Sentence examples for vital dam from inspiring English sources

They are bearing down on a vital dam near Haditha and have captured all border crossings to Syria and Jordan.

The rebels are bearing down on a vital dam near Haditha, and have captured all of the border crossings to Syria and Jordan from government forces.

They are bearing down on a vital dam near Haditha, and have captured all of the border crossings to Syria and Jordan from government forces.

They take over vital dams and use them to incarcerate high value prisoners knowing well that such dams cannot be bombed for the fear of flooding the entire region.

Chinese officials have also been willing to finance vital hydroelectric dam projects in the absence of lenders from anywhere else.

Air power can stop them taking control of targets such as the vital Mosul dam but cannot dislodge them from urban areas.

On 7 August Isis fighters captured the strategically vital Mosul dam, the largest in Iraq, which supplies water and electricity to much of the country.

Since then, and with extensive support from the US air force and its allies, the peshmerga have retaken much of the area north-east of Sinjar that was controlled by Isis, including the strategically vital Mosul dam.

The US has carried out a series of air strikes on Islamic State militants close to the vital Haditha dam in western Iraq, US officials say.

On Saturday, US air strikes targeted IS fighters near north Iraq's vital Mosul dam, after reports of an operation by Iraqi and Kurdish forces to recapture it from the militants.

The assault forced Armenian forces to retreat south toward Stepanakert where Karabakh commanders contemplated destroying a vital hydroelectric dam in the Martakert region if the offensive was not halted.