Sentence examples for multipurpose from inspiring English sources

He is soon to start fund-raising for a €5.5m underground extension, with drawing and video-art galleries, a café-restaurant and, crucially, multipurpose spaces that can be hired out.

The porcine ability to turn waste of almost any description into protein thanks to "a simple gut and multipurpose teeth", which means it can eat almost anything ensured that in the ancient Near East, Anglo-Saxon England and the Americas it was the perfect beast to sustain rapidly growing and colonising populations.Yet the pig's indiscriminate appetite has also been its worst enemy.

His Gal Oya multipurpose scheme to colonize uninhabited areas resettled 250,000 people.

One further reason for the development of adaptable, flexible, and multipurpose theatre spaces has been the pattern of decentralization followed by many Western governments since World War II.

The U.S. Army responded at first with improvisations, such as adding metal caging around the exterior of Stryker vehicles to cause incoming warheads to detonate prematurely, and by adding armour to its fleet of High Mobility, Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs, or Humvees).

The Warsak multipurpose project on the Kābul River, about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Peshawar, provides irrigation for food crops and fruit orchards in the Peshawar valley and is designed to produce 240,000 kilowatts of electricity.

The 1,624-foot- 1,624-foot-) long Taechong multipurpose dam, on a branch of the Kŭm River, was completed in 1980.

These projects include the multipurpose dam near Nam Phong in northeastern Thailand and the hydroelectric dam at Nam Ngum in Laos.

Tools were usually few and often multipurpose: delicate Polish cut-paper designs were often executed with clumsy sheep shears; and in woodwork, chip carving (with ax or hatchet) and notch carving (V-shaped cuts with a knife) were widely used.

The opening of Shanghai to foreign business immediately led to the establishment of major European banks and multipurpose commercial houses.

Forum, in Roman cities in antiquity, multipurpose, centrally located open area that was surrounded by public buildings and colonnades and that served as a public gathering place.