Sentence examples for threatening to submerge from inspiring English sources

Monsoon rain has deluged about one-third of Thai provinces over the past three months, causing some of the worst flooding in half a century and threatening to submerge the capital as the huge runoff meets unusually high tides.

Brian Horton, Alan Ball, Asa Hartford, Steve Coppell and Phil Neal would all pass through City's revolving door as Lee furiously scrambled around on deck trying to offload the water that was threatening to submerge the club.

The Supreme Court's June decision banning certain kinds of human gene patents is making waves again this week, threatening to submerge diagnostic tests in legal wrangling.

Knowing that we'd both be trapped in our apartments so close to each other filled me with longing to reach out to him, to connect, to escape the waves of pain and loneliness that were threatening to submerge me as the storm drew nearer.

Many believed that Mr. Cheney added so much ballast that he threatened to submerge the president.

Today it is not regional or ethnic identity, but ideological commitment that threatens to submerge larger "national myths".

With no pit to absorb the sound, the orchestra often threatened to submerge the singers in a multiple fortissimo roar.

Rising waters in Barnegat Bay threatened to submerge the pumps the plant uses to pull in water to cool its reactor and spent-fuel pools.

Yet its president once again called for his people to migrate "with dignity" because climate change threatens to submerge the country.

The creation of the lake threatened to submerge a number of significant historical sites notably the tombs and temples at Philae and Abu Simbel under its waters.

But one reactor, on the New Jersey coast, declared a low-level emergency because rising water threatened to submerge pumps it uses to pull in cooling water.