Sentence examples for widespread flight from inspiring English sources

Americans moved some money into gold but there was no widespread flight from the dollar.

The furloughs for air traffic controllers were among the most visible consequences of the cuts, leading to widespread flight delays.

The closure, they said, would lead to widespread flight cancellations that would strand up to 3,000 passengers.

No cause was given, but southern Kazakhstan in recent weeks has been buffeted by winds, heavy snows and low temperatures, causing widespread flight delays.

The agency has been criticized recently for failing to trim 5 percent of its budget (as required by the sequestration) without causing widespread flight delays.

This summer, that rule means you can expect widespread flight cancellations when thunderstorms or other bad weather affect the air travel system.

"We are experiencing the unpleasant consequences of a shock to the system," he said, "but we have not seen panic buying or hoarding, and we have not seen a widespread investment flight".

Until this point, the system has been supple enough to absorb its critics, whether through allowing them a stake in the system, as it did during the reform era under President Mohammad Khatami, or by excluding them from holding any stake and producing widespread apathy, flight, and disengagement, as it has during the last four years under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Nearly two feet of snow fell on some north-eastern areas on Thursday night and into Friday, causing widespread road and flight delays, closing schools on the second day back after Christmas, and leading the governors of New York and New Jersey to declare states of emergency.

A one-day strike by air-traffic controllers caused widespread disruption to flights into the country.See article: France's government versus the strikersIn regional and municipal elections in Spain, the conservative People's Party, led by José María Aznar, who runs the national government, did better than pollsters predicted, scoring only one percentage point less than last time round, in 1999.

Airservices Australia said, "The ash cloud is denser and larger than that which caused widespread disruption to flights last week".Andrew Tupper of the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in Darwin said the cloud should be clear of Tasmania by Wednesday night and he does not expect it to make a third visit.