(n.) See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
Example Sentences:
(1) We thought we had a responsibility to English football if we can fit [the clubs] in, and that money we can use to support grassroots football,” Dyke said.
(2) Grade said he objected to Dyke's assertion in the Times that he used information about the BBC's schedule when he quit as chairman of the corporation in late 2006 to move to ITV.
(3) Last year David Cameron dubbed Offa’s Dyke “the line between life and death”, and barely a week goes by at Westminster without the Conservatives kicking the Welsh NHS.
(4) Alexander Lebedev has targeted some of the biggest names in British media to edit the Independent, including Greg Dyke, the former director general of the BBC.
(5) Latin America delights in Fifa arrests after years of impunity Read more Greg Dyke, chairman of the English Football Association (FA), said that the 79-year-old needed to leave Fifa for the organisation to continue.
(6) A report by Greg Dyke, former director general of the BBC, is likely to recommend that the BBC licence fee is scrapped to save up to £100m a year.
(7) The review, which originally promised to report in January, was broadly welcomed but some felt that Dyke had overlooked the findings of a recent wide ranging review into the supply line for domestic talent that resulted in the £340m Elite Player Performance Plan in favour of asking the same questions again.
(8) Dyke believes that following the Olympics, Entwistle has a chance to show "how important the BBC is to the nation".
(9) Van Dyke is the first on-duty officer to be charged with murder while working for the Chicago police department in nearly 35 years.
(10) Among them are former director general Greg Dyke, who described the trust under Fairhead’s predecessor Lord Patten as a “busted flush” .
(11) And, I think, certainly in terms of the playing, we can make a difference.” Dyke also said new visa rules agreed last week with the Home Office will help.
(12) Following this week's withdrawal of Lord Coe, who had been backed by David Cameron and George Osborne , the former director general Greg Dyke said neither politician should have become so involved.
(13) "I don't think [Patten's] doing a good job because I don't know where he was when the crisis happened," Dyke told MPs on the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee on Tuesday.
(14) When we decided in Brazil that we wanted Roy to continue with his contract, we thought, ‘He’s got a contract, he sees it through.’ Sometime in the next year we will discuss what happens afterwards.” Dyke said in March: “I get on quite well with Roy and I chat to him all the time.
(15) Instead, let's hunt down whoever told Van Dyke an English accent just involves adding "guvnerrrr" to every other sentence.
(16) Greg Dyke interview: ‘People keep coming up to me and saying: Well done, you got rid of him!’ Read more Asked whether he would bet on Blatter being arrested if he had to choose, Dyke replied: “Yes.” Blatter has strenuously denied all wrongdoing.
(17) Dyke’s plan is unlikely to find favour with all top flight clubs, who want to preserve their autonomy and believe a £340m investment in the Elite Player Performance Plan is bearing fruit.
(18) Having overseen early England exits at the 2014 World Cup and now Euro 2016, Dyke said Roy Hodgson’s successor as England manager could be a foreign coach but said he had to be steeped in English football.
(19) Greg Dyke, the Football Association chairman, believes a new contract for Roy Hodgson is not entirely dependent on a successful finish at Euro 2016.
(20) Independent IAB members, including the former Chelsea players Graeme Le Saux and Paul Elliott, have written a joint letter to the FA chairman Greg Dyke and all FA councillors backing Rabbatts and criticising the investigation.
Inundation
Definition:
(n.) The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.
(n.) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists.
Example Sentences:
(1) That was what the earlier debate over “currency wars” – when emerging markets complained about being inundated by financial inflows from the US – was all about.
(2) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
(3) Where basement membrane and perivascular clefts were not yet inundated with HRP, sites of vesicular emptying of HRP at the tissue front were identified.
(4) He said since he made those comments he had been "inundated with accounts from people … saying there are indeed many cases where people are left without benefits, without any support, for sometimes weeks on end".
(5) Yet, when Summers' name came up, the White House was inundated with petitions: 20 senators opposing his nomination this summer , 300 economists (300!)
(6) There have been dozens of inundations in the course of the world's history, and whoever wrote this bit of the Bible had probably experienced one.
(7) As a second year social work student, I'm inundated with lots of information, from work placements and lectures to reading lists.
(8) The islands that make up the Maldives are threatened with complete inundation, probably by the end of the century, as ice sheets melt and sea levels rise catastrophically, thanks to global warming.
(9) As concerns the valence of the natural focus, the most important was the inundated forest in the Drnholec locality.
(10) Crop-producing areas have been inundated, dealing a crippling blow to the agriculture-based economy and threatening a food crisis.
(11) We are looking to make sure the international community can assist in the resettlement exercise and rebuilding some of the communities.” Climate change is likely to be a massive driver of forced migration over the next century, as densely populated, low-lying areas become unliveable because of rising sea levels, inundation, and salinity.
(12) The result is the inundation of islands from higher tides and surges.
(13) Mollath has been inundated with public support in the form of thousands of letters and internet posts, many comparing his fight to that of David versus Goliath.
(14) … and the effects on migration One of the many impacts of climate breakdown – aside from such minor matters as the inundation of cities, the loss of food production and curtailment of water supplies – will be the mass movement of people, to an extent that dwarfs current migration.
(15) Small island states such as Tuvalu and the Maldives are already threatened by inundation.
(16) One other issue is raised in Tewkesbury: the response of Severn Trent to the inundation of its water treatment plant at The Mythe, which left 140,000 homes without running water.
(17) The floods inundated rice fields just as they were to be harvested.
(18) And at this rate we will never find out.” Among the sites worst affected by trawlers is Doggerland, a vast area that was inhabited during the Mesolithic period 8,000 years ago, but has since been inundated by the waters of the North Sea.
(19) Finding the earlier results generally applicable, it presents a model of the function of stimulus intensity control in schizophrenia, which suggests that acute schizophrenics are particularly vulnerable to being inundated by stimuli, and therefore, that in order to protect themselves, they tend to reduce the perceived intensity of stimuli.
(20) The Florida resort lies less than 10 feet above sea level; an increasing number of tropical storms are inundating the city; and it is built on a dome of porous limestone which is absorbing the rising seawater.