It is also widely used, though most constructors prefer the lap joint, because it does not permit the leakage of gas as much as the other two types.
The railway company and its steamers form a British enterprise, controlled by the constructors of the Tehuantepec Railway.
The whole forms one of the most important seaports on the American Pacific coast, and reflects credit on its British constructors and on Mexican financial enterprise.
This work, which is the climax of the attempts of four hundred years or more, reflects much credit upon its constructors and the Government of Diaz, which financed it at a total cost of sixteen million Mexican dollars.
This was accomplished on August 7, and the constructors of the desert line were thus enabled to resume their work with greater security and even accelerated speed.
The question will naturally be asked,--Why had not the constructors of the line avoided these disadvantages by carrying it round the lake?
As it will be impossible, without writing a small book, to name all the English constructors of this period, we must rest content with the mention of the leading pioneers of the new locomotion.
The constructors therefore decided to abandon any idea of making a telescope that could be moved about and pointed in any desired direction.
Constructors of an irrigation ditch may sell interest in the ditch.
The constructors of an irrigation ditch who have sold part of the water from their ditch, must share the water in time of water scarcity with those to whom they have sold, in proportion to the respective areas of the rice fields.
The copyists were being weeded out and competent aeronautical constructors financed by adequate means began operations on systematic business lines.
A so-called abolitionist Congress and President gave the charter to the constructors of the city railroad and the members of Congress have free tickets, and the Africo-American is treated as a dog.
Lord John Russell's letter to theconstructors of the piratical ships.
The agricultural age thus follows that of the mound erection, in his view, though, as Putnam says, there seems enough evidence that the constructors of the old earthworks were an agricultural race.
Taking for his texts the mounds of the Appalachian districts, he has presented anew his grounds for believing this region at least to have had the red Indian race for the constructors of its mounds, and that the Cherokees were that race.
From month to month, and from year to year, as aeroplaneconstructors and pilots have continued at their tasks, overcoming technical difficulties and personal risks, the interest of ordinary people has grown perceptibly.
Such gains in efficiency, which give constructors more latitude in the placing of weight and strength where experience show they are needed, have gone far to produce an airworthy machine.
If we enquire why the wise Constructors put together their materials in so faulty a manner, the only reply to be made is, that the counteracting hand of Necessity was too strong for them.
Side-note: Contrast between the admiration of Plato for the constructors of the Kosmos, and the defective results which he describes.
Our naval constructors naturally wanted to build better ships; they had the Dutch prizes to study, and our sea officers saw a good deal of the French men-of-war, which during the latter part of the war assisted them against the Dutch.
Of the ninety-five miles of extended track, fifty-six were through the desert, and the constructors here gained the experience which was afterwards of value on the great Desert Railway from Wady Halfa to the Atbara.
It is scarcely within the power of words to describe the savage desolation of the regions into which the line and its constructors plunged.
Thus the naval constructors of the Mississippi and the Secretary of the Navy became the special objects of attack.
With wild enthusiasm our constructors completed their plans, and soon we stood face to face with a picture whose transformation into reality would express our every wish.
And when we returned from the stillness of the bay to the ear-splitting noise of the riveting hammers and the restless hum of the dockyard, we would sit for hours with the constructors and exchange our experiences.
Our leading constructors advised me, therefore, to go radically to work, and not to try and make a trader out of a warship, but to create a new type of trading boat altogether.
The slight depth at which they are generally interred affords in itself a striking contrast to the labour exercised by the constructors of the sepulchral mound.
But even when the Dysynni had been safely bridged,--not without anxious days when piles refused to become embedded in the shingly bed of the river--the troubles of the constructors were far from concluded.
There were times when the difficulties which faced its constructors appeared to be absolutely insuperable.
Colonel Prescott and the originalconstructors of the redoubt, except the Connecticut troops, were within the works.
Some of their works can not be excelled by the best of our constructors and decorators.
There were six engineer-constructors in the fleet.
It was arranged by signal that all engineer-constructors should assemble to meet me.
Through his death our engineer-constructors have suffered a severe loss.
It may very easily be explained how the constructors went to work in felling the trees and converting them into piles.
The same constructors ran another vehicle in this competition of a somewhat similar design, but not adapted for a traction engine; this carried six passengers, and weighed about 3,000 lb.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constructors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
