Sentence examples for supply pit from inspiring English sources

Yet they are what the Forestry Commission has mostly created in Britain since it was formed in 1919 to supply pit props and softwood pulp to industry and so what campaigners, stirred by news of the commission's breakup, are trying – unwittingly – to save.

Julian Glover, in his article on the disposal of the Forestry Commission's assets, mentions its founding in 1919 to supply pit props and softwood pulp to industry, implying there has been no change in direction since (If nationalising forestry was a disaster, an unthinking sell-off would be worse, 24 January).

Hostilities routinely flare in the region late in the summer, when scarce water supplies pit neighbors against one another, said Sabine Freizer, the director of International Crisis Group's Europe program.

California's often scarce water supply has pitted a wide array of powerful forces —big cities, the agriculture industry and conservationists — against one another.

But the legislation is the latest and most sweeping expression of a nationwide battle in which some government officials, public health leaders and food supply reformers are pitted against those who would prefer the government quit trying to control what people eat.

Chris Brown, Enrique Iglesias, Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez all stopped by to return the favors Pit supplied on his years of collaborations with others.

These NIMBY activists might represent the most significant hurdle to efforts to de-carbonize our energy supply because they can pit local concerns against broader environmental benefits.

The property crunch engulfing Moranbah and other communities peppering the Bowen Basin, a 60,000-square-kilometer, or 23,000-square-mile, moonscape of open pit mines supplying most of the coal used worldwide for steel making, is one of a swelling number of downsides associated with the Australian mining boom.

The ready supply of chalk and huge pits between Stone and Gravesend bear testament to that industry.

On the other hand, the bionic pit unit can supply lubricating oil to the wear gap, change the moving model of abrasive grains and improve the lubrication performance.

With his soldiers, Tiku dug pits filled with bamboo stakes along Dutch supply routes; those who wandered over the pits would fall in and be impaled.