Sentence examples for river of goods from inspiring English sources

Yet in recent weeks, the delta has also been the scene of an acrimonious struggle over who will control the highways, bridges, tunnels and ports that transport an ever-growing river of goods.

The problem is that while a river of good cheap wine is out there, you may have to wade through an ocean of bad cheap wine to find it.

This was no pickup scheme to sneak the odd container past a customs booth, but a systematic corruption of the port to allow rivers of goods to pass through illegally.

The settlement became a town in 1806, and with the coming of the railroad in the 1870s it became an important hub for the rail and river transport of goods.

The portable spectrophotometer determined that waste waters and sewerage effluents had the highest tryptophan-like fluorescence intensity, urban streams had an intermediate tryptophan-like fluorescence intensity, and the upstream river samples of good water quality the lowest tryptophan-like fluorescence intensity.

Men prefer a short distance to the homestead and to a creek or river because of good drainage and water holding capacity of the field.

Much of the economic base of Jacksonville depends on the river: 18000000 ST of goods are shipped in and out of Jacksonville annually.

The two town houses that Mr. Reilly owns were part of a row of houses built in 1878 and sold for about $8,000 each to people "in modest circumstances who were erratic enough to prefer a view of the river" to good transportation, according to an account in The New York Times in the 1920s.

HAVANA -- On this Communist-run island, the black market is a vast, irrepressible force, an underground river of unlicensed services, goods pilfered from government stores and coveted items carried in from abroad.

Trucking has largely replaced the river in the movement of goods.

All sites in the survey are close to land and river roads, making transportation of goods easy.