shut down power in a sentence

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1. The utility has also threatened to similarly shut down power to neighboring Bihar, one of India's poorest states, and the coastal province of Orissa.
2. The state Herald newspaper, a government mouthpiece, said Saturday labor unions were planning to shut down power and telecommunications next week to cause chaos.
3. On July 6, to prevent more damage to the system, Con Ed shut down power to about 200, 000 people north of 155th Street.
4. In the end, those lower electricity rates may do something that all the protesters and anti-nuclear referendum campaigns could not : shut down power plants.
5. The Provincial Electricity Authority ( PEA ) had notified Krabi Airport two days in advance that it would shut down power in the area for maintenance.
6. A powerful typhoon Monday pounded the northern Philippines, destroying agricultural lands and hundreds of houses, forcing authorities to shut down power in an entire province, officials said.
7. The defendants argued that they were merely plotting a hoax with confectioners'sugar masquerading as Semtex explosive in an effort to make the authorities shut down power themselves.
8. In protests led by the communist-backed CGT union, workers briefly shut down power at the private home of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and many other top figures.
9. The power surged through the lines into the ground, creating an electrical fault that shut down power to about a million people for up to eight hours.
10. Tests run by government and private industry have shown that it's technically possible for hackers to shut down power and phone systems by breaking in through the Internet.