Sentence examples for down the dam from inspiring English sources

Within the next few months, the Army Corps of Engineers will invite the public to comment on a proposal to tear down the dam and its adjoining concrete walls and get the river's waters flowing again, even if the idea may not sit well with some old-time Stamford residents.

Jackson, listed at 6-1 but actually about 5-11, and Bibby hope they can find enough room to make a few holes in the dike and eventually bring down the dam, as impenetrable as the Lakers have been for almost three years.

An unprecedented drought threatens to shut down the dam's power production, which supplies nearly half the nation's electricity.

(Mr. Spiegel recalls seeing a South Plainfield backhoe knocking down the dam every day for two weeks, and finding it rebuilt every morning).

President Bill Clinton persuaded Congress to provide the money to tear down the dams.

Critics of that plan say that tearing down the dams will not save the fish and will harm the region's economy.

"Getting the necessary state and federal permits to take down the dams on the Yantic River could be a prolonged and onerous process," said Wesley Marsh, a supervisory environmental analyst for the State Department of Environmental Protection's dam safety division.

Senator Slade Gorton, a Washington Republican who is running for re-election this year, said taking down the dams would be "an unmitigated disaster and an economic nightmare" for the region.

His ideas that once seemed so radical -- excluding cars from national parks, preserving wild places intact, reintroducing predators to our depleted ecosystems, taking down the dams that have killed off our rivers -- now seem prophetic.

"And if we just tore down the dams, all the fish would be happy and healthy".

Watch this inspiring video of OrcaSing when the J, K, and L pods actually joine their vocalizations with the human choir--and take a moment to sign the petition to bring down the dams and feed the orcas.