Sentence examples for had stopped operating from inspiring English sources

He bought his quarry in 1938; it had stopped operating as concrete replaced bluestone as the chosen material for sidewalks.

Earlier, news reports had quoted employees from Trapil, the company which supplies the airports, as saying that pipelines carrying jet fuel to the Paris airports had stopped operating Friday because of industrial action.

The German company announced last week that it had stopped operating not just out of Sendai, which is near the epicenter of the quake, but also from Tokyo and Yokohama, which are more than 200 kilometers south of the damaged power plant.

There were also concerns about a possible shortage of jet fuel at the main Paris airports after news reports had quoted Trapil, a supply company, as saying that pipelines carrying jet fuel to the airports had stopped operating because of industrial action.

Abu Khattala told me that, after Qaddafi's fall, the group had stopped operating under the name of Abu Ubaida bin Jarrah, but it still existed as his own network — "It was there before the revolution, and it is there now" — but he refused to give further details or its new name.

By 2010, most of the projects had stopped operating due to difficulty in marketing guanaco, the decrease in market price to USD $40-60 per kilo and the relative increase in sheeperool price.

BabyPressConference has stopped operating, and Greater New York has transferred some of its assets to another Internet-related operation.

The company has stopped operating, though whether the shutdown will be permanent remains to be seen.

"We have stopped operating under the name of al-Nusra Front and formed a new body..

In a small number of documented cases, jet engines have stopped operating after airliners have flown through volcanic clouds.

PDVSA is months behind with payments to its suppliers, and some drilling rigs have stopped operating as a result.