(1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(2) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
(3) During Pakistan's recent floods, Chinese aid totalled $18m; the US gave nearly $700m.
(4) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
(5) In his interview, Smith accepts that the EA's response to the flooding has not been perfect.
(6) These changes led to a flooding of the alveoli with up to 40 times normal protein levels and a greater than fivefold increase in airway antiproteinase.
(7) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
(8) It will be protected from rising sea levels by a giant flood wall that environmental experts say could damage the communities further down the coast – and social justice campaigners have called the project a form of “climate apartheid” .
(9) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many locals said they had never known the flooding this bad.
(11) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(12) "And secondly, there will also be help with sand bags, which could help prevent further flooding."
(13) 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.
(14) Her home in nearby Burrowbridge just about escaped flooding but she spends four days a week doing volunteer work for those who were not so fortunate.
(15) The data discussed in this article were gathered through use of a retrospective cohort survey five years following a major flood in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.
(16) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
(17) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(18) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
(19) The malaria threat is part of a wider health emergency, with more than 20 million people affected by the floods struggling to cope as the winter approaches.
(20) The £180m a year scheme is to be paid for by a £10.50 levy on all home insurance, from homeowners who are not at elevated risk of flooding as well as those who are.
Submerged
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Submerge
Example Sentences:
(1) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
(2) The mycelium of Trichoderma viride grown in the dark under submerged conditions and transferred to membrane filters sporulated only after photoinduction.
(3) The units for submerged horizontal gel electrophoresis are easily made or are inexpensively available commercially.
(4) The submerged gauze technique was applied to the sampling in three different spots of the river: at the town center, two km water above, and two down-stream from the city.
(5) Two series were started with the cylinders being submerged at intervals of 5 and 40 min after the start of polymerisation.
(6) Eight of the nine clinically submerged defects exhibited positive radiographic changes.
(7) As the bath filled up, his siblings were also forced into the tub and Kristy became submerged in the water.
(8) A cultivation system has been developed for Penicillium urticae which yields 'microcycle' conidiation in submerged culture.
(9) The dominant leg was submerged in water at 10 C for 30 minutes.
(10) The first invagination occurs at an early developmental stage when non-differentiated anterior part of the larval body submerges into the external cyst which is formed by the walls of the primary cavity displaced toward the hind end.
(11) The effect of somatostatin-14 (SS-14) on gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated inhibitory neurotransmission in the dorsolateral septal nucleus (DLSN) was investigated using a submerged slice preparation and intracellular recording techniques.
(12) Moreover, the luminal surface of the mucosa is not submerged, but is air-filled, thus obtaining the physiological conditions closer to the one of the trachea in vivo.
(13) The optimal methods were the following: storage of Micromonospora on agarized media under a layer of vaseline oil, storage of Micromonospora in the form of a mature submerged culture on liquid media optimal for its growth and development.
(14) Frozen 4-5-microns sections were submerged and floated carefully during each working step.
(15) Furthermore, since only few of an individual's characteristics are used as classifying attributes, individuals themselves become submerged in the class, and their individuality lost in the scientific laws that arise therefrom.
(16) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
(17) | Howard W French Read more In the South China Sea, China has, by massive dredging operations, turned submerged reefs with names out of the novels of Joseph Conrad – Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef – into artificial islands, and is completing a 3,000m runway on Fiery Cross.
(18) In particular, in submerged culture on a plastic surface they either produced very small aggregates or did not aggregate, one of the phenotypes exhibited by the activated rasD transformants.
(19) Mixed venous PO2 increased during abdomen submergence, and PVCO2, was unaltered throughout.
(20) Here a climate that increases in temperature will mean more extreme and frequent storms, more flooding, rising seas that submerge Pacific islands.