| 词汇 | example_english_floodgate |
| 释义 | Examples of floodgateThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. To breach that would open the floodgates to all the commercial embargoes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody should say that the floodgates will be opened if the grant goes through because that will not happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not seek to open any floodgates of compensation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we make an exception in this instance, we shall open the floodgates to others. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sequence of events has shown how wide is the damage once the floodgates are opened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One successful application and the floodgates would be straining at the seams, if not actually bursting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The remedy that it proposed opened the floodgates of gambling and the far greater evils that came with it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The abolition of the resolution opens the floodgates of competition based on under-cutting those already on low wages to provide the cheapest possible tender. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What they are doing will throw open the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do we want to open the floodgates of suffering even further? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one proprietor was able and willing to raise floodgates, his efforts could be rendered useless by some other proprietor further up the water. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not opening the floodgates of social change for further reductions in the age of consent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, they have levelled the charge that when we abolished prenotification we opened the floodgates for price increases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As for the "precedent"and"floodgates" arguments, let us consider what has been done already. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We seriously doubt its effectiveness unless the illegally imported tobacco floodgates are closed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amendment will not open the floodgates to other cases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The proposed definition of "harm" might open the floodgates that the courts have been trying hard to close in terms of psychological and psychiatric injury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I appreciate his point about opening the floodgates, but many of these trafficking victims never get anywhere near a work permit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am wholly opposed to the order, because it could open the floodgates to operators for harbour developments which would affect existing ports. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The inclusion of the words "any works" would open the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Usually, but not invariably, the words he uttered were: "floodgates, floodgates, floodgates". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not wish to push to a vote a new clause which might open the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have the floodgates open, and the country is groaning under the weight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The massive rise has opened the floodgates—the pun is not intended—allowing the dumping of years of accumulated technetium. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I reiterate, how far should the floodgates be opened? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When the war came, the floodgates were opened; and the opportunities of the blackout were great. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He will say that it might open the floodgates to countless others. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Safeguards are very important; otherwise the floodgates will be opened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The floodgates opened, and all the fury which was building up against the science community—particularly government science—was released. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The floodgates would be open for tactical manoeuvring, delay and uncertainty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have received no advice that it is believed that the floodgates would be opened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that they, wrongly, have a vision of opening the floodgates and people rushing in to take up direct payments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no suggestion that the floodgates will be opened and that local authorities will be swamped as a result of the new provisions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know of no great principle that would be breached and no floodgates that would be opened if that were allowed to happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most good employers want to support their workforce, yet they are fearful of opening the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can think of no philosophical reason why, once we open the floodgates, we should not go the whole way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By making a concession of this kind, he will not open the floodgates of expenditure and thereby increase inflation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To do this would open the floodgates to a demand for appeals procedure against the issuing of licences for all manner of purposes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they break down, as we have seen in the last wage round and are seeing now, they open the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The floodgates were opened not only in the theatre but particularly in sport. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I fear that if this amendment were to be accepted, it would open the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There should be no fear of judicial review, of the floodgates being opened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why should we open the floodgates with an industry which has spare capacity? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I fear that if we proceed as we are doing, we will open the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that the floodgates will be opened by the amendment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Again, it is a fallacy; that of the opening of the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we do not do so, we open the floodgates for secondary legislation in a way which we have never known before. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he votes in favour of it, he will be opening the floodgates to the disadvantage of the ratepayers whom he represents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 None of the new clauses will open the floodgates to people who would, by reasonable criteria, be ineligible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To allow that person to be ordained would not mean that the floodgates would be opened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the local education authority were to assist, it would not open the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once the floodgates of metering had opened, the council might be compelled to widen choice for all its tenants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The wider the floodgates and the more schools opt out, the less will the past be any guide to the future. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are others who use electrical devices; and yet others who may wreck dams, floodgates or sluices with intent to take or destroy fish. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Rather than justify that inference, it is said that we must not allow through the floodgates any special cases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can think of nothing more likely to open the floodgates to wage demands and increases than an unrestrained increase in prices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have never claimed that the floodgates will open. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The difficulty about the 1960 legislation was that it threw the floodgates open far too wide. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To open the floodgates is not likely to be very successful in promoting race harmony. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am worried, however, that the floodgates will be opened to applications for services provided and paid for by social services departments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They would have opened the gates—in some cases the floodgates—to the introduction of modern technology. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What do we find over that period when the floodgates were supposed to be opened? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, my amendment does not open any floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I thought that the current problems were caused by opening the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although there was an exemption from tax, that was not necessarily a precedent and the floodgates were not opened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that it is always said that if we once make an exception to such a rule we open the floodgates, and chaos results. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, he and a number of others can see the potential dangers in opening the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My party is opposed to opening the floodgates of price increases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On both counts, the great nightmare about opening the floodgates simply does not stand up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it true, nonetheless, that if the amendment were passed the floodgates would open? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To accede to any such requests would open the floodgates and lead to a general extension of preferential rights. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Far from opening the floodgates, it seems to me that we would be closing them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let the floodgates of plenty be opened wide for all, and then happiness and joy will come instead of misery and sorrow, distress and degradation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hate to think that this new clause will once again open up the floodgates to the practice of a monopoly and possibly a duopoly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard, for instance, the "floodgates" argument. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, the floodgates will be opened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that anyone now doubts that the floodgates of inflation have been opened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Anything short will open the floodgates to undesirable tendencies which all of us wish to avoid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Alas, that would open the floodgates to similar groups of employees in other industries, who would want similar schemes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suggest that the addition of those words will not open the floodgates to a vast amount of speculative legal action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that deterrent is removed, as is proposed in the clause, the floodgates could be opened for applications. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not see the amendment as opening the floodgates, so that every illegal immigrant could present himself or herself at a benefit office. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we seek, of course, is to breach the floodgates between our two countries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amendment, to my mind, does not open the floodgates, to use a rather dangerous term. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Only several years after the state had introduced a new passport regime designed to fix the population in space, the evacuation opened the floodgates. He tried to dam the floodgates of change and progress by using the powers at his disposal. Whereas the police had previously had to hunt for the hidden enemies of the regime, the revolution had opened the floodgates of criticism. The judges may have had the floodgates issue at the back of their mind when they limited the persons who could bring an action for damages. If the courts opened the floodgate of litigation, they would be barely capable of dealing with so many disputes. We might as well open the floodgates fully, then. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There is a danger that including these countries would open the floodgates to organised criminality, human trafficking and immigration. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In my opinion, this will open the floodgates to creating, or retaining, monopolies in the field of the dissemination of information. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Regarding embryos as exploitable material risks opening the ethical floodgates. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Any other position on this matter would open up the floodgates to corrupt practices. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We need answers to these questions before we open the floodgates. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The successive wars between 1993 and 1999 did nothing to improve the situation, and opened the floodgates to the scourge of corruption. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English To not do this would be to open the floodgates which would quickly exhaust the fund in question. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The selection of embryos would represent an opening of the ethical floodgates. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If we weaken now, we open the floodgates to lobbying from industry across the board, and our leadership role on climate change will be seriously undermined. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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