Sentence examples for illegal drilling from inspiring English sources

Recruiting and illegal drilling by the IRA continued, as did intermittent acts of violence.

The government also said it was conducting an investigation into illegal drilling, which could bring huge fines.

The ruling al-Assad family encouraged water-intensive export crops such as cotton, while illegal drilling of irrigation wells dramatically depleted groundwater that might have provided valuable reserves, the report said.

The story lines — involving Nick, Marta, Smoke, their parents, Mrs. Starch, local fire and police investigators, the mysterious stranger and the two hilarious bumblers who run the Red Diamond Energy Corporation's illegal drilling operation — are intertwined in ways that must have required a spreadsheet to track.

Open image in new window Fig. 20 Illegal drilling in Tehran plain.

"You yourself reported illegal drilling in the past," Nowlin said.

But when illegal underwater drilling incites swarms of sharks to converge along the coast and devour beachgoers, it's up to the locals to save the day.

According to WWF's new report, more than 1,000 illegal wells drilled by farmers are accelerating the park's destruction, as drought-resistant plants replace water-dependent ones in the region.

In 1994, in the Winston Cup Series, he reached 14th place before dropping to 24th after being disqualified at the Miller Genuine Draft 400 for illegal holes drilled on the roll cage, a safety violation.

In a nation ranked by the World Bank as one of the poorest in the world, the temptations of this are overwhelming, even though Congolese law makes it illegal to drill in a national park, let alone a World Heritage Site.

Some batters, for their part, have looked for illegal advantage by drilling a hole down the barrel of a bat and filling it with cork or rubber balls; although this procedure lightens the bat, its effect on bat speed and "liveliness" is questionable.