Sentence examples for massive canal from inspiring English sources

With their massive canal and willingness to take the credit for brimmed straw hats from Ecuador, it's difficult to feel anything approaching empathy for the people of Panama.

The park was established in 1934 to protect the quickly vanishing Everglades, and dedicated in 1947 as massive canal building projects were initiated across South Florida.

A massive canal was also constructed 80 feet wide and 6 feet deep through the Caloosahatchee River; whenever the lake rose too high, the excess water left through the canal.

A massive canal 80 feet wide and 6 feet deep was also dug through the Caloosahatchee River; when the lake rose too high, the excess water left through the canal to the Gulf of Mexico.

Olya Melen, of Ukraine, who used the legal system to temporarily halt the construction of a massive canal through the rich wetlands of the Danube Delta.

Garang had an agriculture degree (his thesis was on the massive Jonglei Canal project), which, combined with Machar's solid grasp of business principles and engineering, made them the kind of leaders international entrepreneurs wanted to approach.

In the 1970s upstream dam projects began to reduce water levels; and in the early 1990s Saddam Hussein ordered the construction of massive diversion canals and dams that drained more than 90 percent of the original marshlands.

Like other longtime rulers, he has assumed the mantle of designer in chief, fiddling over details for giant mosques, planning a massive bridge and canal, devising gated communities in the name of civic renewal and economic development.

He talks about plans for a massive new irrigation canal to counteract the receding glaciers; about how the villagers pool their labour to build houses and tend livestock; about his daughter, who, rather than concentrating on his traditional remedies, is studying medecine at university in Delhi; and about how delighted he is to see tourists coming to the village.

The hills in this area are given over to sheep and goats, while the valley below is the scene of intensive mechanised agriculture, crisscrossed by massive concrete irrigation canals.

Pat Brown significantly expanded California's university system; oversaw the construction of more than 1,000 miles of freeway; established the state's first commission to guarantee equal employment opportunities, and was responsible for the creation of that massive system of canals, pipelines and dams that brought water from the rainy north to the parched south.