Sentence examples for of a causeway from inspiring English sources

Access to the city was very difficult until the opening of an airport on the mainland and the building of a causeway for road traffic.

Mr. Hersh suggests that General McCaffrey deliberately pro voked the fighting by deploying his troops in front of a causeway over Lake Hammar and, thus, along a likely Iraqi retreat route.

Another man interjected: "When we were children, we were told legends of a causeway covering the river for miles because the gorges were too narrow to get the camel caravans in any other way.

Quebecers want to see reconstruction of a causeway that was built over Missisquoi Bay on Lake Champlain to allow a free flow of pollution out of the northern portion of the lake to dissipate.

This was after Mr Badawi scrapped his predecessor's plan to replace Malaysia's half of a causeway linking it to Singapore with an oddly-shaped half-bridge, which in turn followed failure to agree terms with Singapore for replacing the whole causeway.

Deriving its name from local folklore, it is fabled to be the work of giants, particularly of (MacCool), who built it as part of a causeway to the Scottish island of Staffa (which has similar rock formations) for motives of either love or war.

The two-year punishment for Burress is being compared with the 24 days Cleveland receiver Donte' Stallworth served in jail and the one-year suspension the N.F.L. imposed on him after he killed a pedestrian while driving intoxicated near Miami Beach, Fla. We'll never know if Stallworth's inebriation dulled his reaction to a pedestrian walking in front of his car on a causeway.

As well as nine state-of-the-art stadiums, the country has committed to $20bn worth of new roads, $4bn for a causeway connecting Qatar to Bahrain, $24bn for a high-speed rail network, and 55,000 hotel rooms to accommodate visiting fans and has almost completed a new airport.

As John Hemming, the historian, recounts in "The Search for El Dorado" (1978), these visions were based on an astounding precedent: In 1519, Hernán Cortés and his band of soldiers found a causeway that led into the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán — a city laden with gold, with advanced architecture and engineering.

Between December 1931 and the end of 1933, DSHD constructed a causeway across 3150 feet of the marsh on the east bank of the river, a process that required multiple applications of fill dirt and dynamite to create a stable surface for a modern highway.

The Mound, a causeway of rubble and earth from New Town construction, forms the division between the two gardens.