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River in sentence

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And, sure enough, with all the other pressures on the river, like sand mining, for example, very, very heavy cultivation all the way down to the river's edge, not allowing the animals to breed anymore, we're looking at even more problems building up for the gharial, despite the early good intentions.
Suddenly dozens of gharial appearing on the river, dead.
This is a relatively clean river.
Just downriver from the Chambal is the filthy Yamuna river, the sacred Yamuna river.
The Chambal river is an absolutely incredible place.
This is one of the last repositories of the Ganges river dolphin, various species of turtles, thousands of migratory birds, and fishing is causing problems like this.
And now [these] new elements of human intolerance for river creatures like the gharial means that if they don't drown in the net, then they simply cut their beaks off.
Animals like the Ganges river dolphin which is just down to a few left, and it is also critically endangered.
So, we all know about the Narmada river, the tragedies of dams, the tragedies of huge projects which displace people and wreck river systems without providing livelihoods.
But if you stroll down to the Yamuna or to the Gomati in Lucknow, or to the Adyar river in Chennai, or the Mula-Mutha river in Pune, just see what we're capable of doing to a river.
And there is a gharial looking at us from the river.
In 1987 I heard of a story about a boy that fell through ice and was trapped under a river.
But in order to expand that, you need a river, or you need a highway, or you need telephone lines.
It's at the tip of the Guadalquivir river.
They built this intricate series of canals, and they pushed water off the land and out into the river.
It's a river that carries with it all the things that rivers tend to carry these days: chemical contaminants, pesticide runoff.
Is the river being contaminated, the one that passes through the city where you live?
Our righteous acts create immeasurable ripples in the endless river of justice.
And in a sense, you can think of that work that people are starting to do now around the world as building a bridge, building a bridge from two sides of the river.
On one hand, on the left bank of the river, are the people like me who study those planets and try to define the environments.
So that's what we are building from the left side of the river.
From the right bank of the river are the experiments in the lab that I just showed you, where we actually tried that, and it feeds back and forth, and we hope to meet in the middle one day.
At the source of the longest river the voice of a hidden waterfall not known because not looked for, but heard, half heard in the stillness beneath the waves of the sea."
After the murder, his body is found in a river and his pronounced dead.
The parents of Clayton were shipwrecked on an ocean beach, but somehow it is a very long trip down the river to get to the coast -- give me a break!
Take the advice of several of the characters in the film and don't cross the river to see this.
The heavy-handed metaphors -- the river, the cat -- were repeated way too often.
The scenery and the training sequences in the river are a little different from usual.
Vanessa Redgrave stars as the Strange Woman in Town who does things like walk through the river with a full set of clothes on.
I bought the movie a week ago on DVD and watched it.. they did it awfully wrong! at first this kid Hapi,who isn't any character in the book, then the mix between the two books ('the river god' and 'the seventh scroll') than Nicolas needing funds while in the book he himself is actually the funder, the whole thing about the Hyksos is wrong also.. Taila is supposed to have invented the lightweight-chariot.. the whole thing about the tomb is also very wrong.. there is supposed to be a channel that has some kind of vacuum-suction around it.. the tomb itself was made in a maze with only a possibility to pass if one knows the rules of the ancient boa-game.
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