Sentence examples for mains for from inspiring English sources

Giuliani officials said they were first exploring a decommissioned network of water mains for that purpose.

This arrangement is often an advantage in the case of freshwater mains for firefighting or watering ships because they can thus be protected from frost.

But the charger is no heavier than a similar device for a laptop, and the battery can be recharged by plugging into the mains for the long haul home.

They are an artifact of the development of New York's combined sewer system in the 19th century, which integrated smaller mains for wastewater from buildings with larger pipes and sewers for storm water.

Why all the hoopla, when his big idea plugging the car into the mains for recharging seems to some people to be a big step backward Technology Quarterly On the move at last? Waiting for the space elevator Sounds good?

The son of the original Austrian owner runs everything with strict efficiency and the hotel's renowned restaurant (mains for two, from £22 to £44), famed for its moqueca, a rich Bahian seafood stew, is justification alone for checking in.

Red beans and veal parmesan are both solid bets for mains, or for the more adventurous, the trademarked Frenchuletta is a gigantic muffuletta po' boy.

Its special brand of roughneck celluloid energy seems to be somehow activated by Paper Planes' irresistible gun-shot/gun-cock/cash-register-ker-ching hook, in much the same way that Iggy Pop's Lust For Life provided the mains power for British director Danny Boyle's previous big hit, Trainspotting.

Inevitably governments or utilities will be responsible for dealing with sewage delivered by the community to the trunk mains, and for finding a final resting place for rubbish collected by residents' groups.

Intel is also working on a proposed standard for mesh networks over Wi-Fi, and is hoping to revive HomePlug - which carries Ethernet over the mains - for home networking.

Here's one telling nugget from the article: Fugitive methane emissions from distribution mains account for 32 percent of methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas distribution sector.