Sentence examples for foul river from inspiring English sources

The Pistorius trial, Gevisser writes, "coursed through the electoral season like a foul river carrying the country's legacies of fear and violence on its currents".

Like a foul river, bringing pestilence, the killing in the bathroom both enacted and drew to the surface of the national psyche its deepest racial fears.

New subway lines and highways were due to open in two years; plans to clean up the foul-smelling river nearby were under way.

There are no wastewater treatment plants and sewer systems are inadequate: even a moderate rainfall turns the streets into foul rivers.

Environmentalists accuse Tyson and other big processors of operating giant factory farm operations that foul rivers, streams and other water supplies.

Similarly, when the bureaucracy finally gets around to using its existing statutory authority to regulate industrial farmers who foul rivers with animal waste, it will be because some chief executive has ordered it to.

Their actual reason for opposing SB 1 is more likely that they were looking forward to the kind of deregulation that would make it easier for them to foul rivers and streams, divert water and take other actions that could harm birds, fish and other animals.

Frack waste has triggered earthquakes from Ohio to Oklahoma, and fouled rivers in Pennsylvania to North Dakota – and now the Obama administration is being sued by environmental groups to crack down on the industry.

But it was not a day for politicans or corporations, though many of them embraced the common good with solemn pronouncements upon polluted air and oceans, fouled rivers and beaches, the perils of acid rain and tropical deforestation, toxic wastes and mountains of garbage.

These guys cruise around the sewers in barges atop a foul brown river looking for accumulated "shit dams" that could clog the ancient system.

Gone are petroleum hydrocarbons and lead in the soil, drifts of trash and broken glass and deteriorating buildings from a former industrial period that once fouled the river's edge.