Sentence examples for widened river from inspiring English sources

Located at the first ford above the river estuary, the Old Town of Bremen grew on a sand dune, sited above flood level on the Weser spillway, the glacially widened river channel.

This 120-foot-wide boulevard would have originated from the New Haven Free Public Library, progressed along a widened Temple Street, and terminated at Union Station.

It was also boycotted by the very Islamist forces, including the Brotherhood, whose grievances have widened Egypt's divide.

Other ports along the East and Gulf Coasts are rushing to make significant changes to compete with the widened Panama Canal.

Ms. Daum said residents had been spurred to organize when the State Department of Transportation widened Route 25A about five years ago.

"The galloping increase in world business demands another canal in addition to a widened Panama Canal," Mr. Bolaños said.

Outside the town, Brazil's Odebrecht is building a deepwater port and a container terminal for the giant ships that will soon traverse a widened Panama Canal.

The subway, not the automobile, first widened Houston Street -- specifically, the construction of the east-west crossover of what was originally the IND line in the early 1930's.

It will be the first one in the north of England capable of handling the new, larger container ships that will fit through the widened Panama Canal from 2015.

In a country that once stood as a model for ethnic and religious coexistence in Africa, the general has pursued policies that have dangerously widened Ivory Coast's cleavages.

The spread of Shariah has widened Nigeria's religious and political divisions, and it has caused thousands of deaths in clashes in the last year.