In their attempt at being watertight and perfect, our laws are so wordy that they lose their spirit amongst the letters. |
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But if you are going to claim that Mexican immigrants don't want to be Americans, your argument had better be watertight. |
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When these were fitted together, they were hammered to make the joint watertight. |
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Modern, top-of-the-line skylights that are carefully installed can be expected to remain watertight for a long time. |
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The submarine consists of six watertight compartments separated by transverse bulkheads in a pressurised double-hull. |
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This process is quite common for making welds for making watertight joints for tanks, etc. |
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She paddles to work once a week, storing her clothes in the kayak's watertight compartment. |
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When applied directly onto the trailer bed, the linings form a permanent airtight and watertight seal that prevents rust and corrosion. |
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Fortunately no major damage had been inflicted on the seaplane and the hull was still watertight. |
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Once the seal bolts were retightened and made watertight, the crew started to load the tubes with the experimental mines. |
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The frigates have a double-skinned hull divided by ten bulkheads into watertight compartments. |
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Here, the thin scrim is manipulated three-dimensionally with greater freedom than the watertight volumes it veils. |
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The awl cuts a tidy hole in the leather that will close up tight around the thread as it is sewn, leaving a watertight stitch. |
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Well crafted, watertight wooden forms are essential, and Ando's forms are varnished to achieve the smooth finish. |
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An online careers database with less than watertight security had clearly been a diverting piece of fun for some naughty netizens. |
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For floral arrangements, choose terra cotta pots with glazed insides or give unglazed pots several coats of varnish to make them watertight. |
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The ship fitters will be working on watertight door gaskets to try and get this place a little warmer in the winter. |
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More so than any lure or rod and reel, or even watertight waders, the greatest ally of any angler hoping to catch a huge trout is patience. |
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All the watertight doors, deadlights and scuttles had been securely closed before the torpedo struck the ship. |
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In this situation the compartment would have been evacuated and sealed using the watertight bulkhead door to the rear of the torpedo stowage. |
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But even watertight concrete is not impermeable to the passage of moisture. |
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There are no watertight theories of political praxis that are without contradictions and limitations. |
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The watertight seals over structural joints tend to deteriorate over time as the caulking becomes less sticky and dislodges. |
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Land Pride seeders protect falling seed by offering watertight seedbox lids, wind guards and low seed drop. |
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With little effort, you can bend and solder lead and solder the joints between flashings for a long lasting, watertight seal. |
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I quickly ran down the escape pod, and I locked the watertight hatch behind me. |
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Because of the freeze-and-thaw cycle, concrete dikes tend to require annual maintenance to seal cracks and remain watertight. |
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Seals and seams are known to be less than watertight, and many divers make do with damp suits rather than drysuits. |
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The heat is oppressive, and you realize it the moment you step through the watertight door onto the weather deck of any ship in the gulf. |
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This lid is provided with a tool to make removing and reinstalling the lid on the waterblock base simple, while maintaining the watertight seal. |
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Inside the watertight aluminum hull of their flying boat, the crew felt no real sense of danger. |
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The first spouse usually signs away inheritance rights during a separation or divorce, but it is better to make it watertight. |
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As the town had no wells it would not be necessary to enforce the construction of watertight cesspools. |
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Parkas are tricked out with watertight zippers and pockets for everything from cell phones to goggles. |
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Even so, the boat looked to be in good shape until I opened one of the watertight compartments and was greeted by an army of carpenter ants. |
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Merton's arguments are often hypothetical, but the logic is always watertight on closer scrutiny. |
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The whole submarine was covered in greased leather, with a watertight hatch in the middle, a rudder and four oars. |
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They are having to ensure that their evidence is more watertight than that which would be expected in a court of law. |
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At least I've finally found a watertight argument against Alec ever moving me to the countryside. |
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I've no doubt there all kinds of holes in this logic, and many examples that could suggest these arguments are less than watertight. |
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A fully informed, carefully and methodically reasoned, conceptually watertight political argument lies well outside them. |
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Defences now being put in place have been calculated to ensure a relatively watertight town for the next 50 years. |
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The question is how, considering that both boys have watertight alibis. |
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The experimental tank was constructed from glass of 1 cm thickness held together with silicone rubber and divided into two equal proportions by a watertight partition. |
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These little guys would be hand-raised by the Penguin Reserve and subsequent surgeries performed to remove scar tissue until the area was healed and watertight. |
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But how will I live without something watertight underfoot, you ask? |
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In any event it was designed only to be weathertight not watertight. |
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When the sections compress the rubber, this should form a watertight seal. |
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Why, he asks, cannot the protagonists accept that their opponents' arguments, even if not entirely watertight, may nevertheless be partly correct? |
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Humbugging cynics might wonder if this seasonal tide of volunteers is entirely altruistic or a conveniently watertight excuse for avoiding dysfunctional familial festivities. |
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That argument is not watertight, however, because existing law does not formally allow euthanasia, for a variety of reasons mentioned briefly above. |
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In other instances, some of these learned men and women, devoid of principles, have thought nothing of taking up watertight and indefensible cases just for the money. |
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While mobile phone records can be scoured from here to eternity, anything short of recorded conversations seems unlikely to constitute watertight evidence. |
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By means of weatherstripping the windows, doors, windshield, trunk and other parts of your auto, you are not only making your car airtight and watertight but safer as well. |
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The hull is subdivided lengthwise into watertight compartments. |
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She fully conforms to all the stringent constructional requirements of this class, including 6 watertight compartments, strong scantlings and a high level of stability. |
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Norman told me he had lost everything except his ship's papers, kept in a survival bag made of watertight barrage balloon material and hung around his neck. |
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Unless the edge of the door is damaged, or a hard wind is blowing up, forcing water under the shiplap, the joint should be watertight in normal rain. |
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Aiming at unsinkability, ships have watertight doors and bulkheads. |
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Therefore, the boat was equipped with fifteen watertight compartments, strictly divided up lengthways and breadthways, so she could stay afloat whatever happened. |
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To their credit the builders have used bulkheads that are watertight between the hull and cabin soles to divide the boat into three separate compartments. |
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The inside of the pot could also be burnished with a smooth pebble or bone to smear the clay particles over each other producing a more watertight vessel. |
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The seat was bonded to the deck and offered plenty of watertight stowage below and a reversible back-rest which was moulded to snugly fit both passenger and helmsman. |
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Even when severely overpacked, the bags remained watertight. |
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On some ships, a few quick-thinking chief petty officers barricaded themselves and their men in vital areas, securing watertight doors against the invaders. |
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Sadly it wasn't quite enough to break down the watertight Rovers defence and as the play ended, the hooter signalled the end of a quite remarkable encounter. |
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The crew blocked the opening from inside and the watertight compartments were used to prevent the ship from capisizing. |
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Bentham had been in China in 1782, and he acknowledged that he had got the idea of watertight compartments by looking at Chinese junks there. |
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The aqueduct was left for six months with water inside to check that it was watertight. |
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It was a watertight keg filled with gunpowder that was floated toward the enemy, detonated by a sparking mechanism if it struck a ship. |
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She was one of the first ships to be built with a double hull with watertight compartments and was the first liner to have four funnels. |
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The ship also featured a set of 21 vertical watertight compartments for extra buoyancy. |
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On 22 May 1916, it was discovered that Seydlitz was still not watertight after repairs and would not now be ready until the 29th. |
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The included O-ring gasket provides a watertight seal when the lid is reattached and secured with the self-tapping set screw. |
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Dispensers include self-righting plugged tip caps, which provide an airtight, watertight seal. |
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They may be watertight, covering the slope completely, or porous, to allow water to filter through after the wave energy has been dissipated. |
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Before the ship was made watertight the crew had to sleep in bivvy bags and waterproofs below decks. |
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Caulking is also the term to describe the process used to make riveted iron or steel ships and boilers watertight or steamtight. |
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Then, in the form of plates riveted together and made watertight, it was used to form the hull itself. |
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The side of the hull on the main deck level had seven gunports on each side fitted with heavy lids that would have been watertight when closed. |
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Its primary structure comprised a large modular buoyancy tank, the internal structure of which being divided into 24 watertight compartments. |
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Flooding typically occurs in one or two main watertight compartments which can sink smaller ships or disable larger ones. |
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Built in association with John Scott Russell, it used longitudinal stringers for strength, inner and outer hulls, and bulkheads to form multiple watertight compartments. |
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Drilling holes through a ship's bulkheads, pulling extensive cables and resealing to ensure a watertight fit has proven expensive and time-consuming. |
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Typically based on methyl methacrylate technology, these systems are able to provide a seamless, watertight and fully trafficable floor mere hours after installation. |
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Use silicone mastic to create a watertight seal between the splashback and work surface, neatening up any lumps and bumps with a moistened finger. |
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Today the ubiquitous cabin cruiser seems to many a Sunday skipper like nothing more than a watertight version of the car he left parked at the marina. |
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The ships were innovative for their time, introducing a complex system of watertight compartments and storing coal along the sides of the ship to help absorb explosions. |
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In some parts of the world, a summit register or summit log may be located in a watertight container such as a jar or can, stashed in a protected spot. |
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A Valsalva maneuver as well as a watertight fascial closure was performed. |
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