Sentence examples for time blackouts from inspiring English sources

Their books told of female intergalactic explorers, caterpillar-led empires, time blackouts, nuclear holocausts, experiments in eugenics and sex with Martians.

She sat in the hot tub with them as they cheerfully told her their stories -- an astonishingly consistent set of narratives involving bright light through bedroom windows, inexplicable time blackouts, encounters with bobble-headed small gray people with large black eyes and, often, invasive sexual medical experimentation.

(The only time blackouts actually work, according to the economists? Occasionally they force a few extra fans in bad weather to come out -- something that's not a problem in Tampa Bay).

Now this may be a country-specific solution (power shortages loom throughout the country and temporary solutions, like timed blackouts, are taking place in some locations) or this may be a harbinger of a practice that will appear in other countries.

At both times, blackouts were experienced most frequently followed by deterioration of health, and troubles with family and friends.

Tired of just accepting a permanent night-time blackout for much of the city, cafe owner A.J. O'Neil banded together with several Highland Park residents to find a solution.

"The 1960's was a crazy time -- blackouts, racial tensions, hedonistic drugs could easily take a kid down the wrong road," he said.

But energy analysts have predicted the shortage for some time, and blackouts were already an issue well before the rise in militancy over the past year.

The wave of proposals, coming at a time when blackouts, equipment failures and soaring energy costs have heightened public awareness about the delicate balance of electricity supply and demand, marks the beginning of a period of great promise and peril for New York, city officials, local community leaders and environmental experts say.

Every time a blackout seemed to suggest the piece had ended, a new section began, each as hermetic and self-referential as the one that preceded it.

This is due to the excessive number of batteries required to back up the system during night time and blackout hours.