"dam" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The dam threatened to break now; and yet it did not break.
- The dam threatens the local ecosystem and therefore the economic basis of the local Himba ethnic group.
- An inspector found fault with how the council filled the dam and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threatened to fine them.
- A blown dam threatens our entire power grid.
- Environmentalists claimed that the dam raised silt levels and threatened the ecosystem of a two-centimeter-long variety of tadpole.
- Negotiations are stalled, and now the dams threaten to reduce the supply downstream.
- The result is that even though Americans now build few dams, more and more dams threaten people's lives.
- The plan had been opposed by environmental and recreation groups, who contended that the dam threatened an effort to reintroduce Atlantic salmon to the river.
- The dams will affect the minimum ecological flows and threaten the fishing, wilderness-tourism and agricultural interests along the river.
- In October 2005, the site gained national attention when the mill's 1832 wooden dam threatened to collapse after heavy rains.
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