Sentence examples for total shutdown from inspiring English sources

The total shutdown of the Underground system is thought to be unprecedented.

A total shutdown of the thermohaline circulation is considered extremely unlikely in the coming century.

It would only take one bad case, they warned, to prompt a total shutdown.

To avoid a total shutdown, Dalenergo has rationed power, blacking out parts of its grid for hours at a time.

He slept and ate that boy the last eight days; O for 14 -- that's a shutdown, a total shutdown".

Further, the article closes with an almost laughable assertion that the laboratory is at risk of "a total shutdown".

There will be lane closures and total shutdowns of the intersection at various times of day and night.

Since the beginning of 2010, Washington has caromed from a restrictive approach to drilling to a permissive policy closely mirroring that of the Bush administration to a near-total shutdown of offshore drilling after the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

The near-total shutdown of civil air traffic during the three days following the September 11 , 2001attacks afforded a unique opportunity in which to observe the climate of the United States absent from the effect of contrails.

After four years as an independent producer, Aubrey was hired by financier Kirk Kerkorian to preside over Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's near-total shutdown in the 1970s, during which he slashed the budget and alienated producers and directors but brought profits to a company that had suffered huge losses.

The likelihood of extreme drops in power generation, either complete or almost-total shutdowns, was projected to almost triple.