Sentence examples for saved the area from inspiring English sources

But corps officials said that flood control became the agency's first priority once a flood was evident and that the release of water from the Old Hickory Dam, northeast of downtown Nashville, saved the area from an additional four feet of water and prevented a loss of control over the dam system.

In the introduction, we learn that Laguna's coastal range was formed "over eons by wearing of waves," and that the resulting rocky terrain saved the area from being claimed as a ranch during California's formative years.

For saving the area, arrangement of buried pipes under building foundation began to attract public attention.

"All the politicians like it and say it's the only thing that can save the area".

This time, Jacobs led the battle to save the area and proved a formidable opponent, staging a mock funeral for the neighbourhood and choreographing other stunts.

The iniquities of the scheme had since become obvious, hence the action to save the area via the community land trust – but this hadn't been so from the outset.

Members of the San Carlos Apache tribe began a cross-country caravan to Washington this month, with a stop in New York's Times Square, to persuade Congress to save the area known as the Oak Flat campground near Superior, Arizona.

"Everyone wants a little piece of Coney Island for their backyard," said Charles Denson, the executive director of the Coney Island History Project, which is trying to save the area's birthright from souvenir hunters.

In his final weeks in office, President Bill Clinton created an 84-million-acre underwater nature preserve around the northwestern Hawaiian Islands in an effort to save the area's coral reefs.

In Shirish Kunder's comedy, a California scientist is called back to his hometown on the India-Pakistan border, where he creates ploys to save the area from economic hardship.

Against a backdrop of pictures of colorful fish, leathery sea turtles and endangered Hawaiian monk seals, President Clinton today created the largest United States nature preserve, 84 million acres underwater around the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, to help save the area's coral reefs and other wildlife.