"protective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Beninese state has decided to prohibit the pumping of sea and sand for the construction of protective dikes.
- When the attractive, protective dike was completed in 1980, she made her second Clinton debut and was rechristened "City of Clinton"
- It was about one hundred feet wide, and had risen over the protective dikes, making it at least twelve feet deep.
- "Visitors with gold buy themselves housing", Cotswald went on, pointing to the other side of the island, where the houseboats were nosed into the protective dike around the city.
- The sounds reverberating off the stone face of the protective dike came from another, far more ruthless, enemy.
- For the preservation of the site, funding was offered by American Express to construct a protective dike.
- The 1989 act directed the Corps of Engineers to build a protective dike around the area, which covers 8.5 square miles.
- They add that in some cases, villagers were imperiled by possible sudden breaches of their own protective dikes.
- A system of protective dikes and drainage canals has been built, because the Bodrog tributaries had often caused floods.
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