Shanghai's road network was improved and expanded considerably beginning in the late 20th century, notably with the construction of a network of express highways in and around the city.
Despite the hasty construction of a network of earthen dykes, in an effort to contain the muddy seepage, 12 more villages are in pressing danger of being swamped.
Construction of a network of roads and canals was begun, and fortresses erected for defense against barbarian invasions from the north were linked to form the Great Wall.
These ruthless measures, and Kitchener's strategic construction of a network of blockhouses across the country to localize and isolate the Boers' forces, steadily weakened their resistance.
By the time Nungesser went to Pass a Loutre, he had become fixed on a plan: the construction of a network of artificial sand dunes, or berms, to block the oil.
Communication facilities were undeveloped before 1947, but the merger of a number of feudatory states with what was then Orissa and the discovery of mineral resources required the construction of a network of good roads.
In Ipojuca, contractors on state projects are luring workers from other government investment priorities, like the construction of a network of concrete canals in the Sertão, the semiarid hinterland in northeast Brazil.
That panic peaked with the boom in postwar suburban development and passage of the federal highway act of 1956, which poured billions into the construction of a network of roads that spurred the exodus from cities and transformed the nation into a society dependent on cars.
