Sentence examples for prevent avalanches from inspiring English sources

In this regard, there is no doubt that our European solidarity should start with prevention - for example, in connection with protective structures to prevent avalanches, flood defences, mapping and monitoring systems.

A senior Nepalese mountaineering official has suggested placing barriers such as those used in European ski resorts to safeguard holidaymakers, high on Everest to help prevent avalanches like that which killed 16 local guides eight days ago.

He talks lyrically of hill farmers on high mountain pastures, whose grazing herds prevent avalanches and provide jobs in remote villages.Bruno Le Maire, the French farm minister, advances a bolder argument.

"It snowballs on the street, and you try to prevent that avalanche".

Often that is a corporate ploy — a way to prevent an avalanche of follow-up inquiries about online job postings.

There was deep snow on the ground; up on the steep pitched roofs of the Gustavian buildings in his street, men were struggling to prevent mini-avalanches.

The range and depth of "The Arcades Project" presents a challenge for a curator: How to prevent the avalanche of theory from burying the art?

That is Kinnear's moment to intervene with her mop and prevent the avalanche of art from flooding the entire floor.

I've managed to catch everything in my arms, avoiding a noisy clatter on the floor, and I'll just stick it all back now, in a way that will prevent another avalanche.

Colorado goaltender Patrick Roy became the N.H.L. career leader in minutes played, but he couldn't prevent the Avalanche from losing in regulation on the road for the first time this season.

While plenty of Juneau residents are irate that the electric utility, Alaska Electric Light and Power, could not prevent the avalanche damage and then passed on its costs to customers, they have also blamed Ms. Palin for rejecting a request for public money to help residents handle big bill increases.