Sentence examples for shutdown of services from inspiring English sources

To prevent the violence from spreading, the government ordered an almost complete shutdown of services.

By midmorning, though, a threatened shutdown of services to government offices had not happened and a threatened transit strike in Bangkok appeared not to have materialized.

But United States District Judge Joseph J. Farnan Jr. in Wilmington, Del., who is overseeing the case, ordered Winstar to keep operating after the Federal Communications Commission said Winstar's 30,000 customers could not tolerate an immediate shutdown of services.

The most pressing item under discussion was a re-authorisation of Congress's "continuing resolution" to fund the federal government and avoid a shutdown of services, and a possible extension of George Bush's tax cuts.

"This is a night of deep sorrow for me because I don't want to see this shutdown occur," Mr. Dayton told reporters late Thursday, not long before his spokeswoman confirmed that a shutdown of services had begun.

But in the end, the fundamentally different fiscal approaches of the Republicans and the Democrats here did not change, and Minnesota began its broadest shutdown of services in state history with no end in sight.

I do believe people should take notice of the fact that the Saudi government has threatened three companies with shutdown of service – us, Skype and Whatsapp.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority unveiled plans yesterday for significant and costly changes to subway stations to prevent the shutdown of service that followed last month's intense flooding.

The transportation authority's hurricane plan "calls for an orderly shutdown of service before the arrival of sustained winds of 39 mph or higher" in the elevated portions of the subway system and the agency's railroads.

Britain's Civil Aviation Authority also announced a shutdown of service over Scotland's outermost Hebrides islands Monday night because of the risk that ash could be ingested into jet engines.

A series of power failures that darkened a Lower Manhattan subway station late Thursday and early yesterday morning forced the shutdown of service on the A, C and E trains for several hours, snarling the morning rush for many commuters.