Sentence examples for has kept plants from inspiring English sources

The Big Three want to close plants, but the last contract had an outright ban on closings, so G.M. started a price war that has kept plants running but sapped Big Three profits and done nothing to stem declines in market share.

The subsequent legal maneuvering has kept the plant dark for nearly two years.

That capability has kept the plant busy as workers assemble blades and nacelles for the recently announced Blackspring Ridge project in Alberta -- the largest wind farm in western Canada with 166 turbines, as well as a 42-turbine order from Uruguay announced in January and a 47-turbine project announced in May, bound for Mexico.

This year the rains were more abundant; even so the national-grid operator has kept the thermal plants on right through the rainy season.

Ample labor at competitive cost made Louisville a manufacturing center, led by Ford, which has kept big assembly plants open here since 1916.

Japan posted a record deficit in its current account — the broadest measure of imports versus exports — of 437 billion yen ($5.4 billion) in January, the Finance Ministry said Thursday, as energy imports surged after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, which has kept nuclear power plants shuttered across the country.

But so far Ineos has kept the generating plant open.

Meanwhile, Senator Shelby of Alabama, whose home state has Toyota, Honda, Mercedes and Hyundai plants, has kept up his pressure.

Even the company that I did battle with on the coal plants has kept their commitment on wind because, quite frankly, they see it as an economic incentive that folks are eager for.

Rain has kept some farmers from planting corn early, or even doing repairs and other farm chores.

Instead, he has kept one foot firmly planted in the camp of those who regard the market's performance as rational.