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Example sentences for "common carrier"

  • Nor is it without significance, in the light of subsequent events, that the Wabash case was an appeal by a common carrier to Federal authority for protection against a state statute.

  • Transfers from the US Government add substantially to American Samoa's economic well-being.

  • Also, my road cannot be private; it must be a common carrier, and that's where the shoe pinches.

  • And certainly as a common carrier we will be welcomed by the farmers and cattlemen along our short line.

  • Had Cardigan in some mysterious manner managed to borrow enough money to parallel the Laguna Grande Lumber Company's logging- road, and was he disguising it as a common carrier?

  • In the matter of service and rates the interest of a common carrier is not at bottom and in the long run antagonistic to the interest of its patrons.

  • The fundamental interest of a common carrier is to develop traffic, and this interest coincides with the interest in general of the communities it serves.

  • When California violated the Federal Safety Appliance Act in the operation of the State Belt Railroad as a common carrier in interstate commerce it was held liable for the statutory penalty.

  • A number of aid programs sponsored by the World Bank and the IMF have been cut off since 1993 because of the government's gross corruption and mismanagement.

  • Businesses, for the most part, are owned by government officials and their family members.

  • The duties of a common carrier, so far as the earlier evidence goes, were simply those of bailees in general, coupled with the liabilities generally attached to the exercise of a public calling.

  • A common carrier is liable for goods which are stolen from him, or otherwise lost from his charge except by the act of God or the public enemy.

  • A sleeping car company operating in connection with ordinary trains is not a common carrier, nor an innkeeper as to the baggage of a passenger.

  • Though the business of a telegraph company is public in its nature, it is not a common carrier, and it may therefore set up reasonable regulations for the reception, transmission and delivery of messages.

  • In 2005, the deterioration in housing, hospitals, and other capital plant continued, and the cost to Australia of keeping the government and economy afloat continued to climb.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common carrier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abandon the; commissioned officers and privates; common ancestor; common carriers; common cold; common consent; common conversation; common currency; common denominator; common fund; common impulse; common interests; common object; common opinion; common origin; common parent; common people; common school; common seal; common soldier; common thing; commonly applied; order not; see the; sound policy; special type