Sentence examples for sinking ground from inspiring English sources

Fifteen thousand houses in the area, he said, had been damaged by sinking ground.

Loreta Castro Reguera is a young, Harvard-trained architect who has made a specialty of the sinking ground in Mexico City, a phenomenon known as subsidence.

The sinking ground and seismic activity of the area have had an effect on the cathedral's construction and current appearance.

Last month, Entergy Corp. and America's WETLAND Foundation released a study predicting that communities along the Gulf Coast could suffer a staggering, $350 billion or more in economic losses over the next 20 years because of coastal shrinking, sinking ground, climate change and other environmental threats.

Miles of waterways that add to Norfolk's charm are also a major threat in the era of increased global warming and relative rising sea levels, as well as its odd and unique sinking ground.

Even if climate change is slowed or halted, there is little to be done about the sinking ground.

Such heterogeneity reduces sinking and ground contact and should thus reduce cover rate.

I think it is a lifelong journey to keep settling, sinking, and grounding into that power and taking that back.

For the first time there appeared an orchestra pit in front of the stage, sunk below ground level.

Meanwhile, as evident at the recent Furniture Fair in Milan, custom furnishings have sunk to ground zero.

Mr. Behrens said pumping from Atlantic City had caused a cone of depression that sunk the ground and expanded outward a foot per year.