What does embankments mean?
Definitions for embankments
em·bank·ments
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of embankments in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of embankments in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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We have planted trees which will protect the embankments and help us during floods, and we started planting kitchen gardens near our homes where we can grow our own vegetables.
Many families with young children and the elderly have been left homeless. They are living in makeshift shelters on embankments and river banks, for well over a month people's coping mechanisms have been worn down by successive waves of flooding. Cyclone Komen made a bad situation even worse. There are high levels of vulnerability in these communities which must not be neglected.
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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