Sentence examples for shut down meaning from inspiring English sources

The city's sewer treatment plant was shut down, meaning untreated waste water flowed directly into the Vltava river.

All the major public markets have also been shut down, meaning that he will not be returning to the footstool business soon, and that thousands of other traders are out of work for now.

And worse, the securitization markets were starting to shut down, meaning credit companies couldn't get the debt off their books.

We're hearing reports on Twitter that the coverage of Noor Group's DSL service, Egypt's last standing ISP which powers the Egyptian Stock Exchange as well as sites of major brands like Coca Cola and Exxon Mobile, is being shut down, meaning the nation will lose nearly all the remaining high-speed links to the outside world.

The private housing finance market essentially shut down, meaning no liquidity (the once robust -- and reckless -- market for mortgage-backed securities disappeared overnight), no home loans, no refis, and no way forward.

It begins when the university he was attending in the UK got shut down, meaning he couldn't finish his degree.

He said it could take up to eight hours to shut down the system, meaning that transit planners may have to make a judgment call on Saturday, well before the full force of the storm is felt.

This schedule was immediately knocked off course when the service elevator was shut down on Monday, meaning everything would be a day late, and I would be without a toilet for two weekends, not one.

He says that the "risk averse" industry "all but shut down their brain research", meaning there are few signs of real innovation from drug makers.

The goal: 'sunset' -- meaning shut down anyone with phone service on a future 'specified' date.

The regions of the brain responsible for planning and evaluating decisions simply shut down once deprived of sleep, meaning that you're inclined to be overly optimistic and happy to take risks.