Sentence examples for construct a dam from inspiring English sources

India wants to construct a dam to make the Jhelum navigable in the dry season.

The Army Corps of Engineers moved his remains and those of hundreds of Senecas buried near him in order to construct a dam on the Allegheny River.

Under the accord Hungary, which was forced to make concessions because of a ruling by the International Court at the Hague, is to construct a dam either at Nagymaros or Pilismarot, probably within eight years.

When she was 17 she was arrested and imprisoned for several days for taking part in a non-violent protest over a project to construct a dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania to generate hydroelectricity.

I couldn't electrify the country or construct a dam or build houses or clear a road or run a television station or design an urban water system or tend to the sick or improve the sanitation system or revitalize the economy or cancel the debt.

But a dispute in 1979 over a Norwegian plan to construct a dam on the Alta River 100 miles north of here that would inundate the Sami town of Masi and lay roads through prime reindeer grazing and calving areas made them suddenly aggressive.

At that time the defendants constructed a dam across the creek for their own purposes.

In 2000 Jordan and Syria secured funding for constructing a dam on the Yarmūk River that, in addition to storing water for Jordan, would also generate electricity for Syria.

Due to the shortage of rain, the large evaporation rate and the lack of appropriate watershed, constructing a dam is not an appropriate way to supply water to this village.

For instance, in CRT16 students are asked to consider a scenario in which results of a geotechnical analyses indicate that there is serious slope failure risk, but with low probability of occurrence, before constructing a dam to be built above a village.

In 1914, the Benton Water Supply Company constructed a dam on West Creek upstream of Benton.