(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.
Harbour
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The parasites were highly aggregated within the study community, with most people harbouring low burdens while a few individuals harboured very heavy burdens.
(2) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(3) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
(4) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
(5) Faecal samples of the Romanov ewes more often harboured Nematodirus eggs while the larvae recovered from cultures of these samples contained a higher percentage of Teladorsagia.
(6) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(7) Previous use of metronidazole was reported in only 16 patients, 11 of whom (68.8%) harboured resistant Helicobacter pylori strains.
(8) The cells harbouring pLP763 are able to grow to a higher density in milk because of their proteinase-positive phenotype (Prt+).
(9) c. Even within the overall normal range of duct diameter (less than 12 mm) the wider the duct, the greater is the chance of it harbouring a stone.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Clovelly.
(11) G. vaginalis was found in high concentrations in 73% of those harbouring this bacterium.
(12) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(13) The state premier, Mike Baird , also requested the French flag fly over the harbour bridge.
(14) A purified, functionally active DNA binding protein and a pool of random double-stranded oligonucleotides harbouring PCR primer sites at each end are included the TDA cycle which consists of four separate steps: a DNA protein incubation step, a protein DNA complex separation step, a DNA elution step and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification step.
(15) But the new creative director of BBC Films, promoted to the role after last week's BBC fiction shakeup , seems to harbour no such industry-appropriate urges.
(16) Twelve differently-sized plasmids from 1.8 to 63 kbp were identified in those strains harbouring extrachromosomal DNA.
(17) Control kidneys harboured scanty interstitial T lymphocytes.
(18) The role of South African Railways and Harbours in spreading disease and health care is examined.
(19) This scientific advice will also form the basis of a new report card that will ensure the community is informed of the health of the harbour in an open and transparent way.
(20) At both sampling dates, the most heavily infected 25% of the community harboured over 90% of the total pinworms recovered.