Sentence examples for off the dam from inspiring English sources
Destabilising Nangarhar, goes the theory, would put off the dam building.There is also the murky question of American involvement.
The reactions of Virgil's parents to his reappearance are reminiscent of old Monsieur Costa from series one, who responded to the return of Madame Costa by burning his house down – with her in it – and flinging himself off the dam.
The Kayapó leader Raoni Metuktire, who gained international exposure in the 1980s and 1990s touring the world with Sting, said indigenous men from the Xingu were preparing their bows and arrows in order to fight off the dam.
Franklin Roosevelt and his fellow Democrats tried hard to keep Herbert Hoover's name off the dam that had been started on his watch.
The controlled release of water was intended to take pressure off the dam, but was not expected to substantially raise the level of the river.
Iraqi officials were publicly skeptical, but, under pressure from the Americans, they agreed to lower the maximum depth of the reservoir by about thirty feet, to take pressure off the dam wall.
Take the road down off of the dam and travel towards Nashua.
Mr. Nour proposed exploiting political rivalries in Ethiopian society as a cost-effective way to fend off the danger of the dam.
To solve this problem, Reclamation shuts off operations of the dam's hydroelectric power plant when water levels are drastically low, but this results in power shortages.
Key transport links that previously allowed the local community access to basic health and education resources have also been blocked off by the building of the dam.
The on-off initial public offering of the dam's shareholder vehicle, China Yangzi Power, has added yet more uncertainty.The reforms have long been needed.
