Sentence examples for strict blackout from inspiring English sources

As is routine here, the post maintained a strict blackout to prevent giving North Korean artillery gunners a night target.

It was very dark, a very strict blackout, there were no lights at all.

After Friday's announcement, the government imposed a strict news blackout on all news of the peace award.

On that occasion, the British media had been aware of the deployment but agreed to observe a strict media blackout.

American officials, who have honored a strict news blackout, did not even divulge the daily schedule or menu today.

Second, it maintained a strict media blackout in which it refused to comment on any piece of news about the program.

The cargo convoy, which included 100 vehicles and carried the turbine in seven containers weighing up to 30 tons each, took five days to struggle through the mountains, amid a strict news blackout.

A strict media blackout was in force as the prime minister flew into Kandahar on an RAF C17 Globemaster transporter after he was diverted from Camp Bastion following an overnight flight from Britain.

Breaking a strict news blackout maintained by his staff at the Camp David summit meeting, President Clinton told a newspaper editor today that he was more optimistic than when the talks opened six days ago but that he was not sure an agreement would be reached.

Many in the crowd were furious with the courts for convicting Qadri, with the governing faction of prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League for not ordering a presidential pardon, and with the media for agreeing to a strict news blackout on the protests.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) enforced a strict media blackout, blaming the sensitive nature of the operation.