Sentence examples for held water from inspiring English sources

Soon, prototypes were topped by a distinctive thick plastic bottle that held water under high pressure.

But the kitchen wall that they wished to remove held water pipes and gas lines.

Once you understand which way you're supposed to be running, look back and see if your entries HELD WATER.

Biologists have offered a number of explanations (could they be fertilizing a favourite tree? Are they picking up minerals from the soil to supplement their diet?) but none have quite held water.

"It's essentially a bag for flowers that stands up," a concept that is both humble and unexpected, Granger said, picking up one that held water and a few stems.

In September, Boston-based CAIporate Accountability International, or CAI, sent a letter to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim demanding that its banking arm, International Finance Corp, stop investing in privately held water companies.

A photo showed the riot police repelling demonstrators with a hand-held water cannon.

The North Korean boat ignored five warning broadcasts and sailed more than a mile into South Korean-held water.

Some agriculture groups, including the Agriculture Council of California and Blue Diamond Growers, have rallied against the bills, saying they will drive up costs for already cash-strapped farmers and deny long-held water rights.

Calan Horsman, whose company Loogun makes a hand-held water gun for toilet cleaning, said he was left with stock stuck in China, in default to suppliers and was unable to pay staff after the business account was frozen.

Mel Levine, a commissioner with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and a former member of Congress, noted in particular that Ms. Marcus and the board had worked out a deal in which farmers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta agreed to cut their water use by 25percentt, a once unthinkable compromise of long-held water claims.