Sentence examples for shutdown than from inspiring English sources

It's less a shutdown than a shakedown.

As Fox News notes, this is less a government shutdown than a government slimdown.

But the move looked more like a surrender to the shutdown than a serious last move.

— With 170,000 federal employees in Virginia and 30 percent of the economy of Northern Virginia dependent on government spending, no state has more to lose from a government shutdown than this one.

A new poll from NBC News and The Wall Street Journal highlighted the peril for Republicans, showing that they have shouldered a far larger share of the blame for the government shutdown than Mr. Obama.

Mr. Dent — who in a swing state has more to worry about from the shutdown than Republicans in solidly red districts in red states — begged to differ with his leadership.

The Congressional Research Service reported after the October 2013 government shutdown that more than 85percentt of DHS employees kept working despite the funding lapse.

We are seeing more illegal connections, more frequent shutdowns than one year ago".

Overall industrial output was boosted by strong mining output after tax changes, and a bounce in oil production, as there were fewer maintenance shutdowns than in previous years, but production growth more than halved to 0.3% from 0.7% in the previous quarter.

"The thing that is going to be different with this shutdown rather than last shutdown is, we have social media now," Ms. Walker said, referring to the stoppages during the Clinton administration.

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.