Sentence examples for digging a canal from inspiring English sources

It begins with digging a canal from the sea.

As early as the 1840s the British thought about digging a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, but were deterred by the hostility of the politics and geography.

The avalanche late Friday endangered construction workers who were digging a canal in Aobamba to divert water from a swollen river.

Yet the emperor failed in another great project: digging a canal across the mountains in the south to link the southern coastal areas with the main body of China.

A hot favourite for the past 350 years was the notion of digging a canal across the Isthmus of Kra, in southern Thailand, which divides the Bay of Bengal from the Gulf of Siam, and India's ports from East Asia's.

As Saudi Arabia has campaigned to isolate its small neighbor Qatar, Qahtani has been the chief promoter of the kingdom's most provocative ideas, such as digging a canal to turn Qatar into an island.

You dig a canal, your expensive workers (specially imported from nonmalaria zones) drop like flies.

The company had not even told the villagers that it was going to dig a canal across their land.

If you wanted to erect a pyramid, dig a canal, fight a war, or harvest a crop, you chose the fittest, healthiest, strongest people you could find.

A French company, which had tried unsuccessfully to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, was eager to sell its right-of-way to the United States.

Engineers dug a canal to reverse the flow in 1900, sending a pungent hello from the citizens of Chicago downstream toward the Mississippi River and St . Louis