Sentence examples for BR from inspiring English sources
Born in 1891, BR Ambedkar became an Indian jurist, economist and politician who was in charge of the drafting of the constitution of the Indian republic.
"That's not something we want," she told BR, the Bavarian broadcaster.
BR blue velour dominated.
As well as suffering from such civil-service cynicism, rail had strong trade unions and a travelling public that was hostile to privatisation.The answer was to break BR up into tasty morsels.
Labour was threatening to renationalise the network and BR was a shambles, having suffered from underinvestment for decades.
A blunt assessment of this regime comes from Bill Bradshaw, a former BR boss who is now an Oxford academic: "The real idea of the Treasury with franchising was to show up the routes that were not worth keeping open.
YOU do not drive on the right of the BR-163, nor do you drive on the left.
The paving of the BR-163, which passes through one of the Amazon's most varied bird habitats, will destroy 22,000-49,000 square kilometres of forest within 35 years, according to a report in 2002 by two research institutes, IPAM and the Instituto Socioambiental.
Paving the BR-163 could lay waste to thousands of square kilometres of forest, carrying deep into the jungle the "arc of deforestation" through which it passes.
"When I arrive, the ribeirinho [river dweller] is there," says a logger from Itaituba, a district along the BR-163.
After seeing its budget for policing Brazil's forests slashed to a derisory 17m reais this year, it has received an emergency infusion of funds.The government proposes to ride up the BR-163 like a no-nonsense sheriff on the American frontier, but a truer analogy would be to 19th-century Afghanistan, which drew outside powers and local potentates into a contest for influence.
