This supports the administration's contention that the White House was receiving conflicting reports during the course of Aug. 29 about whether the levees had been breached or simply "overtopped" by hurricane-driven flood waters. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The peril in which she stood but kindled in her heart a fiery depth of passion, such as overtopped and tamed the very terrors of her position. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)
(A) STU is the raw proportion of saplings of each species in the FIA data with crown class 'overtopped' or 'intermediate,' and (B) ❋ Duncan N. L. Menge Et Al. (2010)
( 'overtopped' or 'intermediate' FIA crown class). ❋ Duncan N. L. Menge Et Al. (2010)
And the population of China overtopped this tremendous total by 5,000,000. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We'd go to Moonstone Beach today, to get out of the House, but travel south is very slow and difficult at the moment, and we suspect that the road over the culvert connecting Card and Trustom ponds, which you must cross just before reaching the beach, has likely been overtopped, if not washed away. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)
In Sawyer, N.D., the Souris overtopped a levee Saturday morning, flooding four homes, Mayor Cy Kotaska said. ❋ Jack Nicas (2011)
According to Bourgeois, the tsunami overtopped a three-story office building in the town of Minamisanriku. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Others are little more than mounds of dirt that get overtopped frequently. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Breached or overtopped levees allow the water to spread out. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It has never overtopped and my basement has remained bone dry ever since, indicating that a lot of water that used to reach the nearest storm drain now infiltrates into the ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Kneuvean, the corps official in Kansas City, said that whenever a levee is being overtopped to the extent occurring in Atchison County, the best hope is that it stays intact for 12 hours. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Huge blocks topped and overtopped one another, only to serve as pedestals for great white masses, which blazed and scintillated in the sun like monstrous jewels. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The competition for New York's Episcopalian cathedral, St. John the Divine, saw many flamboyant entries, such as Carlo Sada's fanciful proposal for a 1,200 foot tall "skyscraper church" which would have overtopped the Manhattan skyline, as well as most tall buildings in the world at the time. ❋ Unknown (2009)
CONAN: Because a natural disaster suggests nothing could have stopped it, that the flooding was the result, for example, of enormous tidal water that overtopped the walls and the levees, and nothing could have stopped it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
