Sentence examples for river catching from inspiring English sources

Without dramatic events like river catching fire or smog enveloping cities, it is easier for Americans to take a clean environment for granted and consider the environment a low-priority issue.

"The river catching fire brought national attention and ridicule to Cleveland, but it also proved to be the instrumental rallying point in the passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972," said Steven R. Davis, the Cuyahoga's newly appointed navigator.

One reason it received national attention, including a prominent article in Time magazine, was that the problem of rivers catching fire was mostly solved by then, said Jonathan Adler, an environmental law professor at Case Western Reserve University.

"Environmentalists had been focusing on pollution inversions, rivers catching fire because of oil slicks, things like that.

This combined Ohio's love of xenophobia, racism and rivers catching on fire with the vernacular and dental work of Indiana and Kentucky.

Crossing the river was catching, because simultaneously George gave up his Clinton Avenue house and took the 12th floor.

"There's something about getting out on the river and catching a fish on your own that makes you stronger," she said.

The river is catching dawn light.

"Prior to that landmark legislation, rivers were catching on fire and fishermen dubbed Lake Erie the Dead Sea," Dingell said.

The principle is simple: it is cheaper to keep rivers from catching fire, than to fix them after they do, it costs less keep a source of drinking water from being polluted than it does to try and clean it up (if it is even possible) after it has become contaminated.

Peter had gamely limped back into the river that afternoon, catching one grilse for a total of seven for the trip, one shy of my effort.