backwashes

I say if democrats pushing for an investigation backwashes into getting rid of democrats who are dirty – all the better.

Think Progress » VIDEO: Tom DeLay Exercises His Right To Incriminate Himself 2005

By the law of sympathy, he may have responded to -- shall I say backwashes of those thwarted tides.

Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

But these calls to what had once been remote, unvisited backwashes were becoming increasingly important.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

At that season the river had sunk into its narrowest bed, and there were backwashes and sluggish channels full of light-green tinted water.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

In spite of the stationary eddies or momentary backwashes we observe here and there, its stream moves in a definite direction, ever swelling and broadening.

A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912

Broad currents of thought go on their way without being deflected by backwashes, or eddies or spurts into blind passages.

Prisoner for Blasphemy 1882

Huge backwashes of power come hurtling along the transmission lines back to the plants, which can't be good.

Site Home Eric Lippert 2011

Pakistan and India from the sanctions backwashes have been the obstacles.

World Threats Richard Radcliffe 2010

Good grief, we haven’t even achieved it here in our amazing, space-age, fantabulous World of the Future®, so I hardly see how such a nebulous, unattainable thing will materialize in the dirt-poor backwashes of the third-world any time in the next century.

Only Feminists Could Murder Their Progressive Allies Like This « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2007

You’re at an ideal height here, low enough to get good feed from the Agger reservoirs, but too high to be troubled by backwashes when the Tiber floods, and the size of the adjutage into the mains is larger than the water companies are supplying now — if the new blocks can even get connected to the mains, that is!

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990