Sentence examples for flood protective from inspiring English sources

Finally, the students identified the flood protective measures that are needed, such as protecting and promoting riparian forests.

However, they assert that flood experience is a significant driver of flood protective behaviours.

This finding supports Reynaud et al. (2013) that the socio-economic variables characterizing households play only a minor role in flood protective behaviours.

Reynaud et al. (2013) stress that the socio-economic variables characterizing households play only a minor role in flood protective behaviours.

Higher and more expansive flood protection levees were developed, which compensated albeit intermittently for the loss of the protective fringe of coastal wetlands.

But Machiavelli makes clear, in a wonderful metaphor contrasting an uncontrollable flood with protective measures that can be taken in anticipation of a flood, that we are not helpless at the hands of bad luck.

And now, some people are using the high waters from North Dakota to New Orleans to revisit longstanding questions about whether the very government programs designed to safeguard people from floods, including protective measures like dams and levees and recovery programs like flood insurance and disaster assistance, actually encourage them to take unnecessary chances.

Nearby, the sheltered tributary towards Dairymill would have been a haven for river traffic, centuries before the construction of protective flood banks that cut it off from the main channel and restricted the flow of salty water up the narrow creek.

Here, very properly, Mr. Vickers surrendered to the brutality of his character -- but not at the expense of the protective, flooding tenderness he feels for his conniving mistress.

Zoar Village in Ohio, a historic town vulnerable to flooding if a protective levee is removed; and the Ellis Island Hospital Complex in New York, part of the original gateway to America for millions of immigrants, which is deteriorating.

Dr Salk announced at Ann Arbor, in his account of the vaccine's action, that after much trial and error this was the most effective interval in which to flood the bloodstream with protective antibodies.