance figures have been high, and it is possible crowds are up because other events such as the Great Yorkshire Show were called off because of earlier torrential rain.

There were conflicting reports about whether meetings of Israeli and Palestinian negotiators scheduled for Monday were called off by the Palestinians because of the events in Qalandia.

On the second day of the induced-seismicity conference, there was an industry panel scheduled, but, at the last minute, most of the participants cancelled, and the event was called off.