Sentence examples for caravan traffic from inspiring English sources

Beroea prospered as a hub for caravan traffic under Byzantine rule but was pillaged and burned by the Persian Sāsānian king Khosrow I in 540 ce.

The state is not required to compute with mathematical precision the cost to it of the services necessitated by the caravan traffic.

After 1920, trade slumped because the Russian Revolution of 1917 and because political changes in Outer Mongolia had drastically reduced the importance of the caravan traffic.

Perched on a promontory at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh Rivers, it "rises skyward like the fabled crossroads of Asiatic caravan traffic that it used to be".

This was, however, the zenith of Kalgan's international trade, when the city contained some 7,000 commercial firms and when the caravan traffic employed hundreds of thousands of camels, great numbers of ox wagons, and many thousands of men.

It was for the legislature to consider and decide whether the actual conditions which prevail in the state, affecting movement of cars for sale, eliminate or so reduce the burden of the caravan traffic on the highways as to call for a different classification of the short haul traffic for the purposes of regulation and fees.

Roving patrols of masked and heavily armed federal officers and soldiers caravan through traffic, at once reassuring and rattling visitors.

In Tehran, the main streets become eerily empty as millions of residents leave town for the Nowruz holiday, creating caravans of traffic that snake through the Alborz mountains and toward the Caspian coast, a traditional destination for vacationing city dwellers.

The Kaiser family caravan joins the traffic jam at an elevator that leads to the parking garage--there are boys in cargo shorts, girls with tapestry suitcases and more parents pushing carts loaded with microwave ovens, boomboxes and TVs.

The two-car caravan came to a traffic circle near a large parking lot, with a garish state-run liquor store on one side, and Kern at last knew where he was: in West Alton.

And, as the New York Daily News reported, Jeremy Bieber may be an enabler in his son's shenanigans, apparently "partying with his famous son" at nightclubs, participating "in the SUV caravan that allegedly blocked traffic" for the drag racing.