Sentence examples for downriver from inspiring English sources

The 600-year-old Dragon Bridge, which was built during the Ming dynasty and spans the Li about 20km downriver from Yangshuo, is being carefully rebuilt with new stone, while existing blocks that appear perfectly serviceable are discarded.In the shadow of the bridge, locals sit around playing cards, dozing or chatting.

It has also turned an instrument of war into an instrument of art.The day after the armistice that ended the first world war in 1918, the United States Navy began building the US Naval Torpedo station on the waterfront across the Potomac and just downriver from the Naval Research Laboratory in south-west Washington, DC.

Elsewhere, farmers have been prevented from pumping groundwater by lawyers in Kansas, downriver.

As I turn to leave, she points downriver: "There are more people that way living like us".The floods that swept across the Indus river basin last summer brought widespread destruction: almost 2,000 people were killed and 20m others marooned as floodwaters submerged one-fifth of the country's total area.

The Yurok Indians who live downriver still fish for salmon.Farmers.

They were identified as the Chinese crew members of two cargo boats hijacked as they made their way downriver from Yunnan province in south-western China.

The Chinese merchants and ambassadors who visited Angkor in its heyday came by boat from China's coast and then up the Mekong from the delta, not downriver from the Chinese province of Yunnan.Four thousand obstaclesThey did so in part because the Mekong is not navigable much beyond Phnom Penh.

Despite a 50 yuan ($8) entry fee, high by Chinese standards, the halls are often crowded with Chinese couples taking selfies against the best-known paintings, and groups of foreign tourists following professional guides lecturing to them in German and Dutch.A mile downriver on a corniche walk planted with ginkgo trees is Mr Tek's Yuz Museum.

Downriver of the Danjiangkou dam, the water level of the Han River, a major tributary of the Yangtze, would drop, making it more prone to fish-killing algae.

On May 14th the Army Corps of Engineers created that wall of water when it opened up the Morganza Spillway, sending 600,000 cubic feet of water per second into the Atchafalaya River basin but keeping the floods from reaching Louisiana's two big downriver cities and keeping the river itself from changing course.The Mississippi drainage basin is exceeded only by the Amazon's and the Congo's.

Some seem to share his anxiety: Cincinnati, downriver from the Elk via the Kanawha and Ohio rivers, shut its water-intake valves on January 14th.