Sentence examples for built in the wake from inspiring English sources

Traditionally, West Texas cities have relied heavily on huge surface reservoirs, many built in the wake of earlier droughts.

The plants were built in the wake of the California electricity crisis as a means to take advantage of soaring electricity prices and increased demand.

"Tampa Bay was built in the wake of last-place finishes which gave them access to front-of-the-draft talent," Cashman said.

It was built in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union when the US and Russia, until then bitter rivals, agreed to co-operate over space exploration.

President Barack Obama used his last speech before the United Nations to warn of the severe strains on the international system that the United States built in the wake of World War II.

The first public housing was built in the wake of the Great Depression to provide affordable housing and replace substandard housing in many poor areas.

Combined with a Russian effort over the weekend to rally Central Asian countries to the American side, the announcement provided crucial support to the international coalition that the White House seeks to build in the wake of this month's terrorist attacks.

The former supervisor was known widely for his role in bringing the Dodgers to Los Angeles, for getting a hospital built in Willowbrook in the wake of the Watts riots and for his embrace of Martin Luther King Jr. at a time when many white politicians shunned the civil rights leader.

It's a stunning beginning-to-end account of Lilco's bungled attempt to build a nuclear power plant, and the regulatory agencies that vacillated in setting clear guidelines for completing the partially built plant in the wake of the Three Mile Island fiasco.

But even those inclined to understand the anti-Western feeling that has built up in the wake of Iraq and Afghanistan will be at a loss to explain a crime as brutal as this.

UK TERROR LAWS MAY NEED SCALING BACK UK terror laws built up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on New York and the 7/7 attacks on London should be reviewed and may need to be scaled back, the Guardian reports.