Sentence examples for key dams from inspiring English sources

They believed the best way to do this was to hit four key dams and deliver a knock-out blow.

(In addition to oil fields, ISIS has seized key dams and is moving on others).

Rainfall this past year to a key dam in Northern Taiwan has been at its lowest level in at least 40 years, and flat-panel manufacture involves large amounts of water.

Outcome measures were the availability of: (1) 24-h in-house back-up; (2) key DAM resources, including a supraglottic airway device (SGA), a dedicated DAM cart, surgical airway devices, and neuromuscular blocking agents; (3) anesthesiology rotation as part of an airway training program; and (4) the routine use of capnometry to verify tube placement.

Finally, the influences of several key factors (e.g., dam height, dam width, dam erodibility) on cascading dam breaching are analyzed to identify the critical conditions of overlapping effect in breaching floods.

In recent days, Kurdish fighters, back by US air strikes have engaged in a battle for control of the key strategic Mosul dam.

The vertical compressive stress on the dam upstream surface was the key for improving the dam safety, and additional studies were necessary to further quantify the permissible stress.

The mechanical behaviour of dam-foundation joints plays a key role in concrete dam engineering since it is the weakest part of the structure and therefore the evolutionary crack process occurring along this joint determines the global load-bearing capacity.

The Soviet troops were orderly in configuring their minefields, forming broad protective arcs around key roads, cities and dams.

Shasta, Keswick, and Oroville dams are key features of the Central Valley and Feather River irrigation and power projects, which serve southern portions of the state.

Static ice loads (ice actions) are a key design parameter for dams in cold climates.