Sentence examples for opened the telephone from inspiring English sources

The laughter subsided and the ranchera music faded as El Mandril opened the telephone line and took a call from a demonstration organizer in San Diego calling to say that more than 1,000 local students had skipped school to protest immigration legislation before Congress, part of a wave of such demonstrations in Southern California this past week.

Glasnost had opened the telephone lines to the Baltic.

Delusions: Persecutory Delusions — Individuals believe that there is a conspiracy against them or that they are being persecuted and commonly believe that they are being followed, bugged, that mail is opened, the telephone is tapped or that someone is harassing them.

Since 1998, when the European Union ordered all member countries to open the telephone markets to competition, the German company has lost about 30percentt of its long distance market to domestic and foreign carriers and has been forced to slash some of its rates as much as 70percenttoto keep from losing even more.

The first directory was issued in January 1880 by The Telephone Company, which had opened the first telephone exchange in the UK the previous year, with just seven subscribers in the City of London.

SBC Communications will pay the government a $6.1 million penalty for failing to meet standards for opening the local telephone market to competition in the areas it serves.

I had the privilege of inteviewing Golan ten years ago, regarding his work with Godard on "King Lear"; the film is a masterwork, but the collaboration ended unhappily, in part because Godard opened the film with a telephone conversation between himself and Golan in which the producer pressed Godard to complete the film in time for the 1987 Cannes festival (where it in fact premièred).

Opening lines: "The telephone rang.

"Opening up the telephone times statewide killed us," said Michael Nuccitelli, 43, a construction worker from Bethpage.

The officials said they hoped that opening the apartment doors to the telephone companies, which offer the same packages of television, broadband and phone services as the cable companies, would force the cable companies to cut their rates.

In addition to the website, the administration also opened a telephone hotline at (800) 318-2596 to answer consumers' questions in English, Spanish and more than 150 other languages, according to a press release.