"corps" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One would require truly independent review of the design, cost and environmental consequences of all corps projects costing more than $40 million.
- Here, farmers and politicians have considered the corps' flood-control projects as an indispensable line of defense to protect fields and towns.
- But major corps projects, like huge waterway projects in the United States, have also been criticized as grandiose and unresponsive to local needs.
- Critics said other major corps projects in the Mississippi Delta and the Florida Everglades had failed miserably.
- The suit claims that corps projects over the last 40 years unwittingly contributed to beach erosion on Fire Island.
- The total cost for the corps project to date has been $72 million, because of additional work, installing modular offices for government agencies and building walkways.
- In 2006, they succeeded in adding the peer review of corps projects to the Water resources development bill that was working its way through Congress.
- Mr. Parker left office in 2002 after he testified that the administration's financing request for corps projects was too low.
- Congress should require outside review of corps projects, adoption of modern water-management principles and clear work priorities.
- Those who benefit from corps projects should share in the costs.
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