sluice-gates

The spillway is located on the right bank, and it has 14 segmented sluice-gates with a total discharge rate of 62,200 cubic meters per second.

Itaipú dam 2008

The Fed and Central Banks have dynamited the dams, opened the sluice-gates (pick your own deluge metaphor) and unleashed a torrent of paper that might as well be gasoline being poured directly on the fire.

GOP Congressman Ferguson Retiring 2009

HE does not care for its creeping, black and silent, on our right there, rushing through sluice-gates, lapping at piles and posts and iron rings, hiding strange things in its mud, running away with suicides and accidentally drowned bodies faster than midnight funeral should, and acquiring such various experience between its cradle and its grave.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Fight him with hunger, fight him with cold, with the sluice-gates of heaven, the pouring, penetrating rain, and he takes no harm — he is alive still!

A Desperate Character 2006

Then the sluice-gates were opened and the whole story was told.

The American Senator 2004

With a barrage of noises astonishing from one so small, the sluice-gates of the girl's body opened.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

But at the same time, I realise the moment I do that, the sluice-gates will be opened and they'll say I was responsible for any eruptions of violence.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

"The effect will be that of opening the sluice-gates for re-routed cheap goods from the Far East."

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

You, so to speak, opened the sluice-gates and gave impetus to the flood of research that soon started gushing forth, irrigating previously arid land, making it fertile and producing rich harvests.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972 - Presentation Speech 1992

Odd how when a decision was absolutely right it presented itself so easily, and slipped through all the sluice-gates of the mind without impediment, whereas when it was not right, it was such a struggle to force it through, and then there were the nagging points where it caught, clung, and irritated, she thought.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987