Sentence examples for erect dams from inspiring English sources

Your job, as captain of your soul, is to erect dams to keep these passions in check.

Their purpose is to get the permission of the villagers to erect a dam.

After opening the floodgates a decade ago by allowing the combination of investment banking and commercial banking, Washington now wants to erect a dam.

Sometime before 1917, the Ashland Cotton Company erected a dam on the site and created the 145 acre reservoir; the dam was used to generate electrical power for its mills in Jewett City.

The borough's landscape was shaped by the Natural Ice Company, which erected a dam across Stony Brook in 1894, expanding Watchung Lake tenfold, to 22 acres.

Sometime before 1917, the Ashland Cotton Company erected a dam on the site and created a 145 acre reservoir.

The government used bulldozers to erect an earth dam to block contaminated water.

That even the sturdiest dams erected by parents can occasionally spring holes was obvious as Phyllis Blackman shopped for gospel records at Record Town in the Westland Mall with her 16-year-old daughter, La Toya Hamilton.

But it turns out hydropower isn't quite so squeaky clean and with countries around the world poised to erect hundreds of new dams, that could have big implications for future emissions.

In 1999, engineers began erecting a series of dams and locks that transformed the ditch into a bona fide waterway.

Also supported by UNICEF small dams were erected in several underground karst caves to feed diesel generator-driven pumping systems.