Sentences with 'dam'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dam and other words derived from it.
• « The US initially tried to bring him into the American camp by offering funds for a massive new dam on the Nile, but then Egyptian President Nasser made an arms deal with (communist) Czechoslovakia. The funds were refused and Nasser announced that he would instead seize the Suez Canal (which flowed directly through Egyptian territory) to pay for the dam. »
• « Sometimes the right to property is limited by the needs of the public good. Such is the case of the layout of a street or motorway, the construction of a dam, etc., which obliges the State to expropriate private land and buildings. »