The line was begun in 1870, but since that date several extensions have been successfully laid out.
We were beginning now to find trees with fan-like extensions at the roots and base, such as I had frequently met with in the forests of Mindanao Island (Philippine Archipelago), where they were called caripapa and nonoko trees.
But there is another force required to give any full effect to such extensions of the Factory Act as will crush private workshops, and either directly or indirectly prohibit out-work.
As might be expected after a consideration of the profits and earning capacity of South African railways, importantextensions of the previous system are projected and in progress.
There was a series of great halls, one above the other, in the main part of the building, and many rooms opening out of them in both wings, which were carried up into imposing towers; and there were lateral extensions besides.
It is suggested that they converge on Theta Gap and that some may be extensions of submarine canyons of the continental slope.
The irregularity in this case is probably related to the extensions of numerous continental-slope canyons onto the continental rise.
Some extensions of the classified list are practicable and desirable, and further legislation extending the reform to other branches of the service to which it is applicable would receive my approval.
All of the countries of the Old World have through colonial extension by the division of Africa, much as a boy might divide a watermelon among his fellows, had reference largely to trade extensions and enlarged markets.
In this development of brachial extensions of the theca the genital organs were involved, and their ripe products formed at the ends of the brachia or in the branches therefrom.
But all such usages are rhetorical extensions of the commonly accepted sense of the term, which includes, as an essential element, the idea of deliberate direction and training (Lat.
The area of the city has been enlarged by successive extensions of its municipal boundaries, especially towards the west and south.
It was significant that even Radicals and Socialists began to advocate extensions of the prerogative, and to insist on the active part which the Crown should play in public life.
Economics is therefore, on the whole, an intensely conservative science, in which new truths are cautiously admitted or incorporated merely as extensions or qualifications of those enunciated by previous writers.
No great extensions to the corona were shown on any of the negatives, or seen visually, though they were specially looked for by British parties.
Many of the views and experiments in this Series of my Experimental Researches will be seen at once to be corrections and extensions of the theory of electro-chemical decomposition, given in the Fifth and Seventh Series of these Researches.
These extensions are called the second subsecondary and the special loop extension and are outlined in chapter VI.
These extensions use a smaller grouping of ridge counts to form a valuation table, and in this way, differ from the larger grouping of ridge counts which form the basis of the subsecondary classification.
Extensions to Edmonton and through the valley of the Saskatchewan were planned and the whole huge enterprise bloomed forth one fine morning as the Canadian Northern Railway.
About two years ago the former house of Sir Francis Hincks on St. Antoine Street was purchased and extensionsmade so that between thirty and forty patients are provided for.
These are reciprocal extensions and retractions or expansions and contractions of their lobes.
For the covering puts out constant extensions from itself and insertions towards the interiors and thus continues to inmosts and as a result the whole is bound together.
The covering over these enters into them by extensions from itself even to the inmost, so that the external or the covering unites with the internals or the organic forms of fibres and vessels.
Some account has been given of the additional issues of stock on account of extensions in plant.
Further extensions are, it is understood, contemplated over the suburban lines to Sutton and elsewhere; and in course of time the conversion of the main line to Brighton will be undertaken.
Here--and in the accompanying applications for extensions of route--the true inwardness of the Tramways Act was shown.
Additional records andextensions of ranges of mammals from Utah.
Arborescent: Branched or tree-like, beset with branched hair-like extensions (Fig.
Merna then told us that, owing to extensions of their irrigation system, laterally, and the consequent growth of vegetation, the width of many of the canal lines would be seen to increase.
Merna, continuing his remarks, then said that "Lately considerable extensions of their canal system had been carried out.
Similar extensionsof vegetation had also been charted in several other places, for instance, on the east side of the large area known to us as "Syrtis Major.
With the completion of these extensions and the construction of the Intercolonial Railway, a passenger landing at Halifax will be able to take his train to any city in the States or in the Dominions.
Of the deviations, or rather the prolongations or extensions of the railway, to avoid sharp turns or zig-zags, there are four between Lanslebourg and the summit.
The success of the new lines of railroad in New Hampshire stimulated interest in this form of investment, and several new roads and extensions were projected.
Frequently metal-pipe extensionsare provided to increase the height of a flue on account of the low cost and ease of installation, but these must be securely anchored against wind and have the same area as the flue.
Metal extensions are likely to rust in a short time.
Several extensions were necessary before this chimney would draw properly on account of the wind deflected from the nearby wall.
Terra-cotta chimney pots or extensions are more durable and attractive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extensions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
