Polder used in a sentence

Polder in a sentence as a noun

At the end of the Vietnam war the remaining stock was dumped in a polder just North of Amsterdam.

This structure is very similar to the "polder model" used in the netherlands.

Crucially, even when different cities in the same polder were at war, they still had to cooperate in this respect.

Important institutions of the polder model, like the SER, were founded in this period.

I don't think anyone suggests Alaska should polder-up or Nevada desperately needs urban mass transit.

It is thought that the Dutch politician Ina Brouwer was the first to use the term poldermodel, in her 1990 article "Het socialisme als poldermodel?

All it says is "The Noordwaard polder was one of 39 such areas selected for the Dutch government’s “Room for the River” program, in which land was given back to the water.

Our 'polder model, which is basically appeasement imo, has meant that for decades we have not done anything about the fact we have too many farmers, cows and pigs.

A decade or two ago this was widely praised as the "polder" system: instead of going on strike and firing people all the time, you talk it out and find a solution that works for everybody.

So ever since the Middle Ages, when the process of land reclamation began, different societies living in the same polder have been forced to cooperate because without unanimous agreement on shared responsibility for maintenance of the dykes and pumping stations, the polders would have flooded and everyone would have suffered.