Sentence examples for shutdown itself from inspiring English sources

ReprintsMore worrying than a shutdown itself would be its implications.

"The shutdown itself is unreasonable," Mr. Xu said.

But the shutdown itself is just a classic march of folly.

The mystery is heightened by the question of just how much of an impact the shutdown itself will have.

To repeat, it is not the shutdown itself that threatens the unraveling of our being jointly committed in this way.

The 16-day shutdown itself has already led to the biggest plunge in consumer confidence since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

At this rate, the government shutdown may itself have been shut down by the time these words are read, with or without a fig leaf to cover the pachyderms' privates.

By itself, the shutdown — more than three days old and with no end in sight — "is going to have an impact," Mr. McNerney said in an interview.

Unfortunately, Congress has instead mired itself in a shutdown that will prevent us from getting the latest unemployment figures this Friday.

Their vast differences over the budget have set the governor and Democrats on a collision course that some predict could end in a government shutdown — something Maine, which prides itself on its bipartisanship, last experienced in 1991.

The city has been busily preparing itself for the shutdown, with schools closing, public transport routes bolstered and measures underway to help maintain some semblance of normalcy.