Sentence examples for built to contain from inspiring English sources

Only recently was a fence built to contain the men.

Embankments built to contain the rising waters have been more easily breached as a result.

The system of dikes built to contain the floodwaters is supplemented by a vast network of electric pumping stations.

Next stop: the nuclear plant and "sarcophagus," the concrete-and-steel shell built to contain Reactor No.4's radioactive spew.

According to specialists, channels need to be built to contain the city's 13 rivers, with tunnels to divert floodwater and pumping stations on the northern, seaward side.

Whether this is a major victory for the neighborhood or just a flimsy levee built to contain a rising tide remains to be seen.

There is the wall that, in the Koran, the traveller Dhu'l-Qarneyn is divinely inspired to build, to contain Yajuj and Majuj, or Gog and Magog, those figures or forces of disorder and disbelief.

Following ideas developed by Dr. Spitzer, Dr. Stix built devices to contain plasma, called stellarators, and eventually succeeded in creating high temperatures using the magnetic beach.

(a) The Sediment Retention Structure (SRS) downstream of Mount St. Helens, USA, built specifically to contain potential lahars and eroded sediment (USGS photo by Adam Mosbrucker, 11 Nov 2012); the volcano is visible on the horizon on the left side of the image.

Arrays built to validate the concept contain 16 Ø1.5 mm × 1.5 mm rockets on 200 mm200

Whilst in Turkey he was contracted to build emplacements to contain guns from mothballed battleships in the Dardanelles.