Sentence examples for prevent streets from inspiring English sources

All these public works basically serve to hold or soak up water during extreme rainfall events and slow its release to protect Rotterdam's sewer system from becoming overloaded and to prevent streets and other public areas from flooding.

The snow mounds prevent street parking and deter pedestrians, too.

He can probably prevent street demonstrations from coalescing into anything like the 1989 unrest.

There they joined South African activists working to prevent street violence in Cape Town to perform a peacekeeping ritual inspired by the Maori tradition.

Its heat map feature tells users where crowds of people are forming – taken to its extreme, such a tool could be used by authorities to prevent street protests.

In the end, however, the system is limited by traffic rules, which in Jersey City prevent street-level trains from moving faster than 25 miles per hour.

In that article, "Blocking the Transmission of Violence," Alex wrote about CeaseFire, a program in Chicago in which former criminals — those prison-wise people around the table — try to prevent street violence by whatever (nonviolent) means necessary.

In the early 80s, Tate took a photo of her friend and toddler, cut it into a montage with Thatcher pinching the young mother's purse and sold the result as a greetings card with the slogan: "Prevent street crime".

Egyptian security officials say police have been questioning residents and searching apartments at more than 5,000 homes in central Cairo as a "precautionary measure" to prevent street protests on the upcoming anniversary of the Arab spring uprising on 25 January 2011.

Szabo said the city will try to prevent street encampments from forming again in communities that agree to host the new shelters.

The storms cost the city about $90,000 in overtime expenses for the public works department to block off flooded streets, fill sandbags and prevent street flooding citywide, Mettler said.