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- noun Plural form of
power-line .
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Examples
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The Guardian reports that the cyclone also downed numerous power-lines as residents slept in evacuation centers.
RAW VIDEO: Yasi Descends On Australian Mainland The Huffington Post 2011
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It's unlikely that the economics of power-lines are any different: a power-line grid would probably be equally vulnerable to disruption in any one place.
An Energy Internet?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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California plains, and everywhere was manifest the "new" farming -- great irrigation ditches, dug and being dug, the land threaded by power-lines from the mountains, and many new farmhouses on small holdings newly fenced.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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They also move through the forest just like Smokey, destroying power-lines as they go.
The Tail Section » Tail Section Now Accepting Fan Submissions! 2008
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The backlash of power when his focus had been smashed, his web of power-lines snapped back on him, and the proto-Gate had been released from his control had sent Falconsbane into the Void.
Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010
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If land use plans are in place in arctic regions prior to proposals for large-scale industrial development projects, such as energy or mineral extraction, hydropower development, construction of roads, railroads, pipelines, and power-lines, initial decisions on the feasibility of proposed projects will be simplified.
Critical elements of wildlife management in an Arctic undergoing change 2009
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The problem for Campbell & Co. is that it is just not the power-lines or Gateway but 8 years of a do nothing Liberal MLA who has soured many on voting for the Liberals and for many, it will give a good excuse staying home on election day.
An electrifying offer from the provincial government « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009
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It will take an active of legislators both federal-and-state governments to make under grown power lines mandatory if the electricities industries will says it is cheaper to have over head power-lines.
Ice Melts, but Northeast Blackouts Continue - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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It is time for the Public Utilities in New England and to building under grown power-lines it should be mandatory unfortently is not mandated.
Ice Melts, but Northeast Blackouts Continue - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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It will take an active of legislators both federal-and-state governments to make under grown power lines mandatory if the electricities industries will says it is cheaper to have over head power-lines.
Ice Melts, but Northeast Blackouts Continue - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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