1.   This allowed disaster relief experts to construct a new stone wall to reinforce the dam.

2.   Dutch emergency workers labored through the night to reinforce dams near the town of Tiel to keep flood waters from bursting through into the surrounding farmland and villages.

3.   Emergency workers labored through the night to reinforce dams near the town of Tiel to keep flood waters from bursting through into the surrounding farmland and villages.

4.   Two hundred soldiers were reinforcing dams along the Hase and Hunte rivers near Haseluenne and Oldenburg, in Lower Saxony state.

5.   Nevertheless, he said, the dam would be reinforced to withstand temblors of seven on the Richter scale.