Sentence examples similar to a compact basin from inspiring English sources
This contingency, known as a "compact call," sets the lower-basin states against the upper, but it has never occurred; it is deeply feared by many water managers, because it would ravage the fragile relationship among states and almost certainly lead to a scrum of lawsuits.
The Indus river partnership functioned through successive clashes between India and Pakistan; the Mekong has been a co-operative venture even though the region through which it flows has been racked by war; and the ten squabbling countries of the Nile basin have signed up to a compact brokered by the World Bank.The critics' hostility to profit and the private sector is equally misconceived.
In contrast to basement rocks, in which deformation is episodic and spatially focussed, deformation in compacting basins proceeds relatively continuously and widely.
The states in the Delaware Basin joined in a compact to establish an agency to control the use of water from the basin, institute programs to prevent pollution, provide recreation facilities, transmit and sell hydroelectric power, and provide watershed management.
A compact f-invariant set (Lambdasubset M) is called an attractor if there is a neighborhood U of Λ called its basin such that (f^{n} x rightarrow Lambda) for every (x in U).
Barry Press is a compact man.
A compact, well-muscled man.
-- and a compact gallery.
A compact treatment of a complex case.
Both Baarles form a compact whole.
