Sentence examples for vast blackout from inspiring English sources

Several governmental officials said the vast blackout today originated in the United States but concluded tonight that they did not know how the problem had erupted, or where.

India's power crisis came to the world's attention last July, when mismanagement of the grid caused a vast blackout in northern India that left more than 600 million people without power for two days.

Since the vast blackout of Aug. 14, much of the focus of elected officials and the public has been on how to fix the country's straining matrix of power lines and plants.

A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences about the vast 2003 blackout in the Eastern United States determined that the economic cost of that disruption was about 50 times higher than the price of the actual electricity lost, and that didn't take into account deaths or other human consequences.

The American satirical newspaper The Onion, however, ran perhaps the most damning indictment of India's predicament, by just printing the truth: Since India's infrastructure has been restored to 100 percent capacity following Monday and Tuesday's blackouts, "vast swaths of India are now completely without access to electricity," read the piece.

Like the World War I railroad meltdown, last week's blackout was vast precisely because of the interconnectedness that the network was meant to exploit and foster.

The country's vast censorship system that imposes media blackouts on topics ranging from missteps by China's leadership to investigating corruption cases.

Beijing's autocrats would have to make too many phone calls to too many frontier ISPs across their vast domain, says Cowie, to make a bona fide internet blackout very practical.

Partly due to a botched deregulation of the power sector, the state has endured a series of blackouts since last December that have already cost businesses vast sums of money and humiliated a state which sees itself as the high-tech centre of the world.California brought energy policy back into the headlines, but Mr Bush's administration has been busily remaking that policy in any case.

Speaking of which, you can watch a vast list of games — with the exception of those in your local blackout area — with a $100 subscription to MLB.tv.

But it has come under a rare spotlight since the World Bank approved a loan worth $3.75 billion to South Africa's state electricity utility, Eskom, to be used mainly towards completing the vast Medupi power station in the northern Limpopo province.South Africa, which had a rash of blackouts in 2008 and imports electricity from its neighbours, sorely needs more generating capacity.