Sentence examples for submergence from inspiring English sources

Also effective are air-lift dredges, which operate by injecting compressed air into a submerged pipe at about 60 percent of the depth of submergence.

Many Danes view the referendum not as a simple choice between the euro and the krone but as the thin end of a wedge that will lead to Denmark's submergence in a United States of Europe.

For these Muslim subject minorities the spread of nationalism throughout the world means submergence if not extinction, while the Caliphate carries a message of salvation through an international Muslim solidarity.

Think of the recent submergence of Kim Jong Un of North Korea, variously attributed to violent in-fighting or in a nod to his malnourished country's grotesque inequalities to his risky fondness for Emmental cheese.

The coastline is experiencing submergence.

Geologic and oceanographic evidence shows that no perceptible emergence or submergence of the island's coastline has taken place since the last fall in sea level, which occurred less than 10,000 years ago.

Other specialized vessels include the deep submergence research vehicle known as "Alvin," which can carry a pilot and two scientific observers to a depth of 4,000 metres.

"The submergence-tolerant rice essentially sits and waits out the flood".

It required the hull of every cargo ship to be marked with the level of maximum submergence a mark that to this day is called the "Plimsoll line".Ms Jones's strength lies in bringing to life the sailor's friend and the political climate in which he battled.

China "bought time on Alvin to gain experience," according to the Deep Submergence Science Committee, a group that advises the federal government and universities on ocean exploration.

"Between where humans can easily gain access and where the present crop of tethered commercial vehicles can go, there is a void," says Andy Bowen, director of the National Deep Submergence Facility at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Mass.