Sentence examples for tough logging from inspiring English sources

In the cab of Alberni Pacific Railway's No. 7, a small, tough logging locomotive that has spent its 82 years on Vancouver Island, Canada, George Williamson — at 78, nearly as old as the engine — notched out the throttle.

Reporting from Port Alberni, Canada — In the cab of Alberni Pacific Railway's No. 7, a small, tough logging locomotive that has spent its 82 years on Vancouver Island, Canada, George Williamson — at 78, nearly as old as the engine — notched out the throttle.

An aroused public impelled British Columbia's then government into new legislation to save old-growth and wilderness areas (so far, 9% in a planned 12% of the province's land), setting tough new standards for logging and increasing replanting.

She has a tough nature & had logged more experience as a leader than any of the others in the Common Market.

Mabey logs the tough fecundity of the margin, where wild nature spurns the advertised reservation and obliterates the laminated notice-boards of sanctioned history.

The government attributed the fall to its tougher stance on illegal logging.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon region fell to its lowest in 23 years in the year through July, the government said Monday, attributing the drop to its tougher stance against illegal logging.

Partly to appease the green lobby abroad, the Brazilian government also passed a series of increasingly tough laws first prohibiting landowners from logging more than 50% of their land, then lowering the limit to 20%.

His party, the Whigs, presented him to the voters as a tough frontiersman, "born in a log cabin and raised on hard cider".

"Our friends were there, laughing and shouting: 'It's about time they honoured you!'" Topolansky's girlhood nickname was la Flaca (the skinny one) but the Tupamaros called her la Tronca (the log) because she was so tough.

A lot of fighters don't like to talk about it, and, even if they did, the hockey culture, with its old logging-camp tough-guy ethos, doesn't encourage them to.