So he decided to shut down sooner rather than later.
But after a fire last week in the exhaust system above the kitchen, Mr. Resnick decided to shut down sooner.
A little more than five minutes later, however, the rocket's third-stage engine shut down sooner than it should have, before the spacecraft had enough velocity to reach orbit.
Regular readers know I thought it was a political fix against a damaged prime minister which would never succeed and a smart copper, worried about taking resources away from anti-terrorist work, would have shut it down sooner.
Given the gap in the National League standings, Santana's prior elbow problems and his importance to the Mets, the team's decision not to shut him down sooner raised questions about its approach.
After acquiring the company, it wasn't clear if Google was just interested in the content for its Google Maps and Google+ Local brands and whether it would shut Zagat down sooner or later.
But the officials insisted that there had been no need to shut the system down sooner or to do more to verify the security of the system, because there had been no sign of a recurrence of such severe problems until the most recent spate of attacks.
It had been unable to shut down IHAT sooner because the investigations had been under scrutiny by the High Court and the International Criminal Court, it added.
While it's not known whether an auto shut-off valve would have detected the leak and reduced the size of the spill, environmentalists have criticized the lack of such a device, saying it could have shut the leaking pipe down sooner.
The sooner you shut down devices, the sooner you'll drift off into dreamland.
Because there was the question of, "If it was a huge disaster, wouldn't they have shut down the city sooner rather than Fin [Ian Ziering] having to spread the word?" Basically, the thought was that the people who were sucked out in mid-flight, it wasn't immediately apparent that this was the case.
