Sentence examples for on floodgates from inspiring English sources

Then read this story on floodgates in Connecticut, a proposal for inflatable subway-stoppers and this Room for Debate feature.

At T0: the pump was switched on, floodgate n°1 closed, floodgate n°2 and n°3 opened; syringe 1 and syringe T0 were plugged in.

The storm surge forced the closing of floodgates on drainage canals in the city, and people in coastal communities at its suburban edge were ordered to evacuate.

You will have come this way at the end of the previous campaign level, so it isn't far from where you start on Floodgate.

Though the ruling spotlighted many missteps by the corps over the years, it made little of other possible factors, including culpability of former local officials overseeing levees and drainage, and particularly their rejection of the corps's original plan for floodgates on the drainage canals that so devastated the city.

Before you all set your bulldogs on me and start yawning on about "floodgates" and "scroungers" and "rivers of Garam Masala," see if you can answer some of the following.

ATLANTA — Floodwater that is moving slower than anticipated and a conservative hand on the floodgates is easing some of the concern in a nervous Louisiana.

The gradual opening was intended both to prevent scouring on the floodgates and to give people and animals time to get out of the way, which they are doing up and down the river.

Advances in imaging technology in the beginning of the twenty-first century have opened the proverbial floodgates on the availability of high-veracity information on structure and functionality.

Facebook is reportedly planning on creating an unfiltered News Feed, which would open the floodgates on the entire stream of things shared (right now the feed is algorithmically filtered by things like how close you are to the person who shared it, recency and intentional actions like Likes).

>> And the geo stuff is basically that's going to really turn on the floodgate of data.