Sentence examples for dike from inspiring English sources

One could argue back that the collapse of the dike was by no means a foregone conclusion, or that it wouldn't have been that disastrous, or that by plugging one hole in the dike, the rest of the dike has become weaker, or some other metaphorically compatible counterargument.

And all the foolish people who live behind the dike were saved from the error of their ways.The message, of course, was: lay of, Mr Buiter, or we'll drown your home country.

In this kindler, gentler version, the little Dutch boy, somewhat desperate and very worried about the horrors of the flood, stuck his finger in the dike and held it there until help arrived.

Mr. Blinder brought his point home to the crowd with a tale of a little Dutch boy (Mr. Buiter was born in the Netherlands), entertaining the crowd of international central bankers, academics and Wall Street economists: One day a little Dutch boy was walking home when he noticed a small leak in a dike that protected the people in the surrounding town.

Before he arrived, the dike burst and everyone for miles around drowned, including the little Dutch boy.

"The companies that built this dike did a terrible job," the boy said.

Bernanke, working closely with Henry Hank Paulsonon, the Treasury Secretary, a voluble former investment banker, was determined to keep the financial sector operating long enough so that it could repair itself — a policy that he and his Fed colleagues referred to as the "finger-in-the-dike" strategy.

Bernanke still believed that his finger-in-the-dike strategy was working.

Whatever the merits of saving A.I.G., many financial experts agree that the Bush Administration's policy of buying more time for the financial industry to fix itself (at the Fed, this is known as the "finger-in-the-dike strategy") needs supplementing with a direct attack on the slumping property market — the source of all the losses.

Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsMrs Merkel holds out the prophecy of a political union.

THE Delta Works are a series of dams, sluices and dikes built in the second half of the 20th century to protect the lowest-lying parts of the Netherlands from the sea.