Sentences with phrase «knocked out for»

«Here in south Florida, the power can be knocked out for a substantially long period of time,» said Brenda Burtch, vice president of Elcon Electric, Inc. in Pompano Beach, Fla. «A couple of years ago, there were several people without power for more than three weeks.

If the worst case scenario happens and your power gets knocked out for several hours or days, a portable generator will be able to keep food in the refrigerator cold, allow you to continue to work on your laptop (which inevitably will have a low battery when the power goes out), or let you heat up a quick meal.

-- has been repeatedly knocked out for hundreds of thousands of households, businesses and other institutions for days at a time by violent storms and blizzards in just the last few years.

When your health reaches 0, your character will knocked out for the remainder of battle.

If you're knocked out for the round, you switch to a spectator mode where you can mess with your other opponents to try and control who the last racer left in the round is.

I could predict when a set - piece was coming, and even predict what it was going to be because I've done it so many times before and Ghosts feels like it was made with a checklist: obligatory «tense» stealth section, check; mad car chase where you have to shoot at stuff, check; being knocked out for a few seconds about once every minute, check.

On the upside, if you have given your dog benadryl then he / she will probably be knocked out for awhile as it has a tendency to induce drowsiness.

You can now add a new special edition Veyron to the list, with a new Bugatti that is a bit more than just a couple of special editions knocked out for one - upmanship in the Gulf — the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse.

Turnaround on this official sequel was so quick it was in picture houses the very same year as its predecessor, knocked out for a meagre $ 250,000.

I was in and accident and knocked out for 5 months.

Dr. Kalish was one of his weak links that really knocked him out for a bit, infection-wise.

Why do donkeys snooze for just three hours a day, while hairy armadillos are knocked out for more than 20?

In the Town of Chester, incumbent town board members won the Republican line by a large margin — Michael G. Packer received 263 votes and Michael G. Packer won 248 votes while political newcomer Ava Ashendorff, got 107, and is knocked out for November, when Lauren Pereau joins this race as an independent.

Then reality hits and I think, Oh, wait, I don't want major surgery — I don't like the risks involved and I certainly don't want to be knocked out for weeks at a time.

When I conceive I get literally knocked out for a few hrs with nausea, cramps and severe fatigue.

The thought was that when she was knocked out for an emergency c - section, a mom could aspirate on her own vomit.

She was knocked out for their first feeding so I agreed to give them formula.

Giroud gave it his all — even got knocked out for the cause.

Meh, can we for once call a spade by its name??? We were f**king knocked out for the umpteenth time.

We saw Teams get knocked out for the first time and we also saw 2.

knocking him out for the whole season.

Injuries played a role, to be sure, pinpointing the one person Tech could least afford to lose (cornerback Kendall Fuller) and knocking him out for the season after just three games.

Yes, it's unfortunate that we can't knock ourselves out for 9 hours with that glorious nighttime sniffling sneezing coughing aching stuffy head fever so you can rest shot of cherry Nyquil.

That was my baby and no one was knocking him out for something that wasn't life - threatening.

Sometimes a bout of the flu knocks you out for a week — and sometimes it knocks you out forever.

Customers are going crazy for the Twilight Body Spray from Lush Cosmetics, claiming it helps knock them out for a great night's sleep.

The vet has to knock her out for any visits including check ups or getting her claws trimmed.

Crowd interaction also does little to impact the game, aside from the occasional annoyance at a thrown bottle or bomb hitting your skater in the head and knocking them out for a few seconds.

I'm starting a 2 - week round of steroid pills tomorrow... hopefully that'll knock it out for a few years!

Not exact matches

A few years ago our area had a major windstorm that knocked out power for many days.

Thursday night's Republican debate, the eleventh for the GOP, was a knock - down, drag - out spectacle featuring pugnacious and frequently vulgar candidates.

Between contact sports and wrecking motorcycles and bicycles and other misadventures, I've seen stars, been knocked out, had headaches and nausea that lasted for days... and those were just the concussions I knew about.

I knocked Mark Zuckerberg yesterday for copping out on the issue of fake news on his company's platform.

Rather than carving out new markets — or, as Real Matters founder Smith puts it, «knocking on doors and trying to sell a brand new widget that [nobody] has the budget for» — the fastest - growing tech firms are making inroads by finding better solutions to existing needs.

for this new American - German axis to knock out Gillette and Schick.

Finding the time to answer emails, handle paperwork and then still have enough energy left over at the end of the day to knock out my own list of design tasks for me personally was and still is from time to time a hurdle.

When Sandy struck, it knocked out electricity for two days, which disabled four of the company's furnaces, which were keeping glass molten at 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Some consumers prefer to focus the highest - rate debt first; others knock out the smallest balance first, said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst for Bankrate.com.

Opportunity keeps knocking for the insurance industry to figure this out.

The idea to anonymously write about the sacrifices he was about to make occurred to Mihalic last August after knocking out a cover letter to apply for a weekend delivery job.

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Then out of nowhere, bear comes along, decides he wants their apples and attempts to, for no reason, knock down and take everyone apples.

In our tests, the Gene Knockout Kit gave us greater than 80 percent knock - out rates for seven targets,» shares Shondra Miller, Ph.D., Director, Center for Advanced Genome Engineering at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, on Synthego's web site.

We did a lot of knocking on doors, asking for advice and trying to figure out what the next move is.

However, people have also been coming to the mall since Monday for a different purpose, thanks to last weekend's ice storm knocking out power in many Toronto - area homes.

One of the ways that Jack Welch deciphered leaders from followers is that he would look for those who had the wind knocked out of them, but proved that they could run even harder in the next race.

Puerto Rico avoided a direct hit from Irma, but the storm knocked out power for 70 percent of the island, and killed at least three people.

The wireless industry has for years successfully fought regulations that would force mobile phone networks to be hardened so they work during storms, but it may face renewed demands after Hurricane Harvey knocked out seven of 10 cell towers in the hardest - hit counties of Texas.

Get aggressive and knock out high - interest debt now, since later you'll probably be balancing saving for your own retirement and for college if you have kids.

With its virtually - no - questions - asked returns policy, staff who routinely go the extra mile and endearing amenities like monthly shoe - tying lessons for kids, Nordstrom knocks other retailers out of the park.