Sentence examples for building of railways from inspiring English sources

The introduction of universal suffrage (1848) and the building of railways helped to bind France and its eastern frontier province closely together.

From the mid-19th century the belief in "Manifest Destiny" – that it was God's will that Americans should occupy the country all the way to the Pacific – drove the gradual colonisation from the east, including the driving out of Native Americans and annexing of land for farming, mining, the building of railways and, later, nuclear test sites, military bases and chemical waste dumps.

We have just witnessed the end of the most astonishing economic boom - a boom that created an extraordinary sense of optimism about the future growth potential of the US and other economies, a boom during which otherwise sane and intelligent people compared an improvement in the use of telephone wires with the wonders of the discovery of electricity and the building of railways.

Semiskilled artisans were transported from the Punjab to British East Africa to help in the building of railways, while many Sikhs found themselves in Australia working as Ghans, or cameleers and as labourers on cane plantations.

Construction began in September 1943 with the building of railway lines to support the work, and excavation of the gun shafts began in October.

Within these categories, it was spread over all sorts of construction projects: maintenance, rehabilitation, rebuilding and new building of railway stations, roads, schools, universities, judicial buildings and so on.

The construction of a modern road network came after the building of the railways and was mostly achieved in the second half of the 20th century.

The building of the railways, sewers, National Grid, motorways and water supplies are all examples of how Britain has made it in the past.

Boyd looked things up on the Internet and read them out to Greta, about the building of the railways and the hard lives of the navvies.

The scheme would involve digging out part of a man-made hill created during the building of local railways so the Morrisons store will face on to a main road rather than sit above it.

Tribal and forest rights activists say the decision by India's ministers leaves village councils (gram sabhas) powerless to reject the building of roads, railways, transmission lines, canal systems, pipelines or other projects that potentially violate their land rights.