Sentence examples for building drain from inspiring English sources

Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said closing prisons and reducing prison numbers "offers major social and economic gains" but warned it "would be a gigantic mistake if the justice secretary were to revive the discredited idea of titans and pour taxpayers' money down the prison building drain" instead of investing in crime prevention, healthcare and community solutions to crime.

"Building drains is hard and time-consuming, particularly in established cities," he said.

The remodeling left the building drained of much of its original vitality — it resembles a torture victim who has just been released from a session on the rack, attenuated at the top and bottom.

"You can and should modernise the prison system without throwing taxpayers' money down the prison-building drain," she said.

Prison Reform Trust director Juliet Lyon said: "With crime falling and community sentences and treatment to tackle addictions working to reduce reoffending, it would be a gigantic mistake to pour taxpayers' money down a super-sized, big brother prison-building drain.

In many ways the island is like a toy village, its real buildings drained of function and population.

All the sewage from the new buildings drained downhill, into the Gowanus.

Learn about your building's drain pipes.

Floor drains remove surface fluids and provide a physical barrier between building drainage and the sewer.

The building's drains and sewers backed up, adding to the inflow of river water.

But in the 1960s planners added ugly shopping centres, offices and even college buildings that drain the beauty from the city centre.