Sentence examples for drain streets from inspiring English sources

Miami Beach is spending $400m to raise roads and install pumps to drain streets that experience regularly flooding at high-tide – and to prevent salt water from contaminating fresh water storage inland.

And while the city might not be the mythical Shangri-La — crumbling buildings, rusted-out vehicles, emaciated dogs and impoverished families fill the poorly drained streets — the ancient religions of Hinduism and Buddhism do much to infuse meaning and color into the landscape.

It encourages the reader to think of the practicalities of what goes where, and why, of what should drain (city streets, through porous surfaces into the ground beneath) and what should soak (seaside levels, released from the hydrologic corsets of Victorian planners), of what should be wild and what be tamed.Mr Kohn's book is a richer, harder and more rewarding read than Mr Kahn's.

To upgrade the slums all we need them to do is construct drains, streets and give us water and electricity, build schools for children, a health post, a police station – and that's a community".

On election days, Bangkok's taxi drivers, laborers, housekeepers, street vendors and factory workers head home to Isaan to vote, draining the streets of much of their life.

It is the result, not of some great environmental disaster or mass industrial collapse, but of a series of failed regeneration plans since the 1980s, most recently New Labour's "Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders", that have drained the streets of all life, to make way for promised visions that never arrived.

The incident triggered the killing and demonization of Indian Muslims as vandals raged, brutality reigned and blood drained the streets on December 6 , 1992- a full 57 years after the Indo-Pak partition.

But redevelopment plans are under way for the first time in memory and there are other encouraging signs of revival -- police cars that actually run, sewers that drain the streets, and street signs in vast stretches of the city that had none.

Be aware that it may be illegal in your state to wash your car on a street where the water would drain into the street water drains due to environmental protection laws.

One of the trenches being explored this summer yielded marble slabs of a street, drain pipes and the stone side of a house near the stadium.

Clamber up chains and teeter along pipes, or use a paranormal upgrade to possess a rat and whisk in through a drain: these streets are yours to use how you will.