To breach that would open the floodgates to all the commercial embargoes.
Nobody should say that the floodgates will be opened if the grant goes through because that will not happen.
I do not seek to open any floodgates of compensation.
If we make an exception in this instance, we shall open the floodgates to others.
The sequence of events has shown how wide is the damage once the floodgates are opened.
One successful application and the floodgates would be straining at the seams, if not actually bursting.
The remedy that it proposed opened the floodgates of gambling and the far greater evils that came with it.
The abolition of the resolution opens the floodgates of competition based on under-cutting those already on low wages to provide the cheapest possible tender.