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power cuts

n. (power cut English)

Usage examples of "power cuts".

I had cars lined up for gasoline, daily power cuts, no water coming out of household taps, crowds of unemployed young men standing on corners, fifteen-year-old girls shot to death for politics.

She's not sure what causes the beam downtime (Pierre has a theory about Oort cloud objects occulting the laser, but she figures it's more likely to be power cuts back at the Ring), but the consequences of losing power while maneuvering deep in a quasi-stellar gravity well are much more serious than a transient loss of thrust during free interstellar flight.

The Dark Gods promise their followers a great deal, and the lust for power cuts deep .

This district was subject to frequent power cuts, and occasionally the tap water slowed to a rusty dribble.