Dessa är ordets examples relaterade till floodgate. Klicka på valfritt ord för att gå till dess ords detaljsida. Eller, gå till definitionen av floodgate.
He did not wish many people except Mr. Sidney, who very kindly lent his soft meadow behind the floodgates, to be privy to the matter, which he rightly foresaw would take him to the autumn.
Mr. Sidney saw him while yet far off, and bellowed at him about pig-pounds and floodgates.
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.
What they are doing will throw open the floodgates.
Do we want to open the floodgates of suffering even further?
If one proprietor was able and willing to raise floodgates, his efforts could be rendered useless by some other proprietor further up the water.
We are not opening the floodgates of social change for further reductions in the age of consent.
However, they have levelled the charge that when we abolished prenotification we opened the floodgates for price increases.
As for the "precedent"and"floodgates" arguments, let us consider what has been done already.
We seriously doubt its effectiveness unless the illegally imported tobacco floodgates are closed.
