Sentence examples for like a levee from inspiring English sources

"They assume that if there is some level of protection like a levee or an upstream dam, they're safe.

That dune, which rose more than twenty feet above the water, looked more like a levee than any natural beachscape.

My own view is that the obesigenic elements of modern society are like a flood, and the solution is like a levee.

Fixing everything is like building a levee.

Remember how people came spilling over the walls, like water over a levee, when Chambliss hit the pennant clincher?

Sixty Afghan refugees worked in a dusty warehouse this morning, bent under backbreaking sacks of wheat, toiling like men building a levee against a flood, racing to keep two million fellow Afghans alive.

"The ministerial code has been found to be breached," he said, as if it were like a hurricane battering a levee, a force of nature for which nobody is to blame.

The world economy was showing great resilience until the credit crisis swept into the real economy in fall 2008 like flood waters bursting a levee.

I've argued for some years that Israel's security arrangements in the region were a lot like a New Orleans levee -- they were working for the time being, but some day a tsunami would come and wash out parts of Israel's protection.

Mr. Banavar said that by using various measurements like water pressure, temperature and movement, the system can better predict how much pressure a levee can withstand.

A levee system in New Orleans capable of withstanding a Category 4 hurricane like Katrina is not counted because such storms are fairly rare.