Sentences with phrase «dams because»

(By the way, they're called dental dams because dentists also sometimes use them to protect their patient's mouth during dental work.)

I hate the Glen Canyon dam because it flooded that whole area up.

A dismissed lawsuit to strengthen the dam because of climate change effects predicted catastrophic flooding

The side splits which many people still associate with Van Dam because of his insistence in showing it in all his early films is an iconic demonstration of flexibility and the one stretch that everybody associates with martial arts and the ability to kick high.

Notice that Table 1 does not label either parent as the Sire or the Dam because autosomal characteristics are not dependent upon the sex of either parent.

When I was a kid I spent many weekends on the Vaal Dam because one of my closest friends had a holiday home there.

(11/09/2011) Indigenous communities do not have the right to free, prior and informed consultation on the Belo Monte dam because its infrastructure and reservoirs would not be physically located on tribal lands, ruled a Brazilian court.

Not exact matches

Norbert Morgenstern, a geotechnical engineering professor that presented the results, said liquefaction occurred because sand in the tailings dam was «loose, uncompacted and saturated.»

«A man is not a foreman on a dam project because he wants to be macho.

and i could care less because it does nt make a dam bit of difference to my belief in god.

There are two wonderful things that give me a positive wow factor every day — the increasing number of people I discover doing fantastically brilliant stuff, quietly and without fuss, living out the Gospel of Christ in gentle, caring, loving ways, most of which the church institution hasn't got a clue about because it's too dam busy running itself.

Now, however, fish were missing from the river because «the dam, and afterward the canal at Billerica... put an end to their migrations hitherward.»

IF you don't then I feel sorry for your SOUL because you have dammed it to hell.

Because people that still follow the idiotic crap that Christians do, dam - n well deserve to be belittled as the backward, ignorant fools that they are.

(Note that invoking the Darwinian mechanism to explain why beavers build dams is not illuminating because if beavers didn't build dams, the Darwinian mechanism would readily account for this as well.)

Statements of one period are «felt as fact» in virtue of their congruity with the spirit, practice, and basic assumptions of a time; they are not «felt as fact» by another period because, in the unstoppable running of water over the dam, the spirit, practice, and basic assumption of a time became altered.

I believe that we should first of all know exactly what the problem is with our club and that is the board and as longer as they are there, Wenger stays because he is doing a dam good job for them.

The Dancer, who gets his name because his dam, Natalma, was a Native Dancer mare, started his career extremely well in Canada last August and finished the season by winning Canada's Coronation Futurity in October and the Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct in November, the former at 1 «⅛ miles and the latter at a mile.

Man city have a squad that we can only dam of, I'm negative because Im tired of scraping through and yet paying more than any other fans for my season ticket, im fed up with hearing bullsh!t from our manager, had enough of losing by embarrassing score lines to clubs that have more ambition than us, Im annoyed at haring about players that became world wide successes that Wenger turned down or could have got but didn't, I hate that there's never any positive news on Arsenal, and most o all I am gutted that we have only on one tropy in ten years and ta its not sowing any ign of improving but plenty of signs of going backyards.

A little history may shed some light on my situation but in a nutshell, i am too dam decent for my own good and just suffer because of it.Married at 18 to my highschool sweetheart, god knows i loved that woman with every fiber of my being.

I have had it a couple of times since because a) sometimes I am not aware of what was in the food or b) I stopped caring at the moment because I wanted it (dam you cherry cokes!).

It is not unhealthy to be surrounded by it, if it was — we are all dammed, because we can not separate the concept of stillbirth from our lives.

A Chicago Park District proposal to dam four lakefront harbors because of record high water is drawing fire from critics who say it would seriously hamper boating and fishing and could jeopardize a 19 - year salmon stocking program that has made Chicago a salmon fishing capital of the Midwest.

Prefolds, however, win this competition because they not only have the elastic in the cover, but also the absorbent cotton material of the prefold itself held tight to the small of the back to help dam the flow.

If I did that with my kids the house would be destroyed, so nowadays you coddle instead of teaching right from wrong, I'll be dammed if I can't go to a restaurant because my kids misbehave.

Up to 25 % expected death rate in any given litter, macrosomic pups that block the canal and kill all the pups to follow, pups that are «too big to birth» so the bitch is euthanized because the owner can't afford a C - section, horrific rectal tears, sectioning dead calves just to get them out and save the dam, uterine atony, hypocalemia... the list of ways that «birth» can kill a dog or a cat goes on and on.

Will labour get it's message over, well you'd better tell me what the messages are first because I'm dammed if i know.

The Volta dam is drying because of the southward march of the Sahara Desert and energy generation is now going to rely on machines that consume our little oil.

Just because you want to win an election, you are promising one village, one dam.

«When Nkrumah was doing investment in infrastructure, some people who are still existing hurled insults at him and told him he was destroying the country with huge debts, but Nkrumah was optimistic to develop the country because he knew he was investing in the people of this country, and so he provided the Akosombo Dam which is serving all of us today.»

«Normally by this time this year the water level at Akosombo Dam should be between 155 - 160ft but it could not get to that level because of lack of rains this year», he explained.

«As a result, we can't release water from behind the dam and, as a result, silt is building up and silt has been building up near the area where there's a natural island because that's what nature wants to do - is continue to build the island - and it's caused not just to aesthetically look poor.

He might be right, because I'd be dammed if I vote again for anyone.

No, you are simply saying that if you are born in a particular village, because you have put the one dam there, you remain there and it will not be long, you will realize that that is not the aspirations of people», he added.

He disclosed that one of the reasons he left the NPP is because of Nana Akufo - Addo's One Village One Dam policy he described as the most ridiculous promise by a modern politician.

However, CSEA, the union representing the canal workers, immediately rejected Stratton's claim because many of the cuts involved Canal Lock Operators, who perform the vital function of controlling dam movement and regulating water levels.

«That Republican wave that's said to be sweeping the country runs into a levee — a dam, a blockade, whatever figure of speech you like — at the New York border probably because of Carl Paladino's foot - in - mouth disease.

«That Republican wave that's said to be sweeping the country runs into a levee — a dam, a blockade, whatever figure of speech you like — at the New York border probably because of Carl Paladino's foot - in - mouth disease,» Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Director Maurice Carroll said in a statement announcing the results.

«I'm quite lucky, because many colleagues in other countries can not fully support themselves while working on their Ph.D. thesis and do not have any form of social security, for example,» explains Van Dam, who is also the president of Eurodoc, a Europe - wide federation of 28 national associations that represent Ph.D. students and other researchers.

Because of the costs involved, only the smaller North Aral has been earmarked for rescue (New Scientist print edition, 4 January 2003), and several dams to stem water loss from it have been build since the mid-1990s.

This is expected to boost China's renewable energy capacity because financing from polluters can support more wind farms, hydroelectric dams and solar power plants.

European Eel The unsustainable harvest rates of European eel and diminished migration (because of dam construction around Europe) add up to a decline of at least 80 percent of the population since 1968.

This finding is important because government agencies and consulting companies use 2 - D shallow flow models to predict dam breaks and floods, as well as to estimate flood hazards.

Koyna is also unique because the borehole will be near a large dam, where the rise and fall of reservoir water levels frequently induces earthquakes.

After the dam was built, it took eight years to build the channels for irrigation — because the flood plain was too wet for bulldozers.

Because of undesirable social, environmental, and political implications, the construction of large dams often stirs controversy.

Small dams in China «often lack sufficient enforcement of environmental regulations» because they are «left to the jurisdiction of the province,» said Guy Ziv, lead scientist for the Natural Capital Project, an organization which develops tools to assess and quantify natural resources, and a researcher for the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.

That's because while the dams stopped new sediment flowing into the river, vast quantities of sand were already trapped in riverbed dunes downstream of the dams (Nature Geoscience, doi.org/sfr).

Local news media report that whole villages of people relocated to make room for the dam will have to move a second time because of the landslides and tremors, indicating that officials failed to foresee the full magnitude of the dam's effects.

The construction of large dams is increasingly controversial with both environmentalists and engineers because of past engineering debacles, refugee problems and disruption caused by changes in river flows.