The drain in the washbasin is blocked.

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.

The cubit is an ancient unit based on the forearm length from the middle finger tip to the elbow bottom.

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.

China might well step in to fill that vacuum, but that is quite different from being able to elbow America aside.

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.

It is most often caused by a projectile, but can also be caused by the blow of an elbow or other body part.

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.

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

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

Peter Elbow advanced freewriting in his book Writing Without Teachers (1975), and it has been popularized by Julia Cameron through her book The Artist's Way (1992).

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.

They cut off his hands from beneath the elbow. He bled to death in front of his pregnant wife, Zainab, and us before he was dumped behind the house.

Furthermore, on numerous occasions he had been kidnapped and subjected to beatings with sticks and fists by supporters of BNP, which had resulted in serious damage to his elbow.

So for the simple little things like picking something up, I would have to bend my elbow, and then I would have to cocontract to get it to change modes.

The guy on the right had a knife with a 10 inch blade, and he went in under my elbow, and it went up and cut my inferior vena cava.

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.

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.

When I did that, I had to use my bicep to get the hand to close, use my tricep to get it to open, cocontract again to get the elbow to work again.

She has a difficult hand to play, and can expect her elbow to be nudged regularly by EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso, who was the big winner in the carve up of jobs.

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.