Sentence examples for dredging around the from inspiring English sources

After the arbitral ruling secured by the Philippines, observers feared that China might respond with more dredging around the reefs and the construction of airfields.

A drill-rig pounded away nearby, to loosen the rocky bottom, said Nick Ripley, 28, an engineer on the Jay Michael, a tugboat that supports a crane dredging around the clock.

BANGKOK — Fortified by dikes, runoff channels and walls of sand bags, and with workers digging and dredging around the clock, Bangkok appeared on Monday to have withstood the worst of the slow-motion tsunami that has been bearing down on it in recent days from the flooded north.

She used to dredge around and under her dock every two years, she said, until the Army Corps of Engineers, the California Coastal Commission and other groups required strict mitigation.

A 100-metre-high wall with sloping sides of 15 45° could be built across the 5-kilometre fjord in front of Jakobshavn glacier by dredging around 0.1 cubic kilometres of gravel and sand from Greenland's continental shelf (see 'Glacial geoengineering').

There's a lot of dredging around in your youth, which isn't entirely pleasurable".

Created by dredging around 1920, Star Island is, for all its exclusivity, actually a public neighborhood connected to the causeway into South Beach by a bridge.

"They've been dredging the waters around the existing island to raise it to above the 2.1m-mark," says Saleemul Huq, head of the climate-change group at the International Institute for Environment and Development.

The council may vote to allot $100,000 to hire a consultant who will develop a "sampling and analysis plan" to develop a new permit to dredge around piers in Newport Harbor.

Small coastal submarines of the UC class had been able to pass through the channel as early as the morning after the Zeebrugge Raid and German naval engineers were able to dredge channels around the blockages at both ports over the coming weeks.

Nicaragua sent the soldiers there last year when it began dredging a channel around the island in the San Juan river, which marks the border between the two countries.