Sentence examples for closed floodgates from inspiring English sources

Some residents have suggested that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Kennedy International Airport, closed floodgates to preserve the runways, leading to flooding of the southwest corner of the Five Towns.

At T0: the pump was switched on, floodgate n°1 closed, floodgate n°2 and n°3 opened; syringe 1 and syringe T0 were plugged in.

But her application arrived in August, after the college had closed the floodgates because of a surge of interest from prospective students.

After the Tiananmen Square massacre, multinational companies partly closed the floodgates of foreign investment in shock and protest, but not for long.

Their report from earlier this year, Closing the Floodgates, demonstrates how international financial markets and tax havens facilitate the stripping of revenues from developing countries as well as rich ones.

For the thousands currently condemned to months away from their ruined homes it is a case of closing the floodgates after the rivers have overflowed.

To close the floodgates, it would seem necessary to argue that this representation was less feasible for intelligent animals, even domesticated ones, than it was for radically impaired human beings.

It is time to close the floodgates on voter suppression efforts.

Tell Congress it's time to close the floodgates on voter suppression efforts.

This fact caused the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to close the floodgates of the Chena River Lakes Flood Control Project at 3 30 a.m. on August 1.

The rainfall caused the Huangpu River to rise to above-normal levels, which prompted officials to close 1,000 floodgates to prevent flooding in Shanghai.