Sentence examples for major stoppages from inspiring English sources

Schools and businesses were forced to close during the blackout, which lasted 12 hours, and even city transportation and airports suffered major stoppages as a result.

While the chancellor made much of his income tax cuts, the other major "stoppage" from workers' pay packets – national insurance – was largely frozen.

There may be at least $20 per barrel priced into oil for the possibility of a major stoppage in supply worldwide.

A walkout would be Hollywood's first major work stoppage since writers struck for five months in 1988.

OTTAWA — For the second day in a row, Canada's labor minister took steps toward legislating an end to major work stoppage on Wednesday.

The last three major-league stoppages show that the relief of seeing our favorite sports after an absence overwhelms any sense of betrayal.

Liberal critics have suggested that the work stoppage proves that a major city can stay safe even in the absence of "broken windows" policing, but Bratton curtly rejected that argument.

Progress has stopped, he said, because "there's been a stoppage of major legislation".

players extend pact: The 2001 season will not feature the ninth work stoppage in Major League Baseball history.

That season is the first after the current collective-bargaining agreement expires, and before that agreement, achieved in 2002, negotiations for new contracts had always produced work stoppages in the major leagues.

In his submission, Morris noted that a change of policy would require "at least ACTU endorsement", otherwise "major and continuing, sporadic industrial stoppages, which would prejudice both our external and internal trade, is most likely to be the result".