Sentence examples for highways build from inspiring English sources

Instead of using the money to expand highways, build schools and increase mental health services, Mr. Rowland said, it is more necessary to close what his administration estimates to be a $350 million budget deficit that could further widen before the end of the current fiscal year, on June 30.

In the 1990s the government began construction of limited-access highways built to European standards.

Last year, for the first time, it gave states free rein to charge tolls on new highways built with federal help, or on new lanes added to existing ones.

Mr. Shehadeh in the book saves his harshest judgments for this spreading web of segregated highways, built after anti-Israel attacks.

Cyclists are used to seeing new highways built, but they seldom find the old ones closed off to cars and ripe for two-wheeled takeover.

But the construction of an early phase of China's national trunk highway system 35,000km of highways, built from 1992 to 2007 at a cost of $120 billion—suggests that is not always the case.

Originally limited to 40,000 miles (64,400 km), the system incorporated existing express highways built to its specifications, whether toll or free, but by far the largest part resulted from new highway construction financed mainly by the federal government.

"The whole city was entombed by the artifacts of its glory days," she observes of the disintegrating waterfront, the bankrupt mills and "silent" smokestacks, the highways built for a population long gone.

As precedents, besides the G.I. Bill and housing aid that benefited his grandparents, Mr. Obama cited Abraham Lincoln, who backed railroads and land-grant colleges; the public works of the Depression era; and the interstate highways built after World War II.

Interstate highways built both predictable supply chains and consumer demand for US fast food restaurant chains such as Howard Johnson's and McDonald's after World War II (Schlosser 2000).

The first of several highways built as an alternate to El Camino Real was the Skyline Boulevard, which was added to the state highway system in 1919.