Sentence examples for dam up from inspiring English sources

In a typical Balkan plot within a plot, a United Nations official said that in recent days Serbs had been warning them that the Croats planned to blow the dam up and blame the Serbs for the disaster.

This is an enormous lake that is backed up behind the Mosul dam: up to 11 billion cubic metres of water.

Storing water underground also may reduce the need to dam up rivers, and avoids losing water to evaporation.

Among the dealers, there is concern that the new legal climate -- and especially the appeals court's ruling in the Schultz case -- will unfairly dam up the trade.

Even if they try to dam up the box, the water will still flow, and eventually they give up and move on.

How much longer can systems of government based on personal authoritarian rule, or on the rule of a single party, dam up this rising tide of expectations?Predicting disaster in the Arab world has become something of a cottage industry.

They'll also be able to inspect the dam up-close, explore ancient Sudanese pyramids and Egyptian temples from a hot air balloon, before coming back down to earth in chaotic Cairo.

Damming up the water will be encouraged.

Flowing water is dammed up, deliberately and inadvertently, and pools.

It seems a lot of energy is dammed up artificially.

This inhibition dams up transparency and forces a kind of opacity on the object.