I had a complete blackout for a couple of minutes.

He described most of the decade as a 'complete blackout' and after averaging two pictures a year throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he released only one film in the 1970s.

The auditorium seats 500 and has complete blackout capability to darken the space during daylight hours.

This glass consists of two panes of polarized glass with a patterned optical axis that allows it to transition smoothly between shades of gray to near complete blackout opacity.

No one remembers ever seeing anything like this before: complete blackouts, people are self-censoring.

When a coastguard called the ship, an officer claimed that the only problem was an electrical blackout.

The lightning strike blew the antenna in half, causing an electrical blackout in the school for several hours, and bringing the radio station down for over 6 months.

Laborers were forced to work right up until the opening ceremony because of construction delays, electrical blackouts, and questionable venue quality.

Extreme food shortages and electrical blackouts led to a brief period of unrest, including numerous anti-government protests and widespread increases in urban crime.

Electrical blackouts frequently result from a cascade of failures between interdependent networks, and the problem has been dramatically exemplified by the several large-scale blackouts that have occurred in recent years.

The country came close to an electricity blackout in the past few weeks; the national electricity company needed an emergency injection of €380 million.

Electricity blackouts mean they often have to study by candlelight at night.

Telecommunications links have been upgraded and once-common electricity blackouts are a thing of the past.

She captured not just poverty, massive unemployment and huge overcrowding, but also daily life including curfews and electricity blackouts.

The problem has been compounded by electricity blackouts and logistical difficulties in the wake of the disaster and full production cannot resume until the aftershocks subside.

The ship had sounded its siren after a power blackout left it without controls.

They assumed the noise was connected to repair work in the area after a power blackout the previous weekend.

If all goes well, we will have a power blackout and will be spared the anguish of listening to these aging rock musicians.

By the power blackout, he had learned his lesson and taken centre stage.

The contact could be heard by passengers on board and caused a temporary power blackout when water flooded the engine room.

An electricity shortage caused rolling blackouts for up to 12 hours a day.

Rolling blackouts have been imposed to protect a decrepit national grid from complete collapse.

In 2014 delays in building new plants and inadequate maintenance of old ones brought a fresh wave of rolling blackouts.

Consumers are being warned that the rolling blackouts may last for five years and could rise to eight hours a day.

In the past two years, we have been hit by rolling blackouts - a combination of surging demand in the hot summer months and pre-emptive shutdowns in fire season.

House alarms were set off and their entire village suffered a blackout.

Passengers reported hearing a large boom and the ship suffering a blackout.

Yet at 9.54pm he ordered an officer on the bridge to tell the passengers that the ship had simply suffered a blackout.

Frank suffers a blackout and throughout the episode has flashbacks of that evening.

His defence was that he had suffered a blackout and could not remember the critical events.