Sentence examples for because of the railways from inspiring English sources

Lovejoy doesn't know about this and has meanwhile become very rich because of the railways.

"So many towns in this country happened because of the railway".

Because of the railway's association with the West of England, the Public Relations Officer, John Elliot suggested that members of the N15 class should be named after characters and places associated with the legend of King Arthur.

"The irony," she points out, "is that the garden is only there because of what the railways did".

Ms. Kurlander said the Third Avenue el is often considered the most beloved of the railways because it lasted the longest.

I am surprised that his close association with the Conservative party failed to make him aware of the fact that she nursed a deeply rooted antipathy towards trade unions generally and is on record as supporting the privatisation of the railways principally because this would significantly weaken both the NUM and Aslef, two of the largest and most powerful unions in the country.

Public ownership of the railways?

"In Ordos, a herder died after being run over, causing a mass incident because the construction of the railway was affecting the grasslands and causing opposition among local people," Xi Haiming, the chairman of the Germany-based Inner Mongolian League for the Defense of Human Rights, told the broadcaster.

Because the location of the railway moving load varies along the bridge, it is important to investigate the effects of the maximum lateral pressures, centric and eccentric loads on the foundation system, and crown and conduit walls.

This would save the government money because of the way the railways are paid for.

Lynch also conveniently leaves out one of the main reasons that the gauges were unified — because of the Pacific Railway Act of 1863.