Sections of the canal need to be drained of water in order to complete the work.
Ulysses Grant, when he toured Venice, opined that the city ought to be drained.
But the number of people behind bars suggests that the well of discontent will not easily be drained.
Though state counting-houses may be full now, it is not hard to imagine how they might be drained.
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The ATMs will be drained and the loonies will head for the hills.
The welcoming pool in which the narcotics tycoons swim must be drained dry.
But it can be drained as well--maybe some of the new hedge fund and private equity fortunes won't look so round a year from now.
Exports are also the reason the firm has let its batteries its ocean-like reservoirs in the province's north be drained down to 35% of their capacity, critics argue.
Above all the Europeans fear their credibility would be drained.
But Sellecchia sees a silver lining in the fact that growth is over here: The profits that used to be drained off in store expansion are available to pay dividends.
First, the body fluids must be drained and replaced with a formaldehyde-based product, said Richard Arnold, managing director of the Embalmer Training School in Britain and a qualified embalmer for 20 years.
In other words, capital would necessarily be drained.
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Bernanke and the FOMC have maintained that such action will only be taken when warranted by data, but there appears to be enough of an expectation that the punch bowl will at least be drained (albeit not taken away) to jar the market.
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They note that only a fraction of the site will be cleared and drained.
General Ulysses Grant certainly misspoke when he opined Venice would be a great place if they only drained their canals.
Many economists fret about an unpleasant scenario in 2011, when the stream of stimulus money will ebb, reserves will have been drained and revenues will still be meagre.
Essentially, what the Times described was the rapid rise of "quote approval" -- a strategy deployed by campaigns requiring reporters to send quotations they intend to use to candidates' press officers, to be sliced, diced, edited and drained of color or unwanted consequences, and reporters going along, fearing that if they don't, they won't get access.
Key to the program's long-term success will be the death mandated for the clunker: After its oil is drained and replaced with sodium silicate, the engine is run until it seizes.
With its dark and drained colors and its yawning gap where a sense of humor is supposed to be, the movie works hard to suggest that there is both art and mystery to the calling of the hit man, but not everyone will be convinced.
"Certain areas of the track have always drained very well naturally but this year has been so extreme that really any drainage system wouldn't be able to cope, " she said.
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