Sentence examples for converted cargo from inspiring English sources

In the thrift shops -- most nothing more than converted cargo containers -- mothers search through mounds of musty clothes to buy $2 Superman pajamas for their sons.

You see how much of the past and the future, or one place and another, coexist in our supposedly homogeneous, globalized world, from the Shinto shrines for nature worship above Tokyo's skyscrapers to the converted cargo containers used in African slums as Internet cafés.

Of these, around 10m shuffled through KLIA's satellite low-cost carrier terminal, a converted cargo facility opened in 2005.

She and her husband, Luiz da Silva, 53, had been living in a converted cargo container since their old house in Vila Autodromo was knocked down in March.

Our clinic for uninsured patients like Carlos was actually a converted cargo van that drove the back alleys of the city, stopping behind big-box stores and beneath bridges to repair cuts and scrapes among the city's homeless population.

Dean Whatmoor, a logistics manager, who had been monitoring the test from a converted cargo container filled with computer screens and gauges, admitted that he was a little sad to see the test end.

American also converted its cargo terminal into an international arrivals building.

But the financial crisis in Asia has forced many airlines there to shed older wide-body planes, which are expensive to operate, creating a large number of passenger jets that can be converted into cargo planes at a fraction of the cost of a new MD-11.

So many people flock here that the government converted a cargo train line into a passenger line and opened a new station--Maihama--outside Disney's front gate.

The airline has also proposed selling a sizeable stake in its maintenance and technical arm and converting its cargo operation into a separate unit.

One result was Arapaho, a stand-by system to rapidly convert civilian cargo ships into seagoing platforms for operating and maintaining a handful of Harriers, to be used to augment the number of available ships to deploy upon.