Sentence examples for lumber from inspiring English sources

Big organisations will, of course, lumber on under their own momentum, but people are looking for other ways to take control and make a difference.

He has also put tariffs on softwood lumber, and has tacitly condoned the efforts of Congress to offer more protection to America's dying textile industry.Then came the farm bill, which two months ago overturned the market-based agricultural reforms that were bravely brought in in the 1990s.

His book is an engaging reminder that, cyber-Utopianism aside, the internet is as much a thing of flesh and steel as any industrial-age lumber mill or factory.It is also an excellent introduction to the nuts and bolts of how exactly it all works.

Some of the homes were lushly landscaped, with hibiscus flowers and orange trees, although others were broken-down shacks interspersed with piles of lumber and rubble.

A furious national rate of homebuilding kept lumber prices high at the beginning of the decade, but as the markets collapsed, so did housing starts.

According to one analyst, Mr Bouteflika "has become isolated, and there is an attempt to lumber him with more than his fair share of responsibility.

He was a local boy, whose father had worked for a timber company, and lumber interests never had to ask a favour twice.

NAFTA insisted that Canadian lumber imports did not constitute a threat to America's wood companies and ordered an end to duties that have raised $2.7 billion over the past two years.

Badly drilled holes can cause decay that stains and ultimately ruins the wood, which is sold as lumber used to make veneer, flooring or kitchen cabinets.

The American government has mainly failed to persuade NAFTA (and other) panels of its case that Canada subsidises lumber.

For instance, Canadians are furious about the softwood lumber dispute (I had to spend an entire month on it in grad school), and are just itching to clobber some Yankees over it.As Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said (warned?) yesterday, "If any American government chose to make the mistake of reopening that we would have some things we would want to talk about as well".