Sentence examples for built to contain the 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.

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.

The heavy outflows of mud and water caused the earth level to drop, and a dike that had been built to contain the mud collapsed, officials said, creating pressure that ruptured the pipeline.

Construction workers were pouring concrete on the fifth floor of a new building on 57th Street, the department said, when a frame built to contain the concrete collapsed around 11 30 a.m.

The Economist was a strong supporter of the invasion (see here, for example), not because we thought Saddam Hussein had anything at all to do with 9/11 but because we were afraid that he was going to break out of the box that was built to contain him after the Gulf war of 1991, with hugely dangerous consequences for the region.

A16 Chernobyl's Safety Disputed Days before the 17th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Russia and Ukraine disagreed over whether a concrete enclosure built to contain radiation from the exploded reactor building was leaking and in danger of collapse.

The international human rights framework was therefore built to contain covenants (or conventions) that carry the weight of international law.

Leading a guerilla insurgency on the ring's surface, the humans discover that the rings are actually weapons of last resort built to contain a terrifying parasite called the Flood.

In a secure laboratory built to contain harmful pathogens, Fouchier took the H5N1 bird flu virus and mutated it, through some worryingly simple steps, into an airborne strain that spread swiftly among ferrets in neighbouring cages.