Sentence examples for become impounded from inspiring English sources

Among the five taxa that were most sensitive to flooding were slow-growing habitat specialists; such species will likely experience declines in areas that become impounded or experience greater volumes of runoff.

And over the next week, as the election goes forward and the uncounted votes are indeed impounded, it becomes clear that the university has no interest in retracting its appeal.

When a war breaks out back home while he's in transit, Viktor has his return ticket and passport impounded and becomes trapped in the international travel lounge of New York's Kennedy airport because he can't be given a visa to enter the States and is unable to return.

If no recycling agreement is reached, officials said, the issue could become a battleground of lawsuits and impounded funds.

Or get your car impounded.

That it was a grave error of judgment became obvious on July 25th when magistrates impounded BPI's shares (and those belonging to close allies) in Antonveneta.

Dominy had risen to become U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation, the agency in the Department of the Interior which impounds water for as much as two hundred miles behind such constructions as Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, Flaming Gorge Dam, Hoover Dam.

Life becomes even more precarious after the woman gives birth and the family fishing boat is impounded when Filippo and Ernesto try to use it to take their student guests on a pleasure trip (for which they do not have a license).

Pistia has become an unwelcome invader of Lake Kariba, the body of water formed by the impounding (1959) of the Zambezi River in the Kariba Gorge.

The war became a war of the poor against the rich; the ranches of the wealthy were raided, shipments of yerba mate were impounded, and cattle were stolen.

The Port Authority impounded the bus.