Sentence examples for barrage was built from inspiring English sources

The Sukkur Barrage was built in 1932 and is about 1 mile (1.6 km) long.

As a result, the Hindīyah Barrage was built on the Euphrates River, near the site of ancient Babylon, and 3,500,000 acres were brought under irrigation.

The rivers flow far less than before the barrage was built, and it is getting worse every year," says Humayun Kabir, of Noapara, where a large river is now a small backwater and 6 metres (20ft) of silt has been deposited across thousands of hectares.

If the barrage is built, what is the likely impact on Slimbridge and its live, flowing waters?

Large numbers of posts, from which machine-guns were to fire an "overhead barrage" were built and protective pits were dug for mules, which were to carry loads of 2,000 rounds of ammunition to advanced troops.

These drillings were arranged in a vertical plane in the cross section where the barrage later was built.

But the success of that team was built on an unsustainable barrage of three-point shooting that was snuffed out in the playoffs by the first tough defense it encountered.

The Government's official green advisers, the Sustainable Development Commission, thinks the barrage should be built if it can pass two tests: that new wildlife habitats can be created to compensate for those lost and that the project remains in public ownership.

After 20 years of argument, a mobile barrage is being built to protect the city from tidal surges, but a 2010 Unesco report warned that the mean tide was already a foot above the 20th-century average, and "the sea level will eventually rise to a value that will not be sustainable for the lagoon and its old city".

Downstream the Rhine flows swiftly between the Alpine foreland and the Black Forest region, its course interrupted by rapids, where as at Laufenburg Switzerlandd) and Säckingen and Schwörstadt (Germany)—barrages (dams) have been built.

In India a number of dams, barrages, and link canals have been built to distribute water from the eastern Indus tributaries to the Punjab and neighbouring states.