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runoff

(= overflow) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner

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Runoff from the plant.
Ginny, the fertiliser runoff drains into the aquifer, and you drink it.
This level has bilge pumps on it for storm runoff.
Many scientists believe humans could mutate down there due to exposure to toxic waste, radioactive runoff and good old American feces.
So now you guys are going to do a runoff.
The runoff heads straight for any low area.
I mean, I'm lucky to catch a little runoff.
There's also traces of tanker fuel and storm-water runoff as well.
Scioli being the first candidate to admit that there will be a runoff.
As the election runoff draws near, anger at Menem and all he represents resurfaces.
If none of the candidates receive a majority the top two will be entered in a runoff election.
There will be no runoff votes in any of the races.
There will be a runoff election Thursday between Wanda Varner and Duncan Kane.
We got the analysis from the runoff water we collected at Carbide Waste Resources the other night.
We collated the final runoff tests on those bullets.
Actually, it was MacGyver here who discovered the way to divert the mountain runoff to the drought area.
Oooh, waffle runoff.
Runoff from the plant. Chicken litter, mostly. Some blood and parts from the birds.
The State Assembly? The runoff election? Ah.
When these storm drains are full, nobody's gonna notice. a few thousand gallons of untreated waste in the runoff.
There's gotta be a runoff. - What?
Look for a runoff!
There's another runoff!
I guess the chemical runoff from this elitist beach front property hasn't rotted out their blowholes yet.
We've been helping some of them out. Naturally, when you divert water, there's a little runoff.
A little runoff.
Go on! There's irrigation in the valley, and there's always a little runoff after they do that.
It limits diastolic runoff.
There's gotta be a runoff.
E. Coli isn't just in ground beef now. it's been found in spinach, apple juice. and this is really because of the runoff from our factory farms. 90 confirmed cases of E. Coli poisoning.
I guess the chemical runoff from this elitist beachfront property hasn't rotted out their blowholes yet.

News and current affairs

The verdicts are likely to boost support in the runoff for Morsi, who split the Islamist vote with two other candidates in the election's first round.
The MB must still decide for inclusiveness if it wants to attract the support of Aboul Fotouh and Sabahi voters in the runoff against Shafiq.
In the 2002 presidential election, frustration with the system fueled strong support for the extremes, with Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the far right, qualifying for the second-round runoff.
In early August, an algal bloom in Lake Erie, the result of agricultural runoff, contaminated drinking water in Toledo, Ohio.
Rice paddies need to be constantly flooded, and, because they are often located on steep slopes, this leads to significant runoff of fertilizers and sediment.
Water quality would be improved for more than 600 million people if the farms and ranches operating within their watersheds limited runoff and restored stream banks.
If, however, the opposition parties resolve their differences and manage to stitch together a firm common platform, they could force Jonathan into a runoff.
In other areas, rivers or seasonal surface runoff can be used for irrigation.
Austria paid a price for its Haider interlude, and France did not exactly benefit from the runoff between President Jacques Chirac and Le Pen in the last Presidential election.
Bayrou has never had it so good, but, barring the unlikely collapse of one of the two leading candidates' campaigns, he will fail to qualify for the second-round runoff.
Runoff votes will send more women than ever to Kazakhstan's parliament.
A runoff now seems inevitable, but who Lula's opponent will be remains unclear.
Regardless of which of the remaining candidates will be elected in the upcoming runoff - the incumbent Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or Viktor Yanukovych - the Orange Revolution will have come to an end.

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