Sentence examples for pump abandoned from inspiring English sources

Sustainability has always been the weak point of development work, whose symbol might well be the lonely water pump, abandoned for lack of a $3 part.

With traffic lights out of action and petrol stations unable to pump, motorists abandoned their vehicles and added to the gridlock that ruled the roads.

Now based in San Francisco, the company designs solar energy hotspots using repurposed materials like old gas station pumps and abandoned pay phone booths.

Billions of cubic meters of contaminated water soon will be sitting untended, with no active pumping, in abandoned ponds adjacent to the Athabasca River".

Drive 5km down the rough, steep track and park at the abandoned pump house or drive up steep hill for 200m and park.

This is because when the mining companies left, they shut off the pumps that kept abandoned shafts from filling with groundwater.

Over the years most of these wind pumps have been abandoned and left to deteriorate.

Philosophy cum conceptual analysis and intuition-pumping should be abandoned in favor of empirical science; philosophy is simply the more abstract and reflective part of empirical science and lays claim to no distinctive methods or body of knowledge.

As the day inched to 57F, the hunters stopped at a bridge near an abandoned control pump.

The best solution, he said, is to pump cement into the abandoned shafts, an operation that would cost at least $300m and take more than a year.

The letter cited the decision last year by the mine's owner, the Barrick Gold Corporation of Canada, to stop pumping water from the abandoned mine, citing cost pressures.