If it is too high, the water spills over even when the dam is up.
Here, when it rains, it's chaos, you see that the river sometimes spills over when it rains.
Next up: The Yawning Point, that elusive moment when the interestingly quotidian spills over into the boringly trivial.
Mexico has captured headlines because of violence and kidnappings by drug cartels that routinely spills over into broader society.
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Turkey and Syria have been shelling each other in recent weeks, as tension spills over from the Syrian uprising.
Meanwhile, there is no question that Americans will pay a price if the drug violence spills over the border.
This influence also spills over into the color options, which include the usual cyan, magenta, yellow and black plus white.
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The fear is that a panic in the secondary markets could lead to regulation that spills over into industry itself.
The rest of that wealth spills over to society at large as it becomes more productive and wealthier over time.
That once a week boost spills over into at least 1 or usually more days I can exercise on my own.
Consumers are already being hit by rising prices, as the the higher cost of importing oil spills over into other commodities.
My husband and I solved the duvet crisis by getting the largest medium-weight one on the market, which spills over the sides of the bed.
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At the same time, many Kurds are deeply concerned lest the instability racking the centre and south of the country spills over into the north, endangering their hard-won gains.
Producers knew they couldn't pull off that trick with this year's Battle of Blackwater, a big rebel siege that begins on a river and spills over into the capital city.
The economic impact of Electric Boat spills over into neighboring Rhode Island, where General Dynamics has established a major industrial facility at Quonset Point to construct hull cylinders for its submarines.
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Near 14th Street, a toe-deep water feature spills over the walkway, encouraging pedestrians to remove their shoes and wade through a rippling pond as a rustic border of cattails catches the breeze.
This confusion spills over into the rest of the economy, especially smaller businesses that can least afford to pay higher taxes, higher wages, higher gas prices, pricey dinners with lobbyists, and so on.
Down a narrow alley not far from the sparkling city centrepiece of Federation Square is dark, pokey Rutledge Lane, where a wild riot of colour spills over every surface and stretches storeys high.
These amazing acrobatics also maneuver around the petunias I plant in containers on my deck, the honeysuckle that spills over a fence and the tall pink and white garden phlox I grow in the gardens.
This confusion spills over into the rest of the economy, especially smaller businesses that can least afford to pay higher taxes, higher wages and higher gas prices or for pricey dinners with lobbyists, and so forth.
There are only a few simple wooden pews and just one official service a year at Pentecost, which is packed and spills over outside - especially when the weather is good and the local rugby clubs bring along brass bands.
The most important factor in the increasingly positive situation in Northern Ireland has been the fantastic economic boom in the Republic of Ireland to the south, along with the relatively good performance of the U.K. economy, which spills over into Northern Ireland.
And that's what Ambassador Rice was talking about, and Secretary Clinton and I, because the consequences of not taking that firm action are more violence -- violence that spills over Syria's borders, violence that results in even greater participation in this by Iran, for example, and others, to the point where it becomes a proxy war of sorts.
Transocean argued it was immune to such suits under federal laws designed to streamline litigation over oil spills.
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The attorney is also looking to Congress, where Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has sponsored a bill to clarify that the OPA doesn't preclude state suits over oil spills.
Shell, which discovered and started the country's oil well in the late 1950s, has been heavily criticized by activists and local communities over oil spills and close ties to government security forces.
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