Sentence examples for main drain from inspiring English sources

He proposes nothing, however, to help with child care, the main drain on poor workers' income.

Such nightclubs across Asia were once the main drain for much of the world's brandy and plenty of whiskey.

We also know that the main drain on the Royal Mail's profit base is us subsidising the private mail companies by carrying their mail for them.

Kirch, a privately held conglomerate, has slipped 6.5 billion euros ($5.7 billion) into the red on mounting losses at its Premiere pay-television division -- the main drain on its resources -- and a slump in advertising revenue.

Owner Noel Prosser claimed it was because the main drain in the centre of the village had become blocked.

The main drain in the study area is the Cross River, which experiences variations in water volume with seasons.

Connecticut law requires all pools built after September 2004 to have drain covers designed to keep people from being trapped underwater, at least two main drains and a device that eliminates suction if a drain becomes blocked.

And the water that flushes sewers is literally beyond them (in Dharavi it is actually below them: a sewer lies under the slum, but no one can afford a connection).Only three-fifths of the people of Shanghai live in buildings connected to a sewer, and barely 3% of the inhabitants of Jakarta have access to the main drains.

Six main drains present in and around Faisalabad, Pakistan receiving the textile effluents and surrounding different textile units were selected.

The main pathways of agricultural pollutants (fertilizers, pesticides etc) are three rivers (Louros, Aracthos and Vovos) and three main draining canals (Salaoras, Fidokastrou and Neochoriou).

Our experimental study aimed originally at: 1) measuring argillite Biot's coefficient; 2) identifying the main drained poro-elastic parameters in the stabilized partially-saturated state.