Sentence examples for switched off internet from inspiring English sources

When AT&T Broadband, the nation's largest cable provider, balked at making the higher payments, Excite@Home switched off Internet service for 850,000 AT&T customers.

The government switched off the internet and mobile-phone network.

With little volatility to trade around, UBS started firing traders and switched off the Internet trading platform.

At the height of the protests in Egypt in 2011, that country's authorities switched off the Internet to block opposition activists from communicating and documenting their rebellion.

Colonel Qaddafi has switched off the internet and prevented the east from getting petrol supplies, so its transport system may falter.

Embarrassed by smuggled video and photographs that showed their people rising up against them, the generals who run Myanmar simply switched off the Internet.

For example, after Egypt switched off its internet in January some activists brought laptops to places like Tahrir Square in Cairo to collect, via short-range wireless links, demonstrators' video recordings and other electronic messages.

Another thing that brings people together is goading politicians – and it's important to remember that just because it's not your election, it doesn't mean you can't leave snarky comments on your friends' profiles when their president has switched off the internet on election day – see Yoweri Museveni in Uganda.

First, al-Shabaab switched off the internet.

It is switched off.

Many viewers simply switched off.