Sentence examples for stop floods from inspiring English sources

He said: Isn't it bizarre that this government thinks that somehow raising the price of electricity is going to clean up our environment, stop bushfires, stop floods, stop droughts?

When I asked the Environment Agency what measures it's taking to stop floods at source, the only project it mentioned was Holnicote on Exmoor, which is, er, run by the National Trust.

From the Columbia in the Northwest to the Everglades in Florida, they have been empowered by federal and state governments to take control of ecologically imperiled rivers that have been harnessed for decades to stop floods, irrigate farms and generate power.

Another Jakarta resident, Wildan, urged the government to do more to stop floods in future.

Particularly, in my opinion, when they explain how the name of their new fund (Floodgate, which is a gate to stop floods) is actually about opening the floodgate, not being one.

Bankers Could Be Heroes -- And Even Stop Floods! reports Bill Nighy at the UK Guardian, by adopting a teeny weeny tax (0.05%) on speculative banking.

Undaunted, Mr. Taylor and Ms. Manheim continued to live in her studio and used sandbags to stop flooding.

His attempt to stop flood insurance legislation by demanding that it include a fetal-rights bill lives on in memory.

Harvests typically double, he says, if farmers plant early, give seedlings more room to grow and stop flooding fields.

It would stop flooding in the French Quarter and other areas but could mean writing off half the city.

They introduce him at virtually every campaign stop, flood gyms and senior centers with crowds on short notice and attack his Republican rivals.