What's the difference between causey and embankment?

Causey


Definition:

  • (n.) A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Causey added: "Last week we were told that English regions will need to cut £27m a year by 2016.
  • (2) BBC Cornwall managing editor Pauline Causey used the same Q&A to email Thompson with her concerns about the impact of the cuts on local radio .
  • (3) BBC Cornwall managing editor Pauline Causey said local stations in England were suffering unfairly compared to colleagues on Radio 4 and on the BBC networks in the devolved nations.
  • (4) Causey's email, sent to Thompson, echoed concerns being privately expressed by several BBC executives that Radio 4 was being safeguarded at the expense of the corporation's local radio output.
  • (5) "We apparently cost too much, and don't have a high enough reach," said Causey in her email to Thompson.
  • (6) This filter, based on the work of Graupe (3) and of Graupe and Causey (4), has been incorporated in standard in-the-ear (ITE) and in behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids by several hearing aid manufacturers.
  • (7) Causey said BBC Radio 4 had gone "untouched" in the cuts announced by Thompson last week.
  • (8) OS Map: Explorer 138: Dover, Folkestone & Hythe Keswick to Friar's Crag Cumbria Catbells and Causey Pike reflected in the Derwent Water from Friar's Crag, Lake District.
  • (9) Causey made the comments in a staff question-and-answer session with Thompson and other senior BBC executives on Wednesday.
  • (10) Surgical stress or cutaneous electrical stimulation causey hexamethonium.
  • (11) Causey said her station, which has an annual budget of £1.6m, is facing cuts of 14% as part of the director general's Delivering Quality First initiative (DQF).

Embankment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
  • (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two embankments destroyed by the army on Thursday were near the cities of Muzaffargarh and Multan.
  • (2) A few escaped by running down the embankment but most of the rest were arrested.
  • (3) Thousands are expected to join a "feeder march" outside the University of London student union building in Bloomsbury at 10am before making their way to the Embankment, where the main body of the TUC march is congregating.
  • (4) The Metropolitan police, which is thought to be expecting 15,000 protesters, said it had been in discussions with the NUS and other groups planning to march along the Embankment.
  • (5) In September Yamadayev blamed Kadyrov and promised to take revenge after his older brother Ruslan was assassinated while driving along the embankment of the Moscow river.
  • (6) A barium meal study and endoscopy revealed a huge crater surrounded by a thick embankment on the posterior wall of the stomach body.
  • (7) It is moving to a smaller HQ, the Curtis Green building on Victoria Embankment, which has stood empty since late 2011.
  • (8) However, it will not include the famous revolving sign, which is moving with the force to its new headquarters on Victoria Embankment.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Ukrainian flag being taken down from the top of Moscow’s Kotelnicheskaya Embankment building on 20 August, 2014.
  • (10) The project will create potentially dangerous crowd pressures on nearby parts of the southern Thames embankments that haven’t been studied.
  • (11) • The front of the march is due to leave the Embankment at noon arriving at Hyde Park for the rally at around 1.30pm.
  • (12) By the time of the Kinnego embankment bombing, 168 RUC officers had lost their lives.
  • (13) Dredged material will be contained within constructed embankments near new railway lines that will run to the Abbot Point port.
  • (14) If you're going to cleanse the country of indigents, then you may as well do it all in one go: clear out the squatters, get rid of all the "beds in sheds", demolish unofficial Gypsy sites, hustle the rough sleepers out of doorways, and sweep away anyone a bit weird, like Anne Naysmith, 75, who slept in her old car, and built a charming garden in a car park corner next to a railway embankment, until TfL came along and mowed down the shelter, flowers and fruit trees.
  • (15) According to the TUC people are still likely to be crossing the start line on the Embankment at 2pm so organisers are calling on people to stagger their arrival times between 10.30am and 1.30pm.
  • (16) Her body was found by chance in 2003, near a beach on the Cooley Peninsula, across the border in Co Louth, after a heavy storm washed away part of an embankment.
  • (17) Dredged material will be contained within constructed embankments near new railway lines that will run to the Abbot Point port, which is being developed by the Indian firm Adani to export coal extracted from its huge Carmichael mine in central Queensland.
  • (18) One Sunday recently while staying in London, I took a stroll in the gardens of Temple, the insular clod of quads and offices between the Strand and the Embankment.
  • (19) As well as the Bank of England vault on Threadneedle Street, there are thought to be six commercial vaults across London, with one rumoured to be below JPMorgan’s offices on Victoria Embankment .
  • (20) According to these conditions, any march by protesters must begin from Trafalgar Square and stay within an area bounded by the square, Northumberland Avenue, Victoria Embankment, Bridge Street, Parliament Square, Parliament Street and Whitehall.

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