Sentence examples for flood bank from inspiring English sources

The government already provides flood, bank and crop insurance.

"What was happening was the badgers behind the flood defence were burrowing and weakening the flood bank, so we put in a concrete bank, but they burrowed under that.

"There has been some discussion whether this is still a problem and we've done examinations of the flood bank - and because of the recent heavy rainfall we had in November, we're investigating whether the bank has been displaced by that - but we are not aware the badger problem has struck again".

On one blog, they called on people to visit two Web addresses that would cause their computers to flood banks with hundreds of data requests a second.

Turfed flood banking extends from beyond Foulshaw Moss in the west and as far as the outfall of the river Bela to the east.

A few days later another reader wrote to me, warning that "upstream flood banks now protect crops, not the city of York".

Structural suggestions from government officials included the Nilwala Project, improved drainage and irrigation systems, building houses in safer areas, and renovating flood banks.

A number of methods of protecting trees from being gnawed and felled have proved successful, preventing flooding, but the impact of the animals have had by burrowing into flood banks and damming drainage ditches has proved more difficult to manage.

By 1997 the main channel had shifted to the eastern side of the fan following a further avulsion and the re-occupation of palaeo-channels, triggered in part by further repairs of the flood banks on the west side of the fan but mainly in response to natural processes.

Below the lock, the surrounding land is almost at sea level, and the river is constrained by flood banks on both sides.

Euro-area central banks are also leaning heavily on their biggest banks to keep supporting the smallest with interbank loans.An area of particular vulnerability, the "nightmare scenario" in the words of one banker, is that the trickle of deposits leaking from banks in peripheral countries turns into a full-flood bank run.