Sentence examples for river building from inspiring English sources

For millennia, it had been a battle between the river building land and the gulf taking it back.

To the fury of both state and federal governments, Mr Amte campaigned against these projects, rubbishing the official cost-benefit analyses and blocking main roads with his supporters.From 1990 he went to live by the Narmada, the most threatened river, building another ashram from scratch on stony, empty ground.

Since the Wandle Trust (whose chair of trustees is Theo Pike) was founded in 2000, mostly by local anglers, it has been pulling rubbish out of the river, building structures that change its shape and flow, negotiating with people whose outflows affect it, and restocking it with fish.

Beavers can also be found along the river, building small dams along the river.

I am nurtured by memories of riding with my grandfather on his tractor and cooling off in the river, building my dream house and performing some of the best math of my career at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

One benefit of the greenway plan is that it would bring thousands of cyclists and pedestrians up to the edge of the river, building a constituency for further improvements.

Efforts to ameliorate flooding have historically centred on engineered solutions such as dredging rivers, building levees, and constructing spillways.

Hundreds of thousands of volunteers, soldiers and employees of New Deal job-relief programs were deployed along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, building emergency levees and aiding displaced residents.

They crossed the Irish Sea and found ideal havens by streams and small rivers, building houses, growing their own vegetables and their own marijuana, and, he had been told on good authority, taking up wife-swapping.

The corps, a Pentagon organization with 35,000 civilian employees, is basically the nation's master builder, a giant engineering firm devoted to straightening rivers, building canals and levees, managing dams, dredging harbors and replenishing beaches.

Other landlords, like Rockrose Development, which manages the River Rose building in the complex, have offered apartments in other buildings they manage.