Sentence examples for looming shutdown from inspiring English sources

The looming shutdown is "the best birthday present," he said.

She said her party should not fear the looming shutdown.

Maybe one effect of the looming shutdown will be to spark renewed interest in D.C. rights.

President Obama has warned that the looming shutdown could stall the already fragile economic recovery by choking off much-needed paychecks to workers and introducing another level of uncertainty in an already uncertain world.

WASHINGTON -- At one crucial moment in the game of chicken over a looming shutdown of the United States government, President Obama and the House speaker, John A. Boehner, faced off in the Oval Office.

Considerably worse were spikes in both hate crimes and air-conditioning failures, record system-wide overcrowding, the looming shutdown of the indispensable L train, and — salt in the wound — a fare hike, effective next month.

Anyone who is confused about the latest budget crisis and looming government shutdown need look no further than this educational (and dramatic!) clip from Season 5 of "The West Wing," in which President Jed Bartlet and leaders of an opposition Congress stare each other down in an eleventh-hour meeting.

The House, under the shadow of a looming government shutdown, voted early Sunday to link further financing of the federal government to a one-year delay of President Obama's health care law and a repeal of a tax that helps finance the law – all but ensuring large parts of the government would close on Tuesday.

By The New Yorker April 6, 2011 Anyone who is confused about the latest budget crisis and looming government shutdown need look no further than this educational (and dramatic!) clip from Season 5 of "The West Wing," in which President Jed Bartlet and leaders of an opposition Congress stare each other down in an eleventh-hour meeting.

The issue there was the looming government shutdown.

Obama also spoke on the looming government shutdown Friday afternoon.