Sentence examples for use of railroads from inspiring English sources
"The extension and use of railroads, steamships, telegraphs, break down nationalities and bring peoples geographically remote into close connection commercially and politically.
Accounts of the American Civil War (1861 65) often mention the use of railroads by both sides to supply armies and to move large numbers of troops from one combat area to another.
Theodore Levitt, academic (1925 2006), "The Globalisation of Markets", Harvard Business Review, May 1983"The extension and use of railroads, steamships, telegraphs, break down nationalities and bring peoples geographically remote into close connection commercially and politically.
The system was necessary because the increased use of railroads for passenger and freight transportation required standardizing how time was kept over large regions instead of individual locations.
Additionally, nonoccupational exposures may result from the use of railroad ties in landscaping, burning of creosote-treated scrap lumber in fireplaces or woodstoves, and ingestion of contaminated groundwater (ATSDR 2004).
Ms. Vstovskaya said Mr. Nazdratenko had proposed several agricultural projects to Mr. Kim during the Russians' visit to Pyongyang and hoped to encourage new business, including the use of Russian railroads for trade with North Korea.
Among many other things, the Civil War marked the first significant use of the railroad as a military tool.
And so many commuters make use of the railroad station that the wait for a permit to park there is four to five years.
Tsutsumi has done his bit to encourage the use of his railroad by cleverly placing the Seibu Dome so far in the countryside that it takes several hours to return to downtown Tokyo by car or bus.
By 1880, through elimination of competitors, mergers with other firms, and use of favourable railroad rebates, it controlled the refining of 90 to 95 percent of all oil produced in the United States.
He realized that the logistic support of an advance from Veracruz would require the use of the railroad.
