Sentence examples for massive shutdown of from inspiring English sources

Ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano triggered a massive shutdown of European airspace last month.

DETROIT — With the federal government preparing for the likelihood of a Chrysler bankruptcy within a week, General Motors Thursday announced a massive shutdown of its factories over the next three months to reduce inventories and head off the risk of an "uncontrolled shutdown" from the financial crisis at bankrupt supplier Delphi.

A judge has denied class action status on two lawsuits filed by Chicago Public School parents hoping to block the district's massive shutdown of nearly 50 schools.

With another massive shutdown of the 405 freeway approaching, a grass-roots effort is underway to offer Angelenos an artistic reprieve that's locally focused, timed for the second coming of Carmageddon, Sept. 29 and 30.

McCarthy's squad and CPS have been under close scrutiny since the school year started as thousands of students were forced to navigate new routes along often unfamiliar and dangerous territory to their "welcoming" schools following a massive shutdown of 50 schools last spring.

The Federal Aviation Authority has ordered a massive shutdown.

President Reagan, in a spirited budget struggle with Congress, closed the government yesterday, the first time a chief executive has ordered so massive a shutdown of federal operations.

If you then had a global run on the banking system, which is what they really feared, there would be complete paralysis in the credit markets, massive numbers of banks failing, a complete shutdown of lending.

The company now faces the prospect of paying more than a billion dollars to get itself out of trouble and the threat of a massive network shutdown still looms overhead.

The massive school shutdown is the first of its kind in West Virginia since 1990, when 47 of the state's 55 counties closed schools for 11 days during a labor dispute.

The words "It's bedtime" cause an equally massive amplification but in the opposite direction, toward relaxation and shutdown of the body for sleep.