Sentence examples for war electricity from inspiring English sources

During the First World War, electricity was used to treat paralysis, epilepsy, and shell shock, often with disastrous results.

But the United States contended when it bombed power plants in Belgrade during the Kosovo war that electricity furthered Serbia's war effort.

Opening another front in California's war against electricity generators, the lieutenant governor and a state assemblywoman sued five of the largest ones today, charging that they had illegally gouged the state by billions of dollars.

In a yearlong trial run that ended in the spring, 200 or so homes on Washington's Olympic Peninsula engaged in a daily bidding war for electricity.

Much of the infrastructure had been destroyed during the war, including electricity and water supply systems, telephone services, as well as the harbor facilities at the Port of Singapore.

And nearly six years later, oil production is still below pre-war levels, electricity is spotty or non-existent in much of the country, and the availability of potable water has increased only modestly.

The electricity war.

In Japan it is also historic.Expect for a brief period of nationalisation in the run-up to and during the second world war, Japan's electricity industry has always been proudly private.

The institute was struck by missiles during the war and all electricity to the store room was cut.

The simplest of textile mills could not function without foreign-made parts; farmers needed imported pumps to run their irrigation systems; and the government could not mend the war-damaged telephone, electricity, road, water and sewerage networks without material from abroad.

There's the poster from 1955, the post-war period when electricity was sparse, encouraging citizens to "save even a single watt of electricity and divert it to production and construction!" During the food push from 1979, a poster declares "let's press more edible oils" – as a smiling factory worker shows off a display of products including soy, rapeseed and walnut oils.