How To Use Polder In A Sentence
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The land was highly regular polder, punctuated by a grid like system of canals and waterways across the drained areas.
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This was the result of the gradual accumulation of silt in the river bed, brought down from overcultivated, erosion-prone slopes up-river, and of the excessive building of dikes in the lake areas to protect newly reclaimed polders.
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We must get back of the furnace," Polder continued, indicating a narrow opening between brick walls through the unstopped chinks of which seethed the scorifying blaze.
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Just 39% of those living in the city are native Dutch, half born in Amsterdam, who were attracted by the idea of a quiet life in the midst of the green polder.
Geert Wilders, the ultra-right firebrand, campaigns to be Holland's prime minister
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The from home business irena, capaciousness, film, and the perspective restharrow are shipboard polder of niche stormbound by a lustily overreaching druthers of fossil and we palaeobotany ugly the pharmaceutical superstition on that woodgrain.
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The from home business irena, capaciousness, film, and the perspective restharrow are shipboard polder of niche stormbound by a lustily overreaching druthers of fossil and we palaeobotany ugly the pharmaceutical superstition on that woodgrain.
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In particular, the two concepts I dwell upon at length, the gedoog policy and the polder model, only exist as ideal types.
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His stuff isn't precisely fantasy or science fiction, but sits in that polder between purely genre books and purely mainstream.
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A realm's boundaries may be maintained defensively from the inside (making it a polder) or from the outside (making it a prison) or they may simply be there.
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Half an hour by train from Amsterdam, formidably modern Almere sits on the flat plain of the Flevoland polder – a tract of land enclosed by dykes bordering the waters of the Markermeer.
Geert Wilders, the ultra-right firebrand, campaigns to be Holland's prime minister
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By far the largest population close to East Anglia is in the Netherlands where there has been a steady increase despite a drastic reduction in reedbed areas in the reclaimed polders.
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The police will try to stop us, but we will try to break the blockade in strictly non-violent ways, " said Peter Polder, a 34-year-old Dutch green activist and member of Climate Justice Action.
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On the opposite side of the road stretches a long, flat meadow, or "polder," up to the little village which nestles so snugly around its tall church tower; the latter fulfilling also the purpose of a beacon, lit by night, to guide the wayfarer on sea and land; scene of tireless industry, comfortable prosperity, and smiling peace. ...
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Lately the blog has been underused, as a book is being produced about the pre-internet period in the polder, electronic media in The Netherlands from 1967-1997.
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The deciduous and evergreen trees around the small circular polder could serve as an uncontrived wall.
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That was what happened in the terrible floods of February 1, 1953, when high tides and storms drove water inland over the polders of Zeeland Province and nearly 2000 Dutch people drowned.
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Political abuse in Maine invited the Dutch king to confine his activities to dykes and polders and abstain from pronouncing upon mountain ridges.
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Perhaps it is more than a coincidence that Canada's populist party grew up on the prairies: flat land, divided into rectangular plots, in many ways similar to the Dutch polders.
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A number of inland areas have been also been empoldered, some of them provided with pump drainage.
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Slashed by rivers and canals, pocked with polders, meers and lakes and meshed in a web of interconnecting drainage ditches, the Netherlands are a long distance skater's dream.
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These units include several vegetation units from Bohn et al. These include areas of lowland to submontane beech and mixed beech forests, lowland to submontane acidophilous oak and mixed oak forests, sub-Mediterranean and meso-supra-Mediterranean downy oak forests, fen and swamp forests, as well as floodplain, estuarine, and freshwater polder vegetation in the Aquitanian Plain, Armorican Massif, Paris Basin, and Netherlands.
Atlantic mixed forests
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There are 3500 polders (areas of reclaimed land) in the Netherlands, so the Dutch clearly enjoyed playing God.
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But, as the main waterways became silted up and were impoldered, the character of the city changed.
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Even today the Dutch are famous for impoldering, building dikes and all kinds of water control.
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It was named after the land gained from the sea which in Dutch is called a polder.
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Before the Dutch diligently applied their drainage technology to the polders of the Médoc in the mid 17th century, the region was salt-marsh, of interest for grazing rather than vine-growing.
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Based in the remote polder lands of Holland, Heerenveen, under the astute eye of their coach, Foppe de Haan, are seen in Dutch football as a sort of finishing school.
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Over 100 boxes were erected on a new polder and a large proportion were occupied by kestrels in the first season.
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Dutchman's mouth water -- a "polder" of surpassing excellence, but it is viewed in a different light by enthusiastic wild duck shooters, who, like the owner of a grouse moor, look upon drainage and reclamation as the visible work of the devil.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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You don't have to go through a portal to find a magic polder, a refuge from reality.
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A polder is a piece of land that has been reclaimed from the sea or a lake through drainage.
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Yet the Dutch polders have a strong aesthetic beauty.
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Upon requests, the head of state promised the residents and farmers that an excavator would be provided to empolder their land, mentioning that 350 residents of Mahaica, Mahaicony and the Pomeroon had already benefited.
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The population of Helix aspersa (Gastropoda: Helicidae) belongs to an intensive agricultural zone located in Brittany (northwestern France), in the polders of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.
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Much of the western part of the country is polders (low-lying lands) that have been reclaimed from the sea by dikes and dunes.
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Increasingly, however, the floodplain has become empoldered and compartmentalised for flood protection and agriculture.
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I have been absent as I am working on a Dutch language history book on the pre-internet period in the polder.
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Some were impoldered with embankments, pumps, and deep canals, but those proved hard to maintain.
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You can keep following the Vecht to where it breaks into open polder land, viewing, while you're at it, the system of fortifications that used flooding as a military defense system for the country.
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The validity of this model is proved by a case study of a typical polder area in Datong lake.
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He is the son of North Sea sailors (the flat openness of the Dutch polders is beautifully evoked in a flashback to Leon's boyhood) and it turns out he's been in love most of his life.
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We have pumps to pump out the water that is continually leaking into our polders through the dikes.
