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  • verb Present participle of canalize.

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Examples

  • Iron Gate, the work to be done consists in "canalizing" the river for

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various

  • HITCHENS ON TEA PARTY - So, Beck's '9/12 Project' is canalizing old racist and clerical toxic-waste material that a healthy society had mostly flushed out of its system more than a generation ago, and injecting it right back in again.

    HUFFPOST HILL - #FiliBernie The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • HITCHENS ON TEA PARTY - So, Beck's '9/12 Project' is canalizing old racist and clerical toxic-waste material that a healthy society had mostly flushed out of its system more than a generation ago, and injecting it right back in again.

    HUFFPOST HILL - #FiliBernie Eliot Nelson 2010

  • I feel justified in reproducing so much of this painful material because it undoubtedly assists us in forming a picture of the many repressions and reticences that have allowed Naipaul to continue canalizing his experiences into works both of fiction and reportage.

    Cruel and Unusual 2008

  • I feel justified in reproducing so much of this painful material because it undoubtedly assists us in forming a picture of the many repressions and reticences that have allowed Naipaul to continue canalizing his experiences into works both of fiction and reportage.

    Cruel and Unusual 2008

  • HITCHENS ON TEA PARTY - So, Beck's '9/12 Project' is canalizing old racist and clerical toxic-waste material that a healthy society had mostly flushed out of its system more than a generation ago, and injecting it right back in again.

    HUFFPOST HILL - #FiliBernie Eliot Nelson 2010

  • I feel justified in reproducing so much of this painful material because it undoubtedly assists us in forming a picture of the many repressions and reticences that have allowed Naipaul to continue canalizing his experiences into works both of fiction and reportage.

    Cruel and Unusual 2008

  • The EEC and the French Ministry of the Environment, funded a management study between 1982 and 1985 by University College, London, the IWRB, the Tour du Valat station and consultant engineers SOGREAH to counter the effects of dams and canalizing on the lake and marshland.

    Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia 2008

  • Teunissen 1993 describes the following human impacts as significant: grass and peat fires, impoldering (draining swamps for agriculture), dykes (damming for water storage and agriculture), discharge of agrochemicals, introduction of exotic plants, roads and transport canals, swamp forest exploitation (drainage and canalizing for logging), mining (bauxite), and industry.

    Paramaribo swamp forests 2008

  • The third network in importance is the one composed by missionary agencies and structures dedicated to sending workers, including both ecclesiastic and para-ecclesiastical groups, national or international, which are busy in the process of sending, canalizing and giving attention to workers in the field.

    Every one members one of another 2006

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