Sentence examples for army construction from inspiring English sources

He then had a stint with the Irish Army construction corps.

He intercepted the first contingents of army construction troops on the Bozeman Trail that summer, holding them prisoner for more than two weeks.

He cited the 14,200 airmen performing "in lieu of" tasks on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, including Air Force civil engineers replacing Army construction engineers.

And every time the smoke clears, all we can glimpse of the state is more tanks on the streets, more army construction going up and more billboards advertising private security firms.

A10 Contrack International Inc., which became the first major American company to withdraw from Iraq reconstruction work because of violence, was awarded a $63.9 million Army construction contract in Afghanistan.

IT took Alfred E. Smith, by then a former governor and a failed presidential candidate, 410 days to get the Empire State Building built with help from an army of construction workers.

For thousands of tourists gawking at the building, the grievous damage, and the army of construction workers swarming to mend it, are a sobering reminder not only of the horrors of the terrorist attack but also of the heroic efforts to clear the rubble and bring back Lower Manhattan.

It was the first time that a popular revolt interfered with the army's construction plans.

Mr. Scharf stood in the middle of the warehouse, which overlooks Governors Island across Buttermilk Channel, surrounded by a feverishly working army of construction workers, designers and electricians.

Instead, Hammond (in an extraordinary foreshadowing of Roosevelt's actual policies) recruits the unemployed to work for the federal government as an "army of construction".

In Britain, alongside agriculture, there has long been an army of construction workers who keep themselves off the PAYE books to stay flexible and out of the tax authority's clutches.