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Example sentences for: dam

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If you are traveling by car, continue to the Barragem (dam) do Arade.
If you go inland, you can still take the celebrated four-day boat trip between Wuhan and Chongqing through the Yangzi (Yangtze) River gorges (before they are swallowed up by a massive dam project to be completed after 2009), and from there fly to Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou for sightseeing, shopping, and gourmet dining.
Originally built on an island in the Nile, it was already semi-submerged following the building of the first Aswan Dam in 1900.
There are five main diamond houses in the city: Amsterdam Diamond Centre on Rokin (corner Dam), Coster Diamonds on Paulus Potterstraat facing Museumplein, Gassan Diamonds on Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat, Van Moppes on Albert Cuyperstraat, and Stoeltie Diamonds on Wagenstraat.
On October 14, 1978, the House voted on whether to exempt Tennessee's Tellico Dam, which was believed to represent a threat to the snail darter population, from the Endangered Species Act.