Sentence examples for shut down communications from inspiring English sources

If an adversary lands a knockout blow, they fear, it could black out vast areas of the continent for weeks; interrupt supplies of water, gasoline, diesel fuel and fresh food; shut down communications; and create disruptions of a scale that was only hinted at by Hurricane Sandy and the attacks of Sept. 11.

Iran, a much more technologically developed country, can't afford to shut down communications across the board.

Nothing bonded the city and the paper more closely than the adversity of Katrina, the devastating storm that shut down communications around New Orleans for a few days in 2005.

Curiously, Internet experts said, the ease with which Egypt shut down communications networks may be a result of its historical lack of repressiveness when it comes to telecommunications access.

Using the Twitter hashtag #MuBARTek, a wry reference to Hosni Mubarak's efforts to shut down communications before he was toppled as president of Egypt, activists organized a new round of protests that forced BART to shut down four stations during rush hour last Monday.

The government's quick willingness to shut down communications is what got me (and others) thinking about the kill switch.

And shutting down communications by extremists online seems nearly impossible, according to Peter Molnar, an expert on free-speech law and one of the founders of the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University in Budapest.

Before shutting down communications, Fellgiebel calls Mertz about the explosion but cannot clearly convey whether or not the Führer is dead.

The government took a hard line, using riot-control tactics, and shutting down communications; But by the 28th the protests were continuing and the police had retreated.

To obtain a court order there has to be probable cause that mobile service is being used for unlawful purposes and that without shutting down communications, there would be an immediate threat to public safety.

A coalition of public interest groups petitioned the F.C.C. in August to declare that BART violated federal law, in part because shutting down communications networks endangered, rather than enhanced, public safety.