Sentence examples for accommodate the flood from inspiring English sources

Mr. Corbett realized his home and his finances could not accommodate the flood of Central Americans.

On Wednesday, even as it announced its huge financing needs for the latest quarter, the Treasury said financial markets could accommodate the flood of new bonds.

The voting will continue for the rest of the week, and election officials have extended the hours at polling places to accommodate the flood of people eager to vote.

To accommodate the flood of new entries, Road Runners capped the number of runners who can qualify by meeting a time standard in a non-Road Runners event, and they will be chosen by lottery.

This year, at a July 29 news conference announcing plans for an annex to accommodate the flood of students wanting to attend P.S. 8, a parade of public officials praised the school and its principal.

It greatly improved subways and buses, offered discounts to ride them, watched as millions more riders flooded in and then had to add more subways and buses to accommodate the flood.

How to accommodate the floods of visitors preoccupies the staff of the Van Gogh Museum.

The prohibition led to an ambitious plan to extend into the sea: a Dubai-style peninsula had been proposed, providing an extra 15 hectares to accommodate the growing flood of flight capital, but Prince Albert blocked the plan in 2008 when the financial crisis hit (though a downsized version of the plan has since returned).

Over a century, the city has learned to accommodate the flash flood of fans because they generally recognize that it brings more than it takes away.

"If we do not change the '08 law and have to accommodate the continuing flood of people coming across the border, the HHS [Health and Human Services] portion of the expenditure is going to skyrocket," Rogers said.

And dams are particularly ill-suited to climate change, which simultaneously requires that they be larger (to accommodate the anticipated floods) and smaller (to be cost-effective during the anticipated droughts).