Leakage, if not instantly mitigated, can be a floodgate. From Wordnik.com. [Crafting a social media policy] Reference
Is the defection by Richard Lugar opening up a floodgate?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2007] Reference
COOPER: And they're putting the floodgate in as we speak. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 31, 2006] Reference
A woman survives a near disaster on the edge of a floodgate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2005] Reference
The Temple of the Winds had opened a floodgate into his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Temple of the Winds]
This opened a floodgate of accusation and crocodillian remorse. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Justice] Reference
The small submersible moved calmly and swiftly to the floodgate. From Wordnik.com. [Division 3]
WHITFIELD: For this songwriter that opened a floodgate of lyrics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2009] Reference
And of course they closed the floodgate just about 25 minutes ago. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference
We were on the other side of this floodgate just a short time ago. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference
Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
Deccan opened a floodgate by showing the low-cost model could work in India. From Wordnik.com. [Airline-Sector Woes Slam India's Highflier] Reference
Then, as if her politeness opened up a floodgate, the questions came pouring out. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
On Saturday the management opened a fourth floodgate, increasing the discharges to. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"Then open the floodgate, Friend Derec, " Euler said, -and make the connection complete. From Wordnik.com. [Suspicion]
We are studying the ways in which to control that canal with a lock gate, or a floodgate. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO DISCUSSES TOURISM PLANS, MEDICAL ISSUES] Reference
And he says the killings of Uday and Qusay have opened a floodgate of useful intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2003] Reference
Then, we swing over to the right, and, there, you have got your floodgate, your flood wall. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference
He was flushed literally through the dam's floodgate, sent about a half mile down the river. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2005] Reference
After we bailed out Wall Street, it was supposed to open a floodgate of credit for Main Street. From Wordnik.com. [Don McNay: $700 Billion In Taxpayer Dollars To Kill Small Banks] Reference
He fell to his knees on the ground; and then, at last, like the opening of a floodgate, he wept. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
The gate was already open and the boat glided into a dark tunnel that led to the outer floodgate. From Wordnik.com. [Division 3]
Scientists say years of quibbling, back and forth among local governments, killed floodgate plans. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008] Reference
A man swept through a dam on Lake Austin when the current pulled his boat toward an open floodgate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2005] Reference
A floodgate jammed and that had authorities worried the reservoir behind the dam might actually overflow. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2003] Reference
HOEKSTRA: The current whipped the boat 180, and slammed it into the floodgate, crushing the back of the boat. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2005] Reference
The argument and our position to this is a floodgate of cases that will arise out of the change of legislation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2007] Reference
So, I could be that this opens the floodgate to nuclear activity, that may mask or lead down the road to problems. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2009] Reference
The inventor of the damper register opened a floodgate to such aliquot re-enforcement as can be got in no other way. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
He and a friend, Monica Barns, were boating in Austin, Texas, when they were sucked into an open floodgate of a dam. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2005] Reference
Sales of recorded music have tumbled over the last decade, as digital downloads opened a floodgate to Internet piracy. From Wordnik.com. [EMI, Citi to Attempt Settlement; Music Firm at Risk of Default] Reference
I'd hoped that by seeing my mother some floodgate would open, and all the gaps in my mind would be filled with memory. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
K. VARNER: John, this can potentially open a floodgate of the state's interference with a parent's right to raise their child. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2009] Reference
A battle in courts with Justice could also open a floodgate of private individual and class action complaints against the firms. From Wordnik.com. [Silicon Valley firms, Justice Department near agreement on hiring investigation] Reference
WALDMAN: But because he did that, it opened up this floodgate of what reporters I think, you know, had a hankering to do anyway. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2008] Reference
But that reaction has, over the past three decades and more, opened a floodgate of money that has distorted and corrupted the game. From Wordnik.com. [Robert E. Murphy: What's Wrong With Baseball? Money, to Start With] Reference
BITTERMANN: The delegates have been assured that putting an acceptable government in place will open a floodgate of international aid. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2001] Reference
If Rand could have stopped himself, he would have, but the words poured out as if it were a floodgate he had opened instead of his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
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