potholing

As all drivers know, the term "potholing" has taken on a whole new meaning since winter.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

As all drivers know, the term "potholing" has taken on a whole new meaning since winter.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

Despite chancellor George Osborne's pledge of an extra £100m to help local authorities with a black hole in funding, the "civil service potholing initiative", announced on Friday 1 April, is an attempt to clear the backlog of road repairs that councils say they are contending with.

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It could have been worse: running wasn't as risky as potholing or white-water rafting.

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A six-inch wide potholing ladder had been lowered, and I was instructed to wait until the dinghy was at its highest point on the swell, then to leap out of the boat and grab the ladder.

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There are lots of things I would personally rather not do breastfeed someone else's child, let someone breastfeed mine, keep my placenta in the freezer, have my parents present while I give birth, eat frogs' legs or live oysters, go potholing... but moral judgments have no place in such decisions.

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I'm claustrophobic because I went potholing at the age of fifteen and while I was working along a vertical fissure they started blasting at a quarry less than a mile away.

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'I've been in caves, I've done potholing, and climbing.

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Working in this way, the fragments often develop regular well-like depressions, the cavities of which work back under the cliffs, and by the undermining process deprive the face of the wall of its support, so that it tumbles in ruin to the base, there to supply more material for the potholing action.

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"We've been potholing and patching many of the streets, and that's really not the most appropriate way to maintain them," said Mohammed Nuru, acting director of the city's Department of Public Works.

SFGate: Top News Stories slee@sfchronicle.com (Stephanie Lee 2011