Sentence examples for the biggest dam from inspiring English sources

Grand Coulee Dam, the biggest dam in North America and by far the largest hydroelectric plant, was primarily designed as a water-delivery device for farmers.

On the plus side, the biggest dam in the world has provided flood control, masses of electricity for cities like Shanghai and better river navigation.

This week, fighters from Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, captured the town of Sinjar and, the next day, Mosul Dam, the biggest dam on the Tigris River.

FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS piece about the Bhakra Dam, India, the biggest dam now under construction anywhere on earth, & about the man who is mainly responsible for the construction job, Harvey Slocum.

TEN days after America carried out its first air strike on August 8th against the Islamic State (IS) on Iraqi territory, government forces regained control of the biggest dam in the country, near Mosul, the country's second city.

Lloyd Schairer, a radiation technician, became a member of… FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS piece about the Bhakra Dam, India, the biggest dam now under construction anywhere on earth, & about the man who is mainly responsible….

The report also found that in some instances, dams went as much as seven years between inspections, even though the department's own policies call for the biggest dams to be inspected every two years.

This includes Al-Raqqa Dam, one of the biggest dams in the Middle East, which controls the river flow for most of the irrigated lands downstream of Al-Raqqa and supplies 19percentnt of the country's electrical power.

Firefighting and the Church Just because he spent his working life as a project manager for the Washington Group International -- helping to build one of the biggest dams in the world, in the Philippines -- Robert J. DeAngelis Jr. did not curtail his responsibilities as a district fire commissioner on Long Island.

Together they make up the biggest dam-removal project and the second biggest restoration project ever undertaken by the National Park Service (NPS), after the Everglades.

The big dam, like the lock, was fitted into the mainline levee of the Mississippi.