Sentence examples for removed flood from inspiring English sources

The coalition government cut flood spending as an austerity measure; it scrapped a cabinet flooding committee; and Environment Secretary Owen Paterson removed flood protection from his department's key priorities.

Residents, businesses and council staff faced the task of removing flood water and inch-thick mud from homes, shops and streets after floods hit the county yesterday.

The landowners' association, the CLA, welcomed the suggestion that a post-Brexit farm subsidy regime could include payments for flood prevention, but said it would be a "backward step" to remove flood responsibilities from the Environment Agency.

But it's been high up on mine ever since my wife and I had to battle our mortgage provider to remove flood insurance it had bought for us — and we didn't need — for a condominium we owned in Florida.

But they'd better not remove Flood-It! from the iPhone.

143, 144 The template can be then removed by flood exposure and development (see Figure 25b), enabling a 3D elastomeric PhC.

Among a group of several hundred poor people and hospital patients removed from flooded areas and deposited by rescuers alongside Interstate 10 in an outlying area of the city was a retired mail carrier, Leonard J. Morris, 74, credited for his heroics.

Non-adherent cells were removed by flooding plates with PBS supplemented with 1 m M CaCl2 and 0.5 m M MgCl2.

After about a decade, concerns about the less predictable Big Sioux prompted the construction of a levee, which led the government to reduce the flood risk for another 160 lots — removing the flood insurance requirement and making them easier to sell.

The restoration of the historic wharf in front of the palace opens up vistas of the Thames by removing concrete flood walls.

Environment Agency officials inspected Bewdley Bridge on Wednesday morning and decided to remove the flood barriers.