"canalize" the waterways that the canal had originally avoided: The Mohawk, Oswego, Seneca and Clyde rivers and Oneida Lake. From Wordnik.com. [ Journal Online Homepage] Reference
Used in the defense, persistent chemical agents can deny the enemy certain terrain and canalize attacking forces. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 14 NBC and Smoke Support]
Also, France, Germany, and Luxembourg agreed to canalize the Moselle River, connecting the Lorraine steel industry with the Ruhr Valley. From Wordnik.com. [1956, July 25] Reference
I canalize most readily and learned very early indeed how to predict and avoid incidents which would result in Daddy's applying his theories and his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Podkayne Of Mars]
He agreed that the first option was out of the question, and accepted the moves to “canalize” the revolutionary upheaval and ask for an end to the fighting.22. From Wordnik.com. [How Wars end] Reference
The underwater potential has not been evaluated, but it is believed that geological faults canalize water in a disorganized fashion in limestone subsoils such as this. From Wordnik.com. [Tikal National Park, Guatemala] Reference
The education of the youth is, undoubtedly, of paramount importance as it serves to deepen their understanding of the Cause and to canalize their energies along the most profitable lines. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation on Bahá’í Education] Reference
Coloured Affairs Department and to 'canalize all non-European sentiment and endeavour - economic, political and social - in one mighty stream that will expunge from the statute book all discriminatory legislation'. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 23] Reference
So adjustments are usually made down at the tactical level, whether it's the standoff distance or where you put sandbags, how much wire you put out, what you use to canalize or channelize the movement of vehicles that might approach. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2003] Reference
The next point is to remove all obstructions from the river, to canalize it at shallow places or rapids, so that the whole river will be navigable, and, if necessary, to deepen the channel so that it will carry large vessels between two important points. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
The SME is looking to canalize the participation of non-unionists in its struggle. From Wordnik.com. [The Narco News Bulletin] Reference
The purpose isn't to produce casualties, it's to slow down and canalize the enemy movements. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Craft can harness this sort of explosive force, it can control it, or persuade it, or canalize it to certain issues, but it cannot create it. From Wordnik.com. [First and Last] Reference
Now, in the hypothesis we propose, the relation of vision to the visual apparatus would be very nearly that of the hand to the iron filings that follow, canalize and limit its motion. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
I think that while I have a very strong set of guidelines for understanding the 20th-century communist experience, I hope that I don't canalize everything into a single exclusive explanation. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
On the platform at Charing Cross he stood motionless, trying to protect his lame leg and yet to take up as little room as possible, while he waited for the tide to flow by and canalize itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
What is important is that as life goes on, necessity, the social organization and gradual concentration of energy canalize the purposes, reduce the power of the irrelevant and temporary desires. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
With a judicious mixture of capitol ships, skilled pilots, and positioned asteroids to canalize an enemy advance a defender can break an attacker's strike apart with a series of echeloned and mutually supporting fire positions. From Wordnik.com. ["MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader] Reference
There were plenty of normal people like myself who were able to maintain their selfcontrol and canalize those energies promoting crimes and beastly exhibitions in the unrestrained into looking forward to the day when the Grass would be gone and sanity return. From Wordnik.com. [Greener Than You Think] Reference
It would seem, indeed, as if the great woman-Pharaoh who first conceived the daring project of launching her ships upon an unknown sea, was by far the most likely person to canalize that channel by which alone, so far as we can see, it would have been possible for them to go forth. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
To direct and canalize these forces let loose by this Heaven-sent process, and to insure their harmonious and continuous operation after His ascension, an instrument divinely ordained, invested with indisputable authority, organically linked with the Author of the Revelation Himself, was clearly indispensable. From Wordnik.com. [God Passes By] Reference
Because of his intense identification with the film's protagonist - "Why shouldn't I play Fitzcarraldo myself?" he writes in his journal shortly after Robards's departure: "I would trust myself to do it because my project and the character have become identical" - Herzog was able to canalize his own setbacks and frustrations directly back into the film that caused them. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
(h) Terrain that will canalize enemy into kill zones, and natural obstacles to keep him there. From Wordnik.com. [FM 7-85 Chapter 6 Special Light Infantry Operations]
The purpose isn’t to produce casualties, it’s to slow down and canalize the enemy movements. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Landmines and the Obama Administration] Reference
Plan, designed to orient its members toward and canalize the energies of the entire Canadian Bahá’í Community in support of the immediate tasks lying before them. From Wordnik.com. [Messages to Canada] Reference
Minefields canalize the enemy, or slow him down. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Landmines and the Obama Administration] Reference
Take the time to canalize and sort things out. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
Left to themselves, Americans build, cultivate, bridge, dam, canalize, invent, teach, manufacture, think, write, lock themselves in struggle with eternal challenges that man has chosen to confront, and with an intensity not known elsewhere on the globe. From Wordnik.com. [The Lensman's Children] Reference
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