Clearly, the current of interest in "the curious" in the nineteenth-century case history has been deflected into other channels rather than dammed up altogether.
Klein (1984) has cautioned against the assumption that 'there is a dammed-up demand for greater participation, only waiting for the institutional changes needed to open the floodgates of public involvement'.
I am thinking particularly of creeks that need to be dammed to provide an adequate level of water for boating.
The cash flow of local government will become dammed up by rebel ratepayers if something is not done quickly.
Unless we can preserve open spaces in and around our towns, the public health of the coming generation is going to be dammed.
We dammed streams, built wooden houses and climbed trees.
The wage claims have only been dammed up over six months.
I appreciate that, but, on the other hand, the same thing is being effected by reason of this, because imports will be dammed up.
