Sentence examples for anticipated flood from inspiring English sources

Across from commission headquarters, in Rockville, Md., workers are now digging a foundation for a $131 million, 14-story office tower for 1,500 employees to handle an anticipated flood of applications.

The Starent acquisition will help Cisco products manage an anticipated flood of traffic over mobile networks.

They also opened special e-mail accounts to take in an anticipated flood of public comments.

But, while the hedge-fund and insider-trading crackdowns continued energetically, the anticipated flood of financial-crisis cases never materialized.

Because there was only one chef working, the hotel apologized in advance for not being able to fulfill the anticipated flood of room-service orders.

Mr. Annan also urged greater intensity in preparations for an anticipated flood of Afghans fleeing their homes in fear of American retaliatory strikes.

It's hard to say which is more scandalous, that the authority's planners hadn't anticipated flooding at a station on the water's edge, or that subway fare increases will partly go to pay for their shortsightedness.

Copenhagen in 2050 will also feature smaller streets with plenty of trees, which will slow anticipated flooding "so not everything comes bursting into the cloudburst boulevards at the same time", Leonardsen explains.

Several problems became harder to solve than anticipated: flooding in the basement; the elevator pit needed to be dug into bedrock; and termite damage required demolishing all walls and reinforcing sagging floors.

Added to risk is uncertainty, i.e., the disruptions that can't be anticipated (floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, plagues, assassinations, wars and so forth).

A result of this contradiction is that for sufficiently small exceedance probabilities the unbounded distributions anticipate flood magnitudes which are impossibly large.