Damming in a sentence

A Devon hospital has apologised after a damming email went sent to junior doctors condemning the strikes.

The damming of the Nile has also resulted in several ecological consequences because the natural flow and process of the river were interrupted.

To back up that claim Lively has included 22 pages of damming texts between Baldoni’s publicist to Melissa Nathan, who heads a crisis PR firm.

Jacobs says they’re usually caused by the frequent damming of Lake No Lake by the Tulsequah Glacier.

The study also flagged the “rampant” damming of the rivers across the Himalayas, saying the presence of dams would definitely obstruct the fish mode of movements to safer havens, ultimately risking their very survival.

The United Nations estimates that around one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, at least in part because of damming, river pollution, diversion for industrial agriculture and overfishing.

It’s not an excavator working on the Interstate 84 construction project, rather it is a rodent known for damming streams to create a habit.

To prevent damming, have a professional clear your gutters of leaves and debris ahead of the first snow and consider installing gutter guards to help prevent melting snow from refreezing in gutters.

All were dug by a continental ice sheet that drove through the area, deepening some river channels to form lakes, and damming others with debris.

Beavers and salmon Sockeye salmon jumping over beaver dam Beavers also function as ecosystem engineers; in the process of clear-cutting and damming, beavers alter their ecosystems extensively.

By damming western rivers in order to support massive irrigation projects, population growth and farming were made possible.

Canalization modifies the stream to carry traffic more safely by controlling the flow of the stream by dredging, damming and modifying its path.

Damming has also been important for averting floods in Iraq, to which the Tigris has historically been notoriously prone following April melting of snow in the Turkish mountains.

For example, the damming of rivers for mills cut off upriver towns from fisheries; logging and clearing of forest in watersheds harmed local fisheries downstream.

Gifford Pinchot, Breaking New Ground, (1947) p. 32. Muir and the Sierra Club vehemently opposed the damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite in order to provide water to the city of San Francisco.

He also significantly improved the castle's water defences by damming the Finham and Inchford Brooks, creating the Great Mere.

However, damming and channeling the river has kept it from reaching its natural sediment sources along most of its course.

Huge water defences were created by damming the local streams, and the resulting fortifications proved able to withstand assaults by land and water in 1266.

Indiscriminate damming along the river has been cited as an obvious reason.

Otherwise, surface water is restricted to a few large storage dams retaining and damming up these seasonal floods and their runoff.