Sentence examples for concrete roadside from inspiring English sources

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BEIJING — In an effort to reshape rural Tibet, the Chinese government is pursuing a mass relocation project that since 2006 has moved more than two million farmers and other people from centuries-old villages into concrete, roadside settlements that often cut off inhabitants from their traditional sources of income, according to a study released Thursday by Human Rights Watch.

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His body apparently bounced into a ditch on the right side of the road, hitting the ragged edge of a concrete culvert (a roadside drainage ditch) just below the right arm.

For him, creating concrete furniture for roadsides was just as important a challenge as making the perfect coffee table.

A concrete sign by the roadside announces the name of their redoubt, Las Aguilas ("The Eagles"), in white letters.

Another depicts a traffic-control measure, concrete stumps on a roadside, as a line of standing stones.

A truck transferring soldiers and their families hit a concrete barrier on the roadside northeast of the capital, Kampala, and crashed, killing 72 people and injuring 40 others, an army spokesman said.

Last month, Marley was rescued, along with 16 other bears, from a "foreclosed bear park" in Georgia where the animals were kept in cramped concrete pits as a roadside zoo attraction and fed apples and bread by tourists, according to a CSU press release.

"EVER since Model T's first roamed the earth, attention-grabbing roadside curiosities — giant concrete dinosaurs, house-size artichokes and the like — have been luring drivers off the asphalt to enrich community coffers," Mike Stevens notes in Endless Vacation.

The input parameters for the soil and concrete material model were recommended for roadside gravel in crash analyses.

One common type of removable anti-tank roadblock comprised a pair of massive concrete buttresses permanently installed at the roadside; these buttresses had holes and/or slots to accept horizontal railway lines or rolled steel joists (RS Js.

The Mangkaja Agency, which was founded in the early eighties, got its name because the first art-related structure in Fitzroy was a concrete-and-tin shed by the roadside, which was paid for by a small government grant.

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