Sentences with phrase «build embankments»

These might include small dams in the headlands or working with farmers to build embankments around fields to store water during the winter months when cattle are housed indoors.»

One possibility, says Beltrando, is to build embankments with holes to allow the cold air to escape into the valley bottoms.

Jesus says, in Luke 19:43 - 44, «The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you in on every side.

In 1991, Shabica recommended that John Keno build an embankment along the shore.

Not exact matches

They protected it by a wall five meters thick, built on a raised embankment.

Low - lying Bangladesh is threatened by rising seas, but embankments built to hold back the waters may be doing more harm than good

Dubbed the Great Pompeii Project, it focuses on draining and securing embankments, restoring masonry and decorated surfaces, and protecting buildings from weathering.

That tidal amplification has big implications for coastal protection, says Goodbred: for areas with long tidal channels, building more embankments could actually cause higher tides and exacerbate saltwater intrusion.

In the past 50 years, Bangladesh has built 4000 kilometres of embankments along the coast.

Well, all has been announced, but the first thing to say is that the «strand» gala screenings will take place at a new, purpose - build, 780 - seat cinema on the Embankment, sensibly named the Embankment Gala Cinema.

Deep inside a maze of spaces in a scaffolded building at the city's southern embankment, Khaled Hafez of Cairo showed Mirror Sonata for a Temple, his colourful video of millennia of cultural icons in a parade on the screen — satirically muscled men, bulls from Mesopotamian history, elegantly decorated architecture.

Victoria Embankment, until December 2014 HMS President, one of the last three surviving Royal Navy warships built during WW1, is covered in a new form of «dazzle camouflage», the disruptive camouflage invented to confuse enemy U-boats.

«Tracings up to the LA River placed in the Clark Telescope Dome, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ» presents the first works that are part of Secular Response 3, in which the concentric circular markings from the footprint of the round building that houses the Clark telescope are laid out with the messy «micro-histories» found in the markings on the concrete embankment of the LA River.

With the assistance of Dutch funding, Bangladesh has developed this new land by building roads, embankments, and cyclone shelters, as well as distributing land among settlers to re-settle 21,000 families.

Of course, the Hermitage Museum is the big draw, with its 3 million exhibits spread over six historic buildings and close by, on Palace Embankment.