Sentence examples for concrete river from inspiring English sources

It is extraordinary that the museum most frequented by Japanese is the Louvre -- far from home-grown package tours of dams and concrete river fortifications.

Dallas is building a park on a deck over a downtown freeway, and Los Angeles is looking at how to gussy and green up an old concrete river bed.

For all its ragged, juke-joint feel, the town is the uncompromising birthplace of the blues, and the highway is the concrete river which took that music north and south, turning it into jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock'n'roll.

In the present case, enhanced portlandite (Ca[OH]2) dissolution from the concrete river basement by water inflowing during wintertime provided exceptional hydrochemical conditions suitable for rapid ikaite crystallization, e.g. of up to 2 kg d−1 m−2 in a particular stream section.

To the left is one of Brazil's sprawling favelas, or slums, which like the mall sits divided from the rest of this humble town by a concrete river.

I think one of the tensions now is this particular cultural interpretation of the concrete river will be forgotten or displaced by this new phase in terms of the cultural appropriation of the river.

And if the savings and insurance assets are freed to chase the best returns on capital, they are highly unlikely to end up paying for concrete river-beds and other public works in LDP constituencies.

It summarizes how the federal government, doing the bidding of large farmers, manipulated water: capturing it and bringing it through concrete rivers, sometimes hundreds of miles long, to where it would irrigate the desert and make it bloom.

It seems intuitive that, whereas Eisenhower's building of the interstates made a long-term contribution to US growth, the measures adopted by the Japanese (concreting river beds etc) in the last 20 years have been less effective.

Bond durability tests on steel-fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite bars (SFCBs) with sea sand concrete and river sand concrete in simulated ocean environments are conducted in this paper, and steel bars are also used for comparison.

The studies show that NARC has superior workability, mechanical properties and affinity compared to ordinary Portland cement concrete with river sand and fresh water.