It is a mistake to imagine that war aims, strategy, propaganda and industrial organisation exist in watertight compartments. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion and the Unicorn] Reference
Colonel Shapiro has what might be called a watertight one. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
This system, of course, is not watertight, which is why meanwhile we have decided to start using body scanners on flights to the states. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009] Reference
This system, of course, is not watertight, which is why, meanwhile, we have decided to start using body scanners on flights to the states. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009] Reference
League organizers are vowing that security will be "watertight" for the. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Kevin Pietersen concerned after IPL terror attack] Reference
Mr Besson had promised to make Calais "watertight" during a recent visit. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
They thought that High Court judge David Wong Dak Wah had issued a "watertight" ruling. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Eric Besson, said he would make the town "watertight" to those trying to get to Britain. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
IPL organisers promises 'watertight' security police said, injuring 10 people and setting off. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Kevin Pietersen concerned after IPL terror attack] Reference
SDI also installed their proprietary email scanning and filtering system to ensure "watertight" security of communications. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA] Reference
"watertight" in preventing further fraud and corruption. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"watertight" plan for the visiting Australians, is another. From Wordnik.com. [IOL: News] Reference
"watertight" contracts to prove that debts had been settled. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
'watertight' to migrants, but was widely criticised after almost all those arrested were later released. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
"Not altogether watertight," observed Cara calmly. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Well, maybe my memory's not watertight, but what is these days?. From Wordnik.com. [Truman Compote] Reference
Each of the boys carried a clasp knife and a pocket, watertight match safe. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
Lights in showers should be watertight; consider a combined fan/light there. From Wordnik.com. [Dos and don'ts: Avoid remodeling mistakes in your kitchen or bath] Reference
At the time, crews were giving the tunnel a fresh coating of watertight epoxy. From Wordnik.com. [Report Faults Utility, Contractor in Fatal Fire] Reference
Cruising canoes are made safer if watertight air chambers are built in the ends. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
Of course, I must add the caveat that these are analytic models and aren't watertight. From Wordnik.com. [A Symposium: What Is Moderate Islam?] Reference
But in this modern age no country can erect watertight walls against the outside world. From Wordnik.com. [Roh: 'North Korea Will Start To Open Up'] Reference
Realizing the actual situation, the commander gave orders to close all the watertight doors. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
Insert a tight plug beside each strip, thus holding it fast and making the stopper watertight. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Opened drums must be closed with an iron watertight lid covering the entire top of the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
To make a ship's seams watertight by plugging the crevices with oakum (i.e. old untwisted rope). From Wordnik.com. [Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced] Reference
It was perfectly dry, as the cases were watertight; so we made a big haul of most useful supplies. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire] Reference
In order to make the joints watertight, care must be taken to get a proper aquarium putty or cement. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
RATH: While no new ground is being broken here, the groove is watertight, the chops fresh and sinewy. From Wordnik.com. [Seu Jorge And Almaz: Double Billing, One Album] Reference
Keith said he had a watertight alibi – four people said he had been at his aunt's house, 12 miles from the crime scene. From Wordnik.com. [Death penalty backers join calls for Ohio man to be spared] Reference
But since man's faculties are not divided into watertight compartments, neither should the sermon intended to influence him. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
The pool was a marvel of engineering, kept watertight by bricks set in mortar above layers of asphalt, mud brick, clay and more brick. From Wordnik.com. [When The Comet Flew Through Ancient Evenings] Reference
It's a swirling, fluid retelling of the tale that packs an impressive cargo of laughs, thrills and wonders into a watertight 88 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood's New Swinger] Reference
Through all this mass of whole or broken pottery the water had to find its way up, for the cement sides of an Italian well are watertight. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
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