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41 examples of Blackout in a sentence

Who's been hiding this sky from me?" Of course, the answer is obvious if you think about it or if you look at the picture on the left, where you're seeing the same neighborhood taken during a blackout versus on an ordinary night.
There was a media blackout in 2008, when there was post-election violence in Kenya.
I had never had to deal with a blackout.
The damage can manifest in many different ways including blackout, headache, blurry vision, balance problems, altered mood and behavior, problems with memory, thinking, and sleeping, and the onset of anxiety and depression.
In other words, what's so powerful about our approach is that it could turn on people's existing desire to do good, in this case, to help to prevent a blackout.
Like the blackout prevention program, we've got the solution.
And this is one of the blackout spaces where there's a video piece that became totally not useful.
In 2003, there was a blackout that affected large parts of the United States and Canada, and Todd Carlson lost his electricity, and he was smart enough to take a picture of his house at that time, and this is what it looked like.
Effectively, the Taliban create a complete blackout of any other source of information for these children.
And shortly after the election and the outbreak of violence, the government suddenly imposed a significant media blackout.
This is an effective Holmes story, set in the atmosphere of Switzerland and blackout England.
The last episode was good, I'm not sure how to take it many different things can be construed by the ending id like to think that tony didn't die but meadow walked in and sat down with them and that the blackout was just for suspense.
The sudden, no BS ending is awesome--I love it when movies end with an abrupt blackout like that, and he gets a great ending line.
However, even is this is true, the script should have made reference to this hard to believe 'fact' in dialogue, simply because the situation was so unusual and would have breached the strictly enforced wartime regulations concerning the blackout.
yes,the two are seen off by a senior officer who is driven up to their plane in a car with headlights blazing; presumably the Yanks didn't think the blackout applied to them.)
She has the operation, and when the time comes to take the bandages off, the instant she does the city is plunged into a blackout.
Paul moves the daughters to his place and Lila becomes depressive and upset, goes to a bar and uses drugs with alcohol, having a blackout.
What with US army personnel parading around London in uniform before the US had entered the war; the stock footage of the 1970s era London Ambulance rushing the agent to the hospital; the "military" DC3 in civilian paint scheme; the Rolls driving around with headlights full on in the blackout; the "French Port" with lights blazing, also in the blackout; the "Social Club" in London that had both male and female members; the two "heroes" jumping out of the aircraft without a jump-master; and... Well, I could go on and on but I think you get the point.
When Noah accidentally assembles the objects and activates a powerful generator creating a blackout in the state, the FBI arrests the family trying to disclose the mystery.
His apple cart is upset when he discovers he is falling for the wife he picked up during the nine year blackout.
Basically college professor Miranda Hollander (Helena Mattsson) lives her life like any other normal woman, before suffering a mysterious blackout, and without her knowledge, transforming into a hideous alien creature.
Also, not that even a brain could help him here, if he is from ancient times, how does he know how to cause an electrical blackout?
But these dismissals pale in comparison to a government-imposed blackout in early February.
Despite this news blackout, China’s blogosphere and microblogs exploded after Liu was announced as the winner.
Burma’s Drug Lord GeneralsThe news blackout imposed by Burma’s military junta on its decision to forego its turn as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year shows that it has received a severe blow to its prestige.
While financial institutions tried to mitigate risks by bundling subprime mortgages, Fukushima’s cooling system was able to cope with either a blackout and an earthquake or a tsunami.
The blackout imposed on Chechnya prevents any precise assessment of the devastating effects of a ruthless conflict.
The August 2003 blackout in the northeastern US revealed that more than a dozen nuclear reactors in the US and Canada were not properly maintaining backup diesel generators.
Despite a news blackout during the riots in Lhasa, for example, Chinese Internet users managed to dodge the country’s censorship.
Future cyberattacks may well target more than one member state, and a blackout in one country would severely affect others.