Sentence examples for modest water from inspiring English sources

Yet modest water storage can hugely improve yields in rain-fed agriculture, by smoothing over short dry spells.

It was no modest water feature, either, but a cascade running green over a lip of black rock and then plunging into foam.

The Dolphin's pool is a three-acre series of oases, punctuated by a 12-foot waterfall, two oversize hot tubs and a modest water slide.

Symmetrically paired with a narrow slope of ivy on the opposite side of the new corner staircase is a modest water feature in the approximate location of the lower part of Sasaki's sculptural fountain: what appears to be a tidy triangle of tilted panels, with a shallow film of water sliding iridescently down them.

These lower alcohols are fully miscible with water, whereas butanol has only a modest water solubility.

As both high WSE and RTI cannot be achieved simultaneously, it is concluded that in order to achieve the most cost-effective and safe solution, systems with both small grey and green tanks are needed, whilst accepting that only relatively modest water saving efficiency targets can be achieved.

He said he hoped to use his remaining months as acting governor to carry out his legislative agenda of increased property tax rebates, modest water-quality improvements and expanded access to health insurance -- poll-tested measures that made up the core of his campaign platform.

Mentioning North Dakota's Heidi Heitkamp, West Virginia's Joe Machin and Montana's Jon Tester, Kornacki writes: None of these senators are particularly eager to go far out on a limb on gun control; especially if the House refuses to take action – or is only willing to take the most modest, watered down steps – don't expect these senators to do much more.

Otherwise, her record since 2005 includes the flops "Rendition" and "Penelope" (both of which topped out around $10 million in the U.S). and the modest success "Water for Elephants," which cost $38 million and earned back $57 million in North America.

Modest or watered down initiatives (city academies, foundation hospitals) were trotted out as demonstrations of the government's unflinching radicalism.As usual, there was not much wrong with the prime minister's analysis.

We followed on the observation that the isopropyl urea 6 showed a modest increase in water solubility (water solubility =2.2 μM) by independent preparation of the heterocyclic and substituted 4-amino-3,5-dimethylisoxazolyl urea 7.