Sentence examples for passing construction from inspiring English sources

They rolled up their sleeves and tightened their belts, hoping that a flash of brawn would bring passing construction vans to a halt.

Ms. Bottigheimer added soil, sometimes flagging down passing construction trucks to score clean fill, and planted a dense row of lavender rhododendrons against Ms. Stephens's yard.

The lanes follow the East River shoreline from the southern edge of Greenpoint to Division Avenue, a few blocks from the Williamsburg Bridge, passing construction sites, parking lots, a lumberyard, the Zafir Jewish Center for Special Education, and Schaefer Landing, a luxury residential development with a 26-story tower.

So when the organisation department of the central committee of the Communist party of China announced that Ji had been fired for "suspected serious disciplinary violations", and when the People's Daily put the figure for the sum that Ji had allegedly embezzled by passing construction contracts to friends at 20m yuan ($3.3m), many here greeted the news with a wry grin.

The Beckers were asleep inside when a passing construction worker saw smoke and pounded on the door to wake them up.

Houllier argued that his team paid Arsenal "too much respect" in the match and blamed his full-backs Xavier and Traoré for not providing width, adding: "We need to have more flow in our game, more safety in our passing construction".

Approaching along Half Street Southeast from the nearby Metro subway station, they pass construction sites and billboards that tell of a neighborhood being transformed.

For all the talk of "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects when the stimulus first passed, construction projects made up a comparatively small slice of the package, and many required considerable administrative spade work — planning, permitting and contracting — before actual dirt could be turned.

Ms. Max mostly drove fine, but was startled slightly when passing a construction site and then again when two cars momentarily boxed her in.

New equipment (namely a Caterpillar Excavator), as well as the expertise of Andy Newman, an engineer who was hired when he demonstrated his abilities with the machinery upon passing a construction site on his drive home.

Most have contributed to campaigns to elect trustees or pass construction bond measures, records show.