Sentence examples for floating settlement from inspiring English sources

inviting him to become a pioneer sea colonist on a floating settlement in the South Pacific.

On this, my fourth visit, Makoko is as I've always known it: the tiny "jetty" from which visitors and residents board dugout canoes into the labyrinths of the floating settlement; the grey-black sludge that passes for lagoon water; the tangle of boats impatiently slithering through the labyrinth of waterways, making the traffic of Makoko reminiscent of the notorious Lagos roads.

What began as a chaotic floating human settlement now has basic services including a nursery and primary school.

Her predecessor, Joaquín Almunia, laboured fruitlessly with his investigation for five years, floating three settlements with the US firm that quickly collapsed.

By 2071, humanity has spread to the stars from the floating forest settlements of Venus to terraformed cities on Mars to frigid penal colonies on Pluto.

The introduction of the harmonic component with a high wave number can cause the change of the buckling modes of the tanks under differential settlement, including floating roof tanks and conical roof tanks.

The defense team offered a deal to stave off this possibility, floating the possibility of a settlement of some kind, including a deferred prosecution agreement, which would have meant the corporate equivalent of probation for the Trump Organization.

American officials, for their part, have been quietly floating various ideas on borders, settlements and the rights of Palestinian refugees.

In addition, a simple method to calculate the settlement improvement factor for floating columns is proposed.

That is the essence of the settlement proposal that has been floating around.

The computational code so obtained is then applied to simulating the response of a foundation soil reinforced by a group of floating columns, expressed in terms of load–settlement curves drawn up to the ultimate bearing capacity.