Sentence examples for handle floods from inspiring English sources

The changes have already encouraged more technology investment and more collaboration by the big exchanges on both sides of the Atlantic.The exchanges are also being pushed to offer greater speed and the capacity to handle floods of orders from computer-generated "algorithmic trading" programs, which are popular with hedge funds.

250 IBM engineers and 50 engineers from Toshiba and Sony are finishing the blueprints for a chip designed to handle floods of multimedia data in a wide variety of devices.

Asking the federal government to respond to a drought is no different than telling FEMA to handle floods, fires and earthquakes.

Its flow is regulated by the 33 m tall Scrivener Dam, designed to handle floods that occur once in 5,000 years.

Mr. Romski said that a heavy-duty, sophisticated drainage system, designed to handle flood surges, was instrumental in mitigating flooding.

Open watercourses handle flooding rains better than buried sewers do, a big consideration as global warming leads to heavier downpours.

The expensive reclamation project is popular in Larchmont, but it is already drawing critics who argue that cities just cannot handle flooding in such a one-off fashion.

The continued confusion raised anxiety in the capital and added to analysts' growing fears that Thailand's performance — and a lack of adequate infrastructure to handle flooding — would lead to a long-term loss of foreign investment.

One of the directive's primary ideas is that an integrated management approach is needed to successfully handle flood risks.

With the proposed framework users can evaluate appropriateness of specific adaptation measures for a particular location and compose effective packages of blue-green measures to handle flooding, drought and heat stress.

The Pankey Branch pumping system, on the east side of town, was built to handle flooding from the Saline River only, and has serious complex watershed technical problems, causing continual water backup within the levee during large rain events.