The sluice gate is about 20 miles from central Bangkok, which has largely remained dry, thanks to a wall of sandbags erected, guarded and maintained by soldiers.
Additionally, multiple sluices raise questions about the nature of Wh-movement under ellipsis, since multiple sluicing is attested also in languages that lack multiple Wh-fronting (for English, see Lasnik 2014, and Rodrigues et al 2009 for Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese).
With conservative assumptions about sea level rise and the subsidence of the area, two diversion structures--large concrete sluices placed in the river embankment--would create about 700 square kilometers of land over 30 years, said Gary Parker of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
There are behavioural tics that make the Person Who Knows About Wine easy to ridicule: the compulsive swirling of the glass, the theatrical sniffing, the noisy sluicing between teeth, gums and tongue, the stream of flowery jargon.
Companies, unions and other interest groups poured about $300 million into campaign ads in the 2010 Congressional elections after the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision opened the sluices to unlimited spending by independent groups.
But now – and for all but about three months of the year after the Niger floods – the canal is a sandy bowl with a succession of inoperative sluices.
Daylight does not penetrate inside, though rainwater sluices in.
Don't swim near weirs, locks, pipes and sluices.
Sediment from forestry sluices into coastal waters, smothering coral.
Turn on your radio and there's a lot of yelling about Marxist socialism and We Need To Take Back Our Country, and yet the American people plant tulip bulbs and sluice off the driveway and haul the glass bottles to the recycling center.
