Sentence examples for severe blackout from inspiring English sources

Notably, Haneke deploys the severe "blackout" effect to end scenes, almost arbitrarily, a technique also seen in his Code Unknown: a sharp, alienating sort of punctuation.

It has been generally acknowledged that the cascading failure is one of the main root causes which leads to the severe blackout events.

Cindy also caused flooding and a severe blackout in New Orleans, Louisiana, which encouraged the population to evacuate when Hurricane Katrina approached the city the next month.

It seems almost unbelievable that an electrical grid whose reliability had supposedly been bolstered after severe blackouts in 1965 and 1977 nevertheless failed in a matter of seconds on Thursday, leaving much of the Northeast, upper Midwest and Canada without electricity.

Severe blackouts in modern power systems, often with catastrophic consequences, were usually caused by a cascading development of emergency situation with system collapse as the final result.

Until, the 1998/1999 season when the nation went through severe blackouts, thermal and other sources of generating electricity was almost nil in the energy generation mix of the country.

MLB has several blackout rules.

Mr. Hanna said he was merely combating slanted and error-filled reporting, but many First Amendment watchdogs said the restrictions were among the most severe news blackouts they had heard of.

Large GICs can lead to severe electric blackouts, communication outages, and corrosion of oil and gas pipelines, especially during superstorms lasting for several days.

The games are based on reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the narrative chronicles actual events such as terrorist attacks that caused severe energy blackouts, the confinement and shooting of civilian groups, and various other episodes of abuse.

The outgoing chief executive of Ofgem, Alistair Buchanan, was criticised for announcing when he quit earlier this year that the UK faced a severe threat of blackouts as ageing power stations were taken off the grid and demand outstripped supply.