Sentence examples for bayou from inspiring English sources
noun
A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
Two of the dead in Houston were found in their cars and another two were found in a bayou.
And it will take more than home-made billboards on bayou byways to get the cheerier message out.
That may be all that is now left of the $440m in assets that Bayou claimed earlier this year.In this section Aspirations and obligations Genesis A home-grown problem Bullish Baer In the garden of good and evil A new frontier Hard-landing heresy ReprintsIn July, Mr Israel told investors that he was winding up the funds and would return their money.
By 1998 Bayou was already lying about its results, allege federal gumshoes.In 2004, perhaps trying to shore up the funds' assets, Mr Israel consigned a chunk of investors' money to private-placement programmes that were supposed to produce returns of up to 100% a week.
As in the Everglades, the Louisiana bayou could not absorb the storm surge in part because its natural environment had been degraded by flood-control measures and housing, and could no longer act like a sponge.The Everglades project is a test of whether it is possible to restore a whole ecosystem, while still allowing cities to keep on growing nearby.
THE world abounds in sandwiches, but in your correspondent's view there are only three truly great ones: the Vietnamese banh mi, the Ashkenazi bagel with lox and the oyster po' boy a New Orleans creation that has seeped outward from the bayou with varying degrees of success (ordering one in Mobile or Galveston is probably fine; order one in Boston at your own risk).
Even her jauntiest bayou-country compositions have a sadness in their wisdom.
Only the company logos on the huge tanks distinguish one facility from the next.On the Louisiana side of Johnson Bayou, at the boundary with Texas, stands Cheniere's Sabine Pass LNG facility.
The complaint filed against Bayou Management on September 1st by American federal prosecutors alleges fraud and seeks to return what cash can be recovered to investors in this troubled group of hedge funds.
The top 50 hedge-fund managers earned a combined $29 billion.The co-founder of Bayou Management, a bankrupt hedge fund, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for defrauding investors and ordered to pay $300m in restitution, one of the most severe sentences ever handed down in America for white-collar crime.
Fraud at another hedge fund, Bayou Group, exposed in 2005, prompted investors to withdraw cash from Mr Madoff and left him $92m short.
