Sentence examples for shutdown since from inspiring English sources

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Flooding wasn't the problem in Greenwich Village, home to the city's highest concentration of jazz clubs, which haven't faced an analogous shutdown since the World Trade Center attacks.

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Though we've published quizzes, Student Opinion questions and other features about the government shutdown since it began on Oct. 1, we'd been holding off on a lesson plan hoping, like everyone else, that the standoff would be resolved quickly.

The move sets up a confrontation with lawmakers and raises anew the threat of a government shutdown, since Mr. Paterson has proposed sweeping cuts to state school aid that many in the Legislature oppose.

The machine, which has been in a winter shutdown since December, will be started up again around Feb. 20, CERN said, and should reach its operating power in March.

There have been 18 government shutdowns since the modern congressional budgeting process took effect in 1976.

Four states besides Minnesota have had partial shutdowns since it started keeping records in 2002, lasting from a few hours to nine days.

In rebuttal, Republicans have noted the 17 times that the government has gone into a partial shutdown since 1977, as well as the three times since 1782 it has defaulted on its debts -- leaving unsaid the fact that such shutdowns are bad for the economy and even a technical default could be ruinous.

The events left Washington staring at the first government shutdown since 1996.

Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, will appear on CNN's "State of the Union" to talk about the budget battle that could trigger the first government shutdown since 1996.