Sentence examples for off the shutdown from inspiring English sources

You might have started off the shutdown with existing credit card debt, or racked up a balance trying to keep up with expenses since the shutdown began.

His comments followed remarks from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross shrugging off the shutdown's impact on 800,000 unpaid federal workers, many of whom are struggling to pay their bills.

The government had announced a day earlier that it would be sealed off because of the shutdown and because repairs had slowed after an episode of vandalism on the tree before the weekend.

"Furloughed federal government workers are not counted in the numbers but people temporarily laid off as a result of the shutdown are included.

Officials say about 15,000 workers in the private sector have already been laid off as a result of the shutdown.

A speech tournament planned for the day was also called off as a result of the shutdown.

Their opposite fates, the owners of both establishments say, illustrate the arbitrariness of the rules set off by the shutdown.

Washington raises its own revenues, but its spending requires Congressional approval that is cut off by the shutdown.

Federal workers temporarily laid off by the shutdown may also file for benefits, but their numbers are reported separately and published a week later than the other applications.

Yanina Fiallos of Alexandria, Va., said she'd worked at the Subway sandwich shop in the Ronald Reagan Building's food court for six years before being laid off when the shutdown started this week.

The trainee who noticed this accident should shut off the emergency shutdown valve manually.