Sentence examples for through the blackouts from inspiring English sources

People gathered to view the match in living rooms or open-air cafes -- any place where a private generator could assure electric power to run televisions through the blackouts.

We in the United States in 2001 might have felt a sense of security disappear, but the experience was not much different than what was felt by those who lived through the blackouts on America's East and West coasts during World War II or those who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s with air raid drills in school or riots in our own streets.

Mollison often had to take blood for transfusion to small local hospitals, driving a van through the blackout.

Eric Bunge, whose firm, nArchitects, redesigned Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, and Staten Island for "Rising Currents," kept working through the blackout thanks to an office generator.

Odd circumstances abounded yesterday for the people who work on Wall Street, but, operating largely on diesel-fueled generators, the financial markets muddled through the blackout without fail.

The outrage the power failure elicited from people whose generators hummed right through the blackout suggests a frustration with something more gloomy than the darkness: the persistent intrusion of India's reality upon its aspirations.

Whether you went through the blackout in the Northeast, live where winter storms frequently knock out the power, or just need to find your way to the baby's room, the Guardian lantern may be helpful.

Not many would accept the abysmal viewing conditions: no seats, no popcorn, incessant interruptions from other viewers wandering in and out, discussing what's going on, blocking the projector or letting in the light as they exit through the blackout curtains.

Together we were all just trying to get through the blackout.

AT sparsely attended committee hearings in the State House this spring, senators concerned about the blackouts rolling through California peppered state regulators with questions about electric power.

Officials said they believed the blackouts and brownouts would continue through the weekend.