Sentence examples for avoid flood from inspiring English sources

Its 1805 house, built on pillars to avoid flood damage, had also fallen on hard times, but its current owners, Norman and Sand Marmillion, engaged in extensive detective work.

John Krebs, who chairs the adaptation sub-committee of the climate change committee, estimates a £500m shortfall in spending over the four years to 2015, if we are to avoid flood risk increasing over time.

With breathtaking condescension, Roy wrote: "It is no more reasonable to expect the people of Aids-ravaged areas to enter into formal unions than it is to argue that Bangladeshis on the Ganges delta could avoid flood and famine by migrating to higher ground".

The council has urged people to avoid flood water.

Similarly, the Department of Homeland Security's disaster readiness website warns to "avoid flood water as it may be electrically charged from underground or downed power lines".

The ambush may include leaping into water after prey, as a jaguar is quite capable of carrying a large kill while swimming; its strength is such that carcasses as large as a heifer can be hauled up a tree to avoid flood levels.

But you should spend what you have to spend to avoid flooding.

"If we are to avoid flooding, we have to be proactive".

They now offer discounts on house insurance for homeowners, who have taken steps to avoid flooding of their properties.

REDD should be allowed in the carbon credit market with a quota to avoid flooding the market.

They are trying to figure out how to avoid flooding the market they once fought to build in.