Sentence examples for massive locks from inspiring English sources

Designed to link two sides of the historic city, its concrete entry ramps curl around a cylindrical office building before stretching over an underground bus terminal and the massive locks that regulate boat traffic between Lake Malaren and the Baltic Sea.

Whether eradicating deadly diseases like yellow fever, constructing the massive locks and gates that raised and lowered the ships, or disposing of millions of tons of rubble produced by the dynamite and steam shovels that leveled entire mountains, these planners faced down every problem thrown their way, finishing the project ahead of schedule and well under budget.

I asked former Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) senior officer and counter-terrorism expert Michel Juneau-Katsuya whether we should be concerned about the recent extremists' threats to Canada and why he believes that our "front door has four massive locks, but we let the back door open".

Then I got new tyres and had a massive lock-up and I tell you, you couldn't see a thing, the vibrations were so heavy!

He also implied that an Italian sub-contractor, Cimolai, would not deliver a set of massive lock gates if GUPC loses the contract, setting it back by three years.

"Going through Two it was OK and then I had a massive lock-upon the front-left into Four, and after that I had a huge vibration.

Our competitors are all massive lock companies (mostly in Europe)," name-checking Sweden's Assa Abloy as "our number 1 competitor".

We planned our visit to coincide with October 7, when Nueva Jerusalén would be celebrating the 39th anniversary of the vision of the Virgin of the Rosary that resulted in the founding of the town, and took a seven-hour drive from Mexico City that ended at a massive locked red gate at the end of a small road flanked by sugar cane fields.

The upper part, in chest form, with drawers inside, had a fall front (a hinged writing surface that opened by falling forward), often elaborately mounted in wrought iron and backed by velvet, with a massive iron lock.

Earlier in this decade, for example, astronomers spotted a population of very young--under 10 million years old--and very massive stars locked in elliptical orbits around the Milky Way's central black hole (ScienceNOW, 13 October 2005).

The financial industry has even launched a massive lobbying campaign, locking arms with the opposition party, to stand in the way of reforms to prevent another crisis.