Sentence examples for appalling roads from inspiring English sources

Ruggedness also counts on the country's appalling roads.

We set off in haste only to be greeted by appalling roads which in the dark reduced our speed to 15mph.

The simple truth is that Brazil was not fantastic then and it has not blown it now.Alexandre Bertoldi São Paulo  SIR – There is another significant speed bump to growth that is as ubiquitous as those lining Brazil's appalling roads: the labour code.

John Wesley wrote of the appalling local road conditions which ensured it was reachable "only in midsummer".

The appalling Birmingham Northern Relief Road - the first toll road in Britain, which in Opposition Labour swore blind it would never build - has also been rammed through Green Belt land.

Kinshasa suffers from paralysing traffic jams, due not to a surfeit of cars but to the appalling state of the roads.

According to slow travel conspiracy theorists, the appalling state of this road is attributable to a covert deal between a certain airline and the Cambodian government not to resurface the highway - thereby securing business from more anally sensitive passengers for the trip between Bangkok and Siem Reap.

Till a civic campaign last year changed driving habits, its fine roads gave it an appalling safety record.

By the early 19th century, German roads had deteriorated to an appalling extent.

Instead, his subdued audience of 10,000 were told in some detail of government investment in roads and in addressing the city's appalling water shortage.

Egypt has an appalling death rate, and the less time you spend on the roads the better.