Sentence examples for unprecedented shutdown from inspiring English sources
Should the measure fail, the government would face an unprecedented shutdown.
In August 2011, the transportation authority undertook an unprecedented shutdown of the subway system in advance of Tropical Storm Irene.
Last year, the authority carried out an unprecedented shutdown of the entire subway system ahead of Tropical Storm Irene.
The disaster follows Mount Everest's deadliest avalanche, which killed 16 guides in April on the world's highest peak, forcing an unprecedented shutdown.
EU transport ministers meet today to discuss awarding state aid to an industry that suffered heavy losses from the unprecedented shutdown of airspace, with an overhaul of regulations also on the agenda.
The Himalayan nation has suffered multiple avalanches this year, with 16 guides killed in April in the deadliest accident to hit Mount Everest, forcing an unprecedented shutdown of the world's highest peak.
In a morning radio interview on Oct. 25, the Thursday before the hurricane was projected to arrive, Joseph J. Lhota, the chairman of the transportation authority, recalled Tropical Storm Irene, which spurred an unprecedented systemwide shutdown last year.
As the colossal storm cruised toward New York, an unprecedented MTA shutdown allowed New Yorkers to entertain ideas of unheard-of calamities: tornadoes ripping through Manhattan, window-smashing winds, Battery Park sinking — everything short of the apocalypse.
The shipping industries, fearful that the drought could cause an unprecedented extended shutdown, had in recent months called for the engineering corps to release even larger amounts of water from reservoirs along the upper Missouri River, which provides nearly half of the water flowing past St.
Galvanized by the unprecedented Internet shutdown in Egypt, angel investor Shervin Pishevar has launched OPENMESH a forum for people who want to discuss ways of preventing governments from blocking communications networks.
"This is an unprecedented industrywide shutdown.
