That is where the blockage is.

Overall, there seems to be a renewed sense of blockage and frustration.

The drain in the washbasin is blocked.

It can cause blockage of the filter's mesh and cannot be efficiently used for industrial chimneys.

Drain is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

All these costs are a serious drain on the economy.

Turning brain drain into brain gain The case of Pakistan

For the countries they leave, migrants often represent a brain drain.

Africa's heavy debt burden remains a major drain on its development potential.

Gasoline costs are a tremendous drain on the American economy, but they're also a drain on individual families and it's kind of terrifying to think about what happens when prices get higher.

This drain America first policy will leave America more vulnerable in the future.

For Iraq, this is a brain drain that will be hard to repair.

Drainback systems drain the transfer fluid from the system when the pump stops.

The brain drain to the Anglo Saxon countries, the US in particular, is astounding.

This provoked a brain drain as experienced FEMA personnel moved into the private sector

All the rivers drain into the Caspian Sea in the east of the country.

As a result, in May 1840 men started to drain and reclaim the Haarlemmermeer.

A tractor may be used to inspect a complete blockage or collapse that would prevent using a fish and rope as described below.

Issues relating to gender, information and communication technologies and brain drain will receive priority attention.

See also An Action Plan to Prevent Brain Drain Building Equitable Health Systems in Africa.

Its current blockage of the adoption by the European Council of the Commission's financial aid and direct trade regulations stands witness to this reality.

Those investments will drain most of the country s domestic savings and sustain high demand for imports.

Among the possible reasons of blockage are probable technical troubles, however, purely technical problems do not normally last for such a long period of time.

Joint efforts to combat drug trafficking in Afghanistan, for example, could help dilute the mutual antagonism and distrust that contribute to blockage on the nuclear front.

Sewage connections that are connected to storm drain pipes can also allow human sewage into surface waters.

Finally, blockage of the multilateral process will trigger an even more pronounced shift toward bilateral or regional free trade agreements (FTA s). FTA s cannot substitute for multilateral liberalization.

This talent drain is likely to be exacerbated as pay regulations impose a one size fits all regime.

That means ending trade deficits that drain spending and jobs, and restoring the link between wages and productivity.

And the eventual drain of all that capital that had accumulated in the country in the past 8 years.

Outsourcing to developing countries is also a viable solution for the creation of jobs without causing a brain drain.

The state government's plan is only this to drain the reservoirs until the last drop and to pray it will rain.

And even when and if insurance is available, the cost represents a major drain on most small island developing State economies.

The Indian Ex President Abdul Kalam was one of the many Indian scientists who stayed back and wanted this reverse brain drain.

Today s brain drain is not only from emerging and developing countries to richer countries, but also from European countries to the US.

The very high cost of maintaining the roads and the vehicles that ply them is a drain on the currently available resources.

Not even the obvious failures of the French social model in today s environment mass unemployment (reaching 25 among the young), huge public deficits, the blockage of social mobility have diminished its public prestige.

The nonrequired writes about the success story that is continuing education in some African nations and how it can prevent the brain drain.

I agree that it is in the interests of the USA to try and retain the Brain Drain advantages it has been receiving.

To take another example, the East worried about a brain drain of professionals to the West, where opportunities seemed to be more plentiful.

The crisis of the 1990s led to the drastic reduction of the state support for science and a brain drain migration from Russia.

PVC CPVC rigid plastic pipes similar to PVC drain pipes but with thicker walls to deal with municipal water pressure, introduced around 1970.

Taking note with great concern of the debt burden of many African countries, as debt servicing continues to drain the limited resources for development,

But, rather than encouraging conservation, Bush has pursued a policy of drain America first, leaving America more dependent on external oil in the future.

An older technology features vast strip mines, huge diggers, and trucks carting oily dirt to industrial scale pressure cookers that drain off the bitumen.

The brain drain which results from the delayed return of a developing nation's foreign educated students has been at the centre of considerable debate.