Sentence examples for utilities run from inspiring English sources

Taxes are $1,790 a year and utilities run about $225 a month.

ONCE, all big telephone companies were stodgy public utilities, run on civil-service time and post-office efficiency.

Because of the current lack of real-time monitoring and controls, system operators often insist that utilities run just 50% of the maximum load through their wires.

He therefore envisioned a society formed of independent peasants and artisans, with factories and utilities run by associations of workers, all united by a system of mutual credit founded on people's banks.

Re "Teach Your Children, Virtually" (May 29): In Ohio, online charter schools receive -- from woefully inadequate state education funds -- the same per-pupil number of dollars that schools receive that also have to maintain bricks-and-mortar facilities, pay utilities, run transportation systems, staff cafeterias and provide many special pupil services.

The objection, then, is that infinite utilities run afoul of the underpinnings of decision theory (expected utility theory), and thus of the theory itself.

After six months of buying power for about $250 a megawatt hour, the utilities ran into deep financial trouble.

During the state's power crisis, California's utilities ran up huge debts because they could not pass wholesale price spikes on to bill payers.

California's gross product was just about to overtake that of France.Today, the surplus is gone, swallowed up by a power crisis that drove the state to start buying costly electricity when local utilities ran out of cash.

Raj Manhas, who had a background in banking and utilities, ran Seattle's schools from 2003 to 2007, balancing the budget but facing fierce opposition over his plans to close schools.

It's strange that German and French nationalised utilities running their railways, gas and electricity can borrow capital commercially, enabling them to invest in acquiring British rail contracts, as well as acquiring our former nationalised gas and electricity concerns.