Some of the line was raised on embankments to avoid swampy ground and flooding.

The ground level will be raised where necessary to avoid periodic flooding that afflicts parts of the Inlet.

The few houses of Normanton avoided flooding although its church did not.

All the buildings are raised to avoid flooding from the river.

It is believed that the settlement moved a kilometer away at some time around the beginning of the 14th century to avoid flooding.

Shutting off the main is the easiest way to avoid flooding, if watering the lawn isn't a concern.

This was done sometime before 1945 in order to avoid flooding.

There are some species that avoid flooding by plugging their nests.

With up to 600 m3 of water flowing through the tunnel walls, continuous pumping was required to avoid flooding.

Officials at Lake Manatee began lowering the water level to help avoid flooding.

The implication is that we are in need of a farm subsidy program for Western intellectuals: to avoid flooding the market with ideas, pay them not to think.

It holds water back from the Fulton Chain of Lakes to avoid flooding the Moose River.

They seek to avoid flooding a country with too much short-term lending that can be quickly withdrawn.

They are trying to figure out how to avoid flooding the market they once fought to build in.

- REDD should be allowed in the carbon credit market with a quota to avoid flooding the market.

Washington travels the world selling only a few diamonds at a time, in order to avoid flooding the market, but enough to give him enormous wealth.

Keep the bottom of the excavation smooth, and slant it about a quarter of an inch per foot away from nearby buildings to avoid flooding them.

You should also avoid flooding the counters with a lot of water.

The eventual project work was completed in 1938 and proposed a plan which avoided flooding any of localities by constructing a number of dams.

The lumber of the dismantled buildings was brought to Washington via the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to avoid flooding the local market in Johnstown.