Sentence examples for ditches of from inspiring English sources

"Twenty years ago today our country fell into deep ditches of darkness," said Rwanda's minister of foreign affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo.

Those pits are significant: excavations often uncover objects buried in an apparently ceremonial manner, including caches of special items placed at the bottom of the ditches of henges.

So the police commandos received new weapons, vehicles and orders, and new bodies began to fall in the woods and irrigation ditches of the Imphal valley.

The road, narrow and swooping, shouldered by deep ditches of grass, felt like a private bike track, riders shoulder to shoulder across half its width.

For South African Jews, aware of the corpse-filled ditches of the Europe they had fled, the knowledge of the 69 blacks cut down at Sharpeville in 1960 was discomfiting.

The drainage ditches of Ajegunle are frequently blocked, and during the rainy season they overflow into houses and across streets, which fill up with sludge, sacks, scraps of clothing, and plastic bags, so that some of Ajegunle's streets seem to be wholly composed of trash.

We evaluated impacts pertaining to replacement of open drains by subsurface drainage, removal of main ditches, rehabilitation of old drainage systems, and maintenance of ditches.

Many opponents of the ditching of cheques are concerned about the effects on elderly people.

Since last week's ditching of the euro peg the price has risen to $7.54.

3.15pm: The Santorum surge is running into the ditch of campaign realities.

This joyful ditching of my religious obligations happened shortly before we moved to Hawaii.