Sentence examples for powerful rivers from inspiring English sources

GUYANESE have long dreamed of harnessing their powerful rivers for hydroelectricity.

The deepest and most powerful rivers for hydroelectric purposes are the Rioni and its tributaries, the Inguri, Kodori, and Bzyb.

Two powerful rivers, the Río Cauca and the Río Magdalena, start in southern Colombia, join to form a vast floodplain, and meander into the Caribbean.

Lake Victoria gives birth to one of the world's most powerful rivers at the city of Jinja, a couple of hours east of the capital, Kampala.

This is the result of the general slant of the North European Plain in a northwesterly direction, which enabled the more powerful rivers of the Baltic drainage area to intercept the glacial streams flowing farther east.

These are what Marina Warner calls in her new history of fairytale, Once Upon a Time, "deep aquifers of story… emerging here and there in waterfalls and powerful rivers".

That's just a part of where I came from, and the river has that same kind of power for me because I grew up on a really large, powerful river.

The effect is that of locks in a powerful river, channeling its flow.

This was the source of the most powerful river in Africa.

The goal of the consumer-finance agency, Mullainathan says, would be to "take the powerful river of competition and make it flow in a direction that benefits people".

To complete his masterpiece, the god sets a boundary around this teeming scene: "the powerful river of Ocean flowing /... along its outermost rim".