Sentence examples for lay the ties from inspiring English sources

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The Chinese who sailed to the Golden Mountain of America to lay the ties and tracks of the transcontinental railroad were all men.

The photos being restaged include one of the so-called Gandy dancers, the immigrant rail workers who had to coordinate the rhythms of their movements to lay the ties properly.

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They helped lay the first rail ties.

Portia Walker reports from a town paying a high price for supporting Gaddafi Classified files lay bare the ties between the nations.

Beneath the surface of Japan's ultra-sophisticated cities lie the hierarchical ties that have governed this island nation for centuries and that, at moments of crises, invariably reassert themselves.

As you remove the fence ties, lay the chain fence fabric flat on the ground, without rolling it up.

From a prosecution witness, the jury heard how Diego Rodriguez, a Bronx heroin dealer convicted last week of capital murder, put out a cigarette in the ear of his victim as the man lay hog-tied on the floor of a Bronx apartment.

Believing that the railroad will eventually handle cargo from the American prairies, Omnitrax is investing millions of dollars to lay new ties and new ballast to shore up the prairies' outlet to the sea.

But some still have paperwork, like Felipe Nava, 78, who lives in the Chicago suburb of LaGrange and who came in 1943 to lay railroad ties in Syracuse, N.Y., load ships in Weehawken, N.J., and fix train engines in Bourbon, Ind.

After World War I the defeated Ottoman Empire's most successful general, Mustafa Kemal, took over and made the revolutionary decision that Turkey's future lay in tying itself firmly to the West.

After World War I the defeated Ottoman Empire's most successful general, Mustafa Kemal Mustafa Kemal, took over and made the revolutionary decision that Turkey's future lay in tying itself firmly to the West.

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