Sentence examples for weir from inspiring English sources

On the Bure, fortunately, TheCanoeMan has worked with enlightened private landowners willing to provide crucial access to the river bank where "portage" – dragging your canoe over a field to avoid a weir or watermill, for instance – is required.

Overall sales at Smiths have increased by 40% since 2007, whereas at Weir they have doubled.

Its water is now too saline to use.The authorities are now pondering the harsh step of building a weir at nearby Wellington to stop the salt water moving back into the Murray itself.

Conversely, high spring tides can overtop the weir and affect the river flow as far as 2 miles (3.2 km) upstream of Teddington.

Noting the gendered nature of much longterm care work, a number of feminist bioethicists (Tong 2009; Lanoix 2013a,b) have been examining the ethics of the national and international arrangements of care for children, elderly and chronically ill people, and the associated development of international migrant care work (Weir 2008; Eckenwiler 2011, 2013).

The question of what a global feminism should make of identity political claims, or how it should conceive solidarity among women from massively different locations within the global economic system remains open (Weir 2008).

Paul Coppinger, a boss at Weir-SPM, a firm that makes oil and gas pumps, says that only a couple of his 63 staff in Williston are native North Dakotans.

He continued to earn acclaim with films such as Dead Poets Society (1989), a drama set in a boys' preparatory school in the 1950s, The Truman Show (1998), a fable about the tyranny of the media, and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), a seafaring epic based on the series by Patrick O'Brian; the movies all earned Weir Oscar nominations for best director.

Chris Weir, 55, a former psychiatric nurse, said she too was a lifelong nationalist.: "We have been supporters of the SNP for a long time but this is about more than party politics," she said.

The political stunt was condemned by the Democratic Unionist Party assembly member Peter Weir as "provocative" and described by the Ulster Unionist MP Tom Elliott as calculated to "cause offence".

It was a crucial gift, largely enabling Better Together to pay for the final 100 days of campaigning – though Rowling was less generous than the SNP's most lavish funders, the Euromillions winners Chris and Colin Weir, whose donations to yes and the SNP topped £5.5m by early September.