Open or in-filled trenches have commonly been used as wave barriers in reducing unwanted vibrations.
Maybe it's the economy, or the insinuating presence of terrorists (who, with the introduction of explosive underpants, have added custom tailoring to their ghastly r?m?. Maybe it's the creeping dread that's going around like a variant of H1N1. Designers were hunkered down. They were in the trenches -- or in trench coats, anyway.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — As many as 200,000 civilians are trapped in a war zone in northern Sri Lanka, sleeping in the open or hiding in trenches as food, water and medical supplies run out and artillery shells explode among them, relief agencies said Thursday.
Here a carbon sequestration strategy is proposed in which certain dead or live trees are harvested via collection or selective cutting, then buried in trenches or stowed away in above-ground shelters.
The dried uranium byproduct material or tailings are then placed in trenches or other disposal areas and immediately covered to limit emissions consistent with applicable Federal standards.
With problem aquatic plants, first dry them out, then burn, compost or bury them in trenches in the garden.
In the utility world, this translates to men and women literally making life or death decisions in trenches and in power plants.
From Tintagel to Scara Brae, poring in some leaking site hut over 1,000 virtually indistinguishable scraps of grubby pottery, or slopping about in trenches turned into mud soup by this glorious midsummer, that wheezy sound is the nation's archaeologists laughing their clay-covered socks off.
As well as providing a bulk of material for the compost heap, comfrey can be used as a mulch around plants, or can be placed in trenches before planting potatoes or sowing peas, beans etc.
Closed loop tubing can be installed horizontally as a loop field in trenches or vertically as a series of long U-shapes in wells.
