floodgate

The Nigerian authorities said the floodgates had to be opened because water levels have become dangerously high.

And with the price of pig meat up 38 percent in major cities since the start of the year, the government is about to open its floodgates.

Some money is seeping out . . . If it continues like this, the floodgates could open.

"Let's not get carried away that the floodgates are about to open, " said Fraser Howie, an expert on China's capital markets.

If this book is allowed to be published the floodgates will open.

Only willing to destroy the nation and completely decayed class, can open wide the floodgates to allow such a toadstool.

With the government still mopping up the consequences of the last stimulus, opening the lending floodgates a second time isn't an option.

Despite this rather unconvincing attempt to reassure worried parents, the case merely opened the floodgates.

The universe does not respond positively to his hesitation. Only when he's in motion do the floodgates of abundance open.

Had the floodgates remained closed, Army engineers say the damage to larger cities farther south would have been even more catastrophic.

IT SEEMS the floodgates are about to open for another wave of pharmaceuticals mergers.

Had the floodgates remainedcloseclosed, Army engineers say the damage to larger cities farther south would have been even more catastrophic.

Napster shut down in 2001, opening the file-sharing floodgates .

But it was the spread of the Internet in the late 1990s that really opened the floodgates.

A public conflict with the female vice president opened the floodgates for others who were upset with me .

North Korea opened floodgates Sunday morning on a hydropower dam on its side of the North-South border.

and in fear of the ebb tide of your love I guard the floodgates of my love.

Our confidence remains high that this month will produce a seminal event which will open the floodgates to disclosure.

This "unsolicited possible pre-conditional voluntary cash offer" will not open any floodgates.

In medical schools across Europe, the restrictions on human dissection loosened, opening the floodgates of discovery.

Although Pinochet died (in December 2006) before his trial began, the floodgates had been opened.

If the island is washed downstream, it could block floodgates at the Yunfeng dam, now operating at full capacity.

Having opened the floodgates, Beijing's now recognizing some of the risks.

Anything along those lines, we're always listening to see if we can help add to the team. [The Artest deal] kind of opened the floodgates.

About two million people in northern Nigeria have been displaced after authorities opened the floodgates on two dams, an official says.

The country's central bank opened the monetary floodgates while financial authorities ordered state-owned banks to crank up lending.

As Mr Acquisti says, sharing named photos online has "opened the floodgates" to a new, privacy-sapping world. Shutting them will be hard.

But if you thought there were a lot of iPhone apps now, just wait until the Flash floodgates are open.

Wang and other analysts say the floodgates of personal consumption may have to await a marked rise in wages .

The record companies, film studios and news agencies are fighting back, but can the floodgates ever be closed?

Then all of a sudden the floodgates will open and everything will take off.

Entrances to the stations will be raised to around 15 feet above sea level. And giant floodgates will automatically close in emergencies.

This paper also gives a process of national economic evaluation on building floodgates in this river.

'It opens the floodgates for other countries and it emboldens other countries to act more forcefully against China. '

The Morganza Spillway floodgates were opened for the first time in nearly forty years to lower the crest of the flooding Mississippi River.

Once the floodgates of women working were open, they would never be closed again.

After consolidating his position, F. D. R. opened the New Deal floodgates.

Since Avery's video endorsement, the floodgates have opened.

Got any graceful tips for closing the floodgates without being rude?

In February 2008, a 1000-ft. -long stretch of dangerously eroded land was found near state-owned floodgates north of the lake.

The floodgates would open; rape and other sexual transgressions would follow.

He does not believe that the floodgates will remain effective for the 50 to 100 years that the government has talked about.

A ruling that opened the floodgates to refugees seeking asylum.

That case opens the litigation floodgates for more suits based on subprime mortgage fraud, and smart investors know it.

More floodgates are to be opened in the coming days for the first time in several decades.

Once we cracked that, the floodgates opened.

If just one of those seats were to fall to the Democrats, that could open the floodgates of change in Cuba policy.

That result opened the floodgates to new research.

After a 10-month drought, China opened the floodgates this summer.

The officer had said to the man of God, 'Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen? '

An epoch-making recital in 1978 in Beijing by Zhou Guangren opened the floodgates.

Many managers fear that offering so much choice will open the floodgates for reductions in workload and travel restrictions.

But Blackstone investors should not expect the strategic stake to open the floodgates.

The wedding of the century they will open the floodgates to attract the number of media, can well imagine.

The recent victories and lucrative awards will open the floodgates to more suits, predicts Tony Chen of Jones Day, a law firm.

No one knows how fast China will open the floodgates to investors or foreign firms.

Atthe same time, the incorporation of satellite-positioning technology intomobile phones and cars could open the floodgates.

In fact, "you might open the floodgates! "

But with the economic downturn last year, the government told banks to open the credit floodgates.

Engineering geological problems of foundation pits of floodgates in the lower reaches of Yellow River

Supervision and Control System for the Floodgates of Yantan Hydropower Plant

Five floodgates of Haihe river system of lower reaches and subside to survey

floodgates: the exit of tears