Sentence examples for a canal through from inspiring English sources

A year later, when Colombia rejected his proposal to build a canal through its territory in Panama (to allow the U.S. Navy to operate in both the Atlantic and Pacific), Roosevelt refused to take no for an answer.

Modern ships had hoped to save between 28 and 40 hours by using a canal through Kra.

A canal through the drainage areas would be more expensive and raise environmental concerns and disputes over water.

Venetians in the 15th century and the French in the 17th and 18th centuries speculated upon the possibility of making a canal through the isthmus.

Contemplating the possible scope of the destruction that might lie ahead, Mr. Walton gazed at neighboring homes and said of the storm: "It could cut a canal through here.

He tried to cut a more direct path to the West Coast, a canal through Nicaragua, and there are scenes of stranded steamers here that are straight out of the movie "Fitzcarraldo".

That a fundamental respect for and fear of nature is exemplified in the Hindu tradition makes it all the more horrendous that the government of India is pushing ahead with plans to drive a shipping canal through a particularly environmentally sensitive region.

A canal runs through Peshawar.

And he remains committed to building a canal system through the country.

After Carter pushed a canal treaty through the Senate in 1978, these men singled out pro-treaty senators for defeat.

With a canal running through downtown and a host of postcard-worthy Victorian houses, Lewes lies at the base of Cape Henlopen, which projects out into the Atlantic at the mouth of Delaware Bay.