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Example sentences for "railway construction"

  • During April he visited the Green River Valley and Fort Bridger, proving by his surveys the entire practicability of railway construction here.

  • In January, 1917, General Stewart became Deputy Director General of Transportation, which gave him jurisdiction over the Royal Engineers' Railway Construction companies as well as over his own Canadians.

  • It was agreed that Canada should furnish five battalions of railway construction men, which were to be known as the Canadian Railway Troops.

  • It empties its waters into the Hudson about one hundred rods east of the canal, at the southeast angle of Old Fort Hardy, now among the buried things of the past.

  • She was living at Ogdensburgh, New York, when I visited that place in 1848.

  • Let us examine the position more closely: Realised surplus value, which cannot be capitalised and lies idle in England or Germany, is invested in railway construction, water works, etc.

  • Railway construction in Africa and Asia during the last twenty years, on the other hand, almost exclusively served the purposes of an imperialist policy, of economic monopolisation and economic subjugation of the backward communities.

  • By utilizing the waterway both shores are tapped, and the well-nigh insurmountable obstacles to railway construction offered by the precipitous mountains that hem in the lake are turned.

  • The line could be carried slightly to the east of my route through the swamps, and the hard, flat, well-wooded bush country presents no difficulties to railway construction.

  • I would also point out to those who still profess mistrust of the practical objects of railway construction in Africa, the object-lesson which the trans-American lines afford.

  • These details may convey some idea of all that was involved in the utilisation of rail-power in the American Civil War under such development of railway construction as had then been brought about.

  • Prussia, in fact, once more started, as in 1866, with such advantage over her enemy as might result from her control of a Railway Construction Corps.

  • Every foreign workman on a railway construction gang is a potential murderer.

  • The term applied to foreign laborers, especially on railway construction.

  • In his vivid life he had met most kinds of men, but the wild Continental scum that took to railway construction as its own special line of effort was beyond his experience.

  • But when all the other parts are well equipped with railways then railway construction in this highland region will also be remunerative, despite the difficulties and the highly expensive work in construction.

  • Railway construction in this region has proved to be a most profitable undertaking.

  • So railway construction will be very remunerative.

  • Thus no matter how large a sum is invested in railway construction, the payment of its interest and principal will be assured.

  • There was enormous railway development, facilitating intercommunication between the various States and encouraging settlement along the lines of railway construction.

  • So Canada would have remained till to-day had it not been for the opening up of the country by railway construction, to the story of which a future chapter will be devoted.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arrange them; asked leave; broken head; fine gold; great difficulty; immunity from; internal heat; join them; own that; provided for; railway accident; railway carriage; railway companies; railway construction; railway from; railway rates; railway station; railway stations; railway train; railway travelling; railway work; reported myself; restrain himself; sodium acetate; usually given; will leave