Sentence examples for on levee from inspiring English sources

People huddled on levee waiting for ride out.

The developers spent more than $35 million on levee and storm drainage improvements, replacing an old levee that had offered protection against a 100-year flood with a levee that met the standards for a 500-year flood.

A16 Governor Faces Tough Critics While struggling to rebuild a shattered state, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana, who has been mocked as weepy and indecisive by radio talk show hosts and snubbed by the White House, which did not invite her to a recent announcement on levee protection, is also working to repair her wounded reputation.

When Toledo accidentally steps on Levee's new shoes — those totems of mobility and promise — Levee stabs him in the back, only then to be haunted by Toledo's vision.

The richness of native plant species was about 25% greater on levee transects than on control grassland transects.

Twenty-six months after Katrina, as utilities and communications were re-established and work on levee protection was underway, business owners focus turned away from these larger infrastructure issues to those affecting their day-to-day operations.

Jerry Treacy, a radio host of an Americana-style music program called "Crash on the Levee" on Saturdays on WFDU-FM (89.1), said that he was impressed by Mr. Martin's first album, "Division Street," released in 1997.

Examples abound: Depending on levees that could not protect New Orleans.

The administration is requesting $5.8 billion to complete work on levees and flood walls in the New Orleans area.

The Army Corps of Engineers has relied too much on levees instead of retention reservoirs and less environmentally destructive means of flood reduction like reforestation or erosion control.

A tenacious few continue to live in squalor on levees, grazing buffalo and gathering reeds in the remnants of marsh.Occupation by America and Britain has generated hopes of a reprieve.