Sentence examples for building of highways from inspiring English sources

The committee also agreed to loosen a current restriction applied to bonds issued for strictly governmental purposes, such as the building of highways, schools and courthouses.

"The state is doing less building of highways and roads and pushing that funding down to cities and counties," said Bennett Sandlin, executive director of the Texas Municipal League, which lobbies for local governments.

Public procurement worldwide, including the building of highways and railroads, the supplying of software and the running of data networks, amounts to an estimated €1 trillion, or $1.33 trillion, a year.

So did the building of highways in the 1950s and 1960s that bisected neighborhoods and hastened the exodus of businesses and middle-class families from downtown to sprawling suburban enclaves.

Cities and towns were authorized to engage in a wide variety of civic improvements, including the building of highways, gas, water, and sewer lines, and public transport facilities such as docks and wharves.

One week it's environmentalists protesting against the building of highways; the next it's nurses and teachers demanding better pay; the next it's protesting against publicly funded rainbow sculptures covered in flowers; the next it's protesting in support of publicly funded rainbow sculptures covered in flowers.

In the midst of a building boom of highways, dams, airports and office buildings, China has emerged as the world's largest market for heavy-duty construction equipment, and companies from around the world have rushed to meet its needs.

In Malaysia, the Company's areas of operation are principally civil engineering and construction of highways, buildings and property development.

After World War II, the fort was threatened with demolition due to the building of freeways Highway 5 and Highway 55, but citizens rallied to save it.

Industrial tourism came to the monastery with the building of paved highways in the early 1980s.

* The building of the highways through cities rather than around them would intensify congestion.