Sentences with phrase «most dams»

Most dams suckle their puppies until they're 7 - 8 weeks of age, gradually decreasing the time the puppies are allowed to nurse.

Still, at most dams, the tremendous turbulence of the water can hurt or disorient fish, and the blades of a turbine can strike them.

If «Christendom» is the most damming and damning force in American religious life today, «outsiderhood» is the most creative and dynamic force in American religious history.

I think it would be fitting to to sum up the whole matter in one sentence by saying: The most dam - nable sin of man (kind) is when man declares his independence from God, his Creator, and proclaims he does not need Him!

The most damming part of the Channel 4 programme was that Mr Mitchell knew he could not trust Tully to reflect the discussions at all, and Tully portrayed Mitchell as arrogant and obstructive after the meeting.

And that's the most damming thing about Skill Moves in FIFA for me because they reward dexterity with the analogue stick over playing good football.

Most dam failures are not of the dam but of the adjacent slopes or in some cases the gate valves.

While the Committee's decisions showed clear recognition of the threat that dam building poses to the natural and cultural heritage embodied by these sites, it failed to protect one of the most dam - threatened properties: Lake Turkana in Kenya.

The report's most damming finding was escalating abuse of lawyers for carrying out their professional responsibilities mainly, but not exclusively, in human rights matters.

Not exact matches

Like many employers, van Dam has seen annual double - digit increases in health insurance premiums over most of the past decade.

Almost every province will need people overseeing big projects — potash and mining in Saskatchewan, petroleum in Alberta and B.C., and hydro dams in Manitoba and Quebec — with job demand for most of these projects peaking around 2015.

One lawmaker said it was the most important development in Nevada since the construction of the Hoover Dam southeast of Las Vegas during the Great Depression

In light of the approved dam, any unlawful blockages against the pipeline will be considered by most of Canada to be hypocritical.

Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.

One of the most urgent areas for investment is the nation's crumbling dams.

Prior to joining the Agency, Libby had a distinguished career in corporate affairs and government relations, most recently heading BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam corporate affairs division.

The irrigation dam of Ma» rib, which is one of the most ancient in the world, is evidence of the high standard of prosperity and civilization attained in Yemen.

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.

Today's most successful shows — Orange Is the New Black, Atlanta, Handmaid's Tale, Transparent, Master of None — despite their tonal differences, have one thing in common: They knock down the dam of censorship and embrace the humanity that spills out.

Most that I have known don't give a dam about marriage and the stats prove it,.

If you were an Ant and see the Empire State building or the Hoover Dam, it would be very difficult for you to think that a being is capable to create this, so this most be a natural creation.

And most importantly to mr Wenger play the dam players in correct position, lacazette a striker not a winger play him to his strength get ur tactics right and if they don't work tweak em ASAP not 70 - 80 mins to late

I agree arsene isn't perfect, but he's a dam sight better than most options.

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.

CALIFORNIA: Things are picking up at Havasu and Mohave lakes, and below Parker Dam, but most action comes at midday and big bass are in deep water.

For example the proposed Grand Inga Dam over River Congo in DR Congo has the potential to produce 40,000 MW of electricity that can power most of Africa.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — County Executive Robert P. Astorino will welcome thousands of people from around Westchester to celebrate our nation's independence with live music and one of the area's most stunning fireworks shows at the annual Music Fest and Fireworks on Monday, July 3, at Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla.

«The most important thing is that, by the time we left office, we had closed deficit and even with the low levels of the Akosombo dam, we had enough thermal complementation in order to ensure that we had adequate supply of power.»

These grants will ensure our dams and flood control projects are the safest and most efficient they can be to prevent further catastrophic damage similar to what we witnessed last year.»

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.

In Croatia, the average salary for a graduate student like Van Dam is a mere $ 650 per month, whereas an assistant professor can hope to push this up to about $ 900 — hardly sufficient for maintaining a decent standard of living in the eyes of most Croatian researchers.

Estimating that most large - scale projects need something on the order of Can $ 1 billion to become economically viable, Ball says that the Boundary Dam project wouldn't be able to go forward without a steady stream of revenue from the sale of CO2.

Farms and cities siphon most of the river's water before it reaches Mexico, but on March 23, under a binational agreement, U.S. and Mexican officials unleashed an eight - week «pulse flow» from a small dam on the border to help restore the delta.

Changes in the slope of moraine dams are thus «one of the most important parameters when deciding which lakes are dangerous,» Fujita says.

And costing just $ 11,000 for each kilometer of stream, artificial dam reinforcements are much cheaper than conventional restoration methods — since the beavers do most of the work for us.

It will collect behind the most southerly dam on the river, the Morelos, which sits on the Mexico - US border and normally diverts the last of the Colorado toward agricultural land.

Most falls in just four months, so the idea is to build dams to store these wet season rains, and irrigate the land during the eight bone - dry months.

While the most recent court ruling gives Belo Monte the green light, Imhof says at least 12 cases related to the dam are still outstanding.

We've already transformed most of the biosphere beyond anything our early ancestors could have imagined, clearing, ploughing, burning, building, damming, domesticating, driving to extinction, dousing with chemicals and even changing the climate.

Rosi - Marshall explains, «Food web stability increased with distance from Glen Canyon Dam, with downstream sites near tributaries proving the most resistant.

Among the team's findings: following an experimental flood, sites near the dam had the most dramatic changes in the structure and function of their food webs.

The Yangtze carries 530 million tonnes of silt through the dam site each year, most of which could settle out on the reservoir bed.

Earlier this year, Adrian Baltanas, the national director - general of water, proposed a # 20 billion plan that involves building two hundred large dams and wholesale transfers of water from the north, where most of Spain's rain falls, towards the parched south.

Then in 1837, a new dam barred salmon from most of their spawning beds and buried the river under a reservoir.

• Hadfield notes that some of the most serious flooding along the Yangtze is generated downstream of the dam, and...

The Murray - Darling Basin is Australia's most developed river basin, with 240 dams that store almost 30,000 gigalitres of water.

The Kok - Aral Dam, the project's centerpiece, traps the increased flow from the Syr Darya into the northern Aral Sea, preventing it from draining away into the southern Aral Sea, most of which lies in neighboring Uzbekistan.

Wherever possible, farmers built dams and canals to irrigate cropland; they also built terraced stone walls on hillsides to make new fields; and they drained the swamps outside Tenochtitlán to create raised fields (chinampas), one of the most highly productive agricultural systems of the ancient world.

Mining projects (37 %) and water impounded behind dams (23 %) are the most commonly reported causes of induced earthquakes, but unconventional oil and gas extraction projects using hydraulic fracturing, are now a frequent addition to the database, said Miles Wilson, a geophysicist at Durham University working on the HiQuake research effort.

Although these dams were most often built in locations that were not thought to suffer from earthquakes (the Lower San Fernando Dam that nearly failed in a 1971 earthquake in the Los Angeles area is a notable exception), our knowledge of just where and when an earthquake may strike is no longer limited to the west coast.