Sentence examples for officials grounded from inspiring English sources

Federal officials grounded every airplane in the country.

AIR TRAFFIC OFFICIALS grounded aircraft, fearing the silica-rich ash would cause engines to fail.

A1 The blackout in the Northeast stranded thousands of travelers as officials grounded planes taking off from the three major airports in the New York area as well as half-dozen others in smaller cities.

The blackout stranded thousands of air travelers, as officials grounded planes and prevented landings at the three major airports in the New York area as well as a half-dozen others, causing a ripple of delays and cancellations.

It has been business as usual for the 102-foot-long, 24,000-pound model of a British Airways Concorde overlooking Times Square, even though British and French aviation officials grounded the Concorde fleet after an Air France Concorde crashed in July.

Yesterday, NASA officials grounded indefinitely the troubled $2 billion Chandra X-ray Observatory due to a suspect rocket motor.

Q. -- Why did officials ground crop-dusters last month after the attacks? A. -- Investigators found that some of the hijackers made repeated inquiries about the use of crop-dusting planes in the weeks before the attacks.

Fearing a germ attack, officials had grounded crop dusters.

Fire officials immediately grounded the aircraft.

The government hasn't cited any official grounds, but the matter seems to have been decided long ago.

The official ground zero memorial, with its tower footprint pools and bronze list of victims' names, opens on Sept. 12, with the associated museum scheduled to open a year from then.