Sentence examples for any railroads from inspiring English sources

LETTER FROM CHINA about writer's experience as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English language students at Fuling Teachers College in communist China... Fuling was a Yangtze River town in Sichuan, a province in southwestern China, and there weren't any railroads or highways in that part of the country.

By Peter Hessler The New Yorker, November 13, 2000 P. 110 LETTER FROM CHINA about writer's experience as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English language students at Fuling Teachers College in communist China... Fuling was a Yangtze River town in Sichuan, a province in southwestern China, and there weren't any railroads or highways in that part of the country.

Clearly defined policies and procedures are essential for efficient operation and maintenance of any railroad — military or civilian.

He would entertain us; for example, he would tell us what time any train arrived at and departed from any station on any railroad in America.

For less than $2,000, Sears would ship two boxcars containing 30,000 pieces of building material to any railroad station, along with a 75-page leather-bound instruction manual.

Debs and his counsel tried to argue that the union leadership itself had never been involved in seizing any railroad property or engaged in violence, and they were therefore not in contempt of court and had not violated the injunction.

It's not surprising Eastwood was ignorant of any railroading by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), since it's a narrative absent from Highest Duty, or anything actually said or written by the NTSB.

I suggest to any railroad executive who shrugs off responsibility that he or she visit Switzerland and spend some time studying an infrastructure that has lasted well over 100 years.

The train climbs to 16,000 feet, the highest of any railroad in the world, and workers had to build special features into the cars, like oxygen tanks for passengers gasping at such high altitudes.

But on any railroad, morning routines that differ by as little as half an hour can yield great consequences on professional and personal lives: commuters who arrived in the city after 7 30 a.m. were twice as likely to be late as those who arrived between 6 and 7 30 a.m.

Also any railroad man who is always figuring on the best jobs and sidestepping undesirable ones (based on the old allusion, 'life is a bowl of cherries')." That suspected allusion strikes me as far-fetched; as the lyricist Lew Brown wrote in his song of that name in 1931, "Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious".