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- noun Plural form of
levee .
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Examples
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Restoring the levees is a problem to be faced later.
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The condition of the levees is an obstacle to be overcome.
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Three years later and the bleedin 'levees are still not repaired?
"WE ARE HERE INSIDE AND HEAVILY ARMED" Another Outspoken Female 2008
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Hydraulics was a much more awesome solution, and maybe cheaper in the long run considering levees is about as permanent a solution as mies 'risers ...
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For Mr. Schutze, the campaign to build a high-speed toll road between the Trinity River levees is premised on half-truths, outright lies and obscured facts.
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The rumbling from Washington that the proposed cost of better levees is too much has grown louder.
12/12/2005 2005
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The Orleans Levee Board, the state agency charged with protecting the levees, is so notorious that it makes Bush’s FEMA look like a paragon of professionalism.
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Bush = NOT impeached, despite 8 years of: gutted civil liberties, torture (oops, I mean enhanced interrogation techniques), an entire city drowned thanks to failure to maintain levees.
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The need for higher levees was the primary topic at a town hall meeting Monday night in Hahnville with U.S. Sen. David Vitter.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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The levees are a-breaking, the dikes will overflow,
strev commented on the word levees
never high enough
April 3, 2009