Sentences with phrase «after widespread power»

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After suffering widespread power outages thanks to Irma, 1 million Puerto Ricans were left without electricity.

Maria arrived about two weeks after Irma skirted Puerto Rico and led to widespread power outages for at least 1 million of the island's 3.4 million residents.

Meanwhile, as the local churches were revolting against overall control, there was widespread revolt against the power of the ministers in the local churches until «after the Reforming Synod [of 1697], the clergy found themselves shorn of every weapon except moral persuasion, and their threat of [Divine] vengeance.»

Six months after Hurricane Maria hit the island on September 20, 2017, uprooting trees, destroying homes, and causing widespread flooding, many remain without power.

In the meantime, after half a decade, already, of widespread pay freezes and anxiety, and with Labour under Ed Miliband quietly accepting that they will next hold power in hard times too — «There is a new world out there,» the much - tipped young Labour backbencher Stella Creasy recently told this paper, «in the next [government] spending review absolutely everything should be on the table» — the toughening - up of Britain is arguably well underway.

Queens Councilman Peter Koo, who withdrew support for the Flushing West proposal after widespread community opposition, said he can not tell Rodriguez what to do in his district and that Council members» power is limited as is.

But after years of pushback from some elected officials and the power companies that owned the land, he said he now sees widespread support for the idea.

After adding in ongoing maintenance delays, crippled access to public transportation and widespread power outages to the circumstances, a storm could «really set back a family already on the brink,» Kelly said.

In the days after Hurricane Sandy battered the Eastern Seaboard, educators across multiple states faced the daunting task of reopening thousands of schools amid widespread power outages, flooding and wind damage, and other aftereffects of a storm that caused one of the largest disruptions to schooling in the United States in recent years.

Suffering economic slumps in the 60s and 70s, Bushwick was finally eviscerated by widespread looting and arson after the 1977 power outage in the New York City area, resulting in blocks of abandoned buildings, empty lots, and open - air drug supermarkets.

Irma comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey smashed ashore in Texas, knocking offline almost a quarter of U.S. oil refining capacity and causing widespread damage, power outages and flooding.

AFTER spending upwards of a trillion Euros of taxpayers money on the disastrous Energiewende program, all but destroying Germany's industrial heartland and causing widespread energy poverty to consumers and businesses alike, ideologically green - agressive Germany is giving up on its mad rush into unreliable «energy» — wind and solar — undergoing the biggest coal - fired power expansion in her history...

The German government announced today that it will shut down seven of the country's seventeen nuclear power plants for an indefinite period, a decision taken in response to widespread protests and a German public increasingly fearful of nuclear power after a nuclear emergency in Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai - ichi Power Plant, and halted all 50 reactors in Japan...

Dr. Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division warned Britain they faced ``... widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once - in - a-generation «space storm»».

After all, despite years of Nokia Windows phones, various Samsungs, LGs and other handsets offering the convenience of wireless charging, it's still not something that is truly widespread, but now that Apple has jumped on board, we should really see some wireless waves of power charging things up all over the place!