Sentence examples for pipes rather than from inspiring English sources

The current drainage system dates from the 1950s and is based on a Soviet design, which relies on pipes rather than sewers.

There have been conflicting reports as to whether the blowout preventer worked partially — perhaps crimping one of the pipes rather than shearing it.

The current drainage system dates from the 1950s and is based on a Soviet design, which relies on pipes rather than sewers to direct excess water.

But in Hong Kong, where the protests were a sideshow, analysts said PetroChina was handicapped by the market's indifference to companies that deliver their product through steel pipes rather than digital ones.

The 25-minute flight was made using a specially designed, smaller than usual balloon that meant Trifanov had to sit on two gas cylinders framed by iron pipes rather than inside a traditional basket.

When Shell was challenged about leaky above-ground pipe-lines that were responsible for much of the pollution, it should have buried the pipes, rather than "just pointing out that they were OK when they were installed".On Brent Spar, he thinks Shell had no excuses for the protests it brought down on itself.

It feels as if the studios have started to neglect the Christmas children's market, happy to fling endless sequels down the pipe rather than develop original material.

He conceived of the so-called sidecar design — wherein the bowl is affixed to the side of the pipe, rather than the top — while he and his wife were spending the night in a friend's waterbed.

The idea of flow chemistry is to perform the chemical reactions in a narrow pipe rather than a large pot, thereby greatly increasing the volume of the mixture that is exposed to light.

Uncoordinated Incentives and Sub-Optimization In business, if an enterprise creates incentives within organizational "stove-pipes" rather than across the whole, the overall optimization of the enterprise and its elements suffers.

Alternatively replace the spigot and wet riser with a yard hydrant which consists of a spigot and pre-attached pipe riser having a rod that operates the valve at the base of the pipe rather than in the spigot itself.