Sentences with phrase «just as highways»

She sees both natural and built environments as having a strange similarity; just as highways and roads expand, vines creep up the sides of old houses.

Just as highway funds were set to run out, Congress passed a highway bill and President Obama signed it into law July 31, 2015.

Not exact matches

Project proponents must ensure that 20 years hence, their hospital, highway or police station will be just as sound as they were at the ribbon - cutting.

«These «moving billboards,» each seen by as many as 16 million peopler per city, are sending a message every day that our industry is more than just large vehicles on the highways,» he said.

Not long ago, technology and automobile companies were talking as though the time was just around the corner when human drivers would be sharing the road with cars and trucks barreling along the highways under machine...

Yes and plow the snow off of and fix the highways, pay the army and all the other things the government does for you as well — or tell them just to charge it — oops, wait they been doin that for years because no one wanted to pay for them.

That is what Jesus did, it's really simple, there is no pro-gun Christian as they are not Christian, just another servant of the devil and on a highway to hell.

Few houses of any size were visible as we raced along the straight highway, just clusters of dilapidated shacks.

One look at its glassy fa √ ßade and redwood trimming would tell you that the Seal Rock is another of the thousands of modern, aseptic motels that are as frequent as empty beer cans along the highways of the South and West, and it is in just such places that the professional golfers and their families like to bed down when their tour hits town.

If BFS stays which is looking more likely Zarate, Nene, Alfitano are history because they are not wanted under his it's my way or the highway, What a way to watch the collapse of a great club and DS and DG have the nerve to call there selves fans, this is all about business they have millions and not a lot of time to spend it but they intend to walk out of our club with as much money as possible, I just hope we don't end up like Birmingham, Sorry Hugh gone off subject but aren't you getting that bad feeling in your guts.

As I made my way up Highway 101 to work today, I caught just a snippet of the news on the radio — a handful of teenagers had been mauled by a bear in the Alaskan wilderness.

Politically, too, there is likely to be a backlash as the veteran transport consultant Jim Steer wrote recently in Transport Times: «A highways programme that shows a balanced response to users» needs — not just motorists» - has a much better chance of public acceptability».

Former councilman Vincent Orlando was sworn is as highway superintendent just in time for the impending snowstorm.

Just before the meeting, town justice Bruce Blatchly swore in Gardiner's public officials elected or reelected in November: incumbent town supervisor Carl Zatz and town clerk Michelle Mosher, as well as new highway superintendent Brian Stiscia and town justice Robert Rich, in addition to the two new councilmen.

Five pieces of heavy equipment no longer in use by the Highway Department were recently sold, and a multi-year bond initiative is just getting underway to replace them with three new trucks and associated equipment such as new snowplows.

You have pretty good airports all around the country and just over the past 10 years, you've seen a real interstate highway system emerge in China as well.

Just as knowing every detail about all cars on the highway will never predict traffic, tracking every neural twitch will never reveal a specific mental state.

But just as a straight highway can prove to be a veritable cloverleaf of intersecting ecosystems, the story of American leprosy is more convoluted than it seems — an object lesson in the complexity of the natural world.

That's like trying to drive down a highway by just looking at what's 20 feet ahead of you, constantly accelerating and then slamming on the brakes as soon as you see something.

Just think of each of these macros as being a kind of highway to health).

And as for the things that will take us a little longer to learn — like where to get the best sushi and how to navigate the 13 major highways that are all seem to be called the same thing — for that, I'm just winging it...

I could just as easily have nominated any of: Bradley Cooper (American Sniper), Haluk Bilgier (Winter Sleep), Ronald Zehrfeld (Phoenix), Miles Teller (Whiplash), Ryo Kase (Hill of Freedom), Louis Koo (Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2), Viggo Mortensen (Jauja), Joaquin Phoenix (Inherent Vice), Fabrizio Rongione (La Sapienza), Jason Schwartzman (Listen Up Philip), Michael Keaton (Birdman), or Randeep Hooda (Highway).

The opening hour unfolds in a bubble of exhilarating disorientation, laying out the harrowing aftermath of Dallas in elliptical vignette: Jackie cradling JFK's hemorrhaging head, trying to keep it intact, as the motorcade races down the highway to safety; Jackie, adamant about remaining in her drenched clothing, watching as Lyndon Johnson (John Carroll Lynch) is sworn in on Air Force One, just two hours after the shooting; Jackie, still plainly in shock, breaking the news to her children.

The profundity is as flat as a Texas highway, and just as monotonous.

The proposal by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would require small school buses — those that weigh 10,000 pounds or less — to be equipped with lap - and - shoulder belts instead of just lap belts, as current rules require.

Hop up to the all - wheel - drive four - cylinder Acadia, and the city rating stays the same as the front - wheel - drive variant but takes just a 1 - mpg hit on the highway.

While last year's Legacy 2.5 i scored just 24/32 mpg (city / highway) with the EPA, the 2015 model boasts ratings of 26/36 mpg, essentially as good as a four - cylinder Honda Accord (27/36 mpg).

It's addictive and you'll find yourself cruising on the highway well above the fastest legal limits in any state of the Union, just as you'd find yourself in any of its real M siblings.

In addition, the all - wheel - drive Grand Cherokee's maximum towing rating is a prodigious 7,200 pounds — the same as that delivered by the 4 × 4 5.7 - liter gas V - 8 (which delivers just 22 mpg highway).

We would pull over the side of the highway as fast as possible, put the car in park and just wait around 10 minutes and start it back up again.

Just as a driving licence deems you fit to safely drive the public highway, a racing licence serves the same purpose in reference to the track.

Faster highway driving is just as calm and hushed.

In practice, it works as well as you would expect, especially on the eternally clogged highways just north of Malibu.

The Administration's comprehensive infrastructure plan seeks this creative approach not just for transit, but highways, rail, aviation, and ports as well.

We've sampled the forthcoming 2.2 - liter diesel with sequential turbos and can tell you that it's just as good as the 310 lb - ft of torque and 43 - mpg highway rating suggest.

After our run down the twelve miles of Highway 160's closed test track, I exited the Koenigsegg's dihedral synchro - helix doors grinning as if I had just pulled a bank job.

We owned a 2005, 2009 and 2012 model but we loved the last model more from better upgrades and it has a much quieter firm ride to it none never given us trouble with maintenance and oil changes this one seems reliable as well with 33K miles mostly is highway as just had taken into service garage for oil changes and tire rotations.

This, of course, is an even greater concern, since as Floraday notes, «Just 2 mph can make all the difference in the world on a heavily patrolled highway.»

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the opportunity before us today is just as great as it was half a century ago, when President Eisenhower signed the interstate highway legislation into law.

As I write this, Congress has just passed a stopgap measure to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent for another three months.

We had the interstate highway bill [the Federal - Aid Highway Act of 1956], and we collected gas tax and spent it to complete the interstate, but as the years went by, there was an increasing desire to do more than just keep building hihighway bill [the Federal - Aid Highway Act of 1956], and we collected gas tax and spent it to complete the interstate, but as the years went by, there was an increasing desire to do more than just keep building hiHighway Act of 1956], and we collected gas tax and spent it to complete the interstate, but as the years went by, there was an increasing desire to do more than just keep building highways.

As we reported Monday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's new offset frontal - barrier test simulates a 40 - mph collision with a rigid barrier that overlaps just 25 % of the car.

Context - sensitive solutions (CSS) reflect the need to consider highway projects as more than just transportation facilities.

It reeks of smoky, smoldering ash as I drive the Vanderhall Laguna Crystal Cove Edition up Angeles Crest Highway just north of downtown L.A., seeing how forest fires just burned through thousands of acres of trees and brush in the surrounding area.

2013 Toyota 4Runner: «Just as brawny as it looks off - road, yet much better than you'd probably suspect on the highway.»

I heard she had studied public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and had taken a job with the late Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, but only recently I read that she had just been confirmed by the Senate as the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy under Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, having done stints with Senators Charles Schumer and Barbara Boxer and become an expert in matters near and dear to Automobile Magazine readers» hearts - roads, highways, and transportation policy.

42/33 Highway / City MPG Reviews: * Strong value, as just about every feature comes standard; engaging h...

Alright, let me be honest and tell you a few things that I dislike about this car: - Gas Mileage (Hyundai claims it gives you 25 mpg in the city, which is not true, I get not more than 23 mpg in the city for sure)- Traction Control (The traction can not handle the acceleration and the wheels would start spinning, even on the dry roads, not sure what to blame)- USB port - The built in USB port does not support android, at least not in my case, therefore I have to rely on Bluetooth or AUX)- Dull Alloy Wheels - The dullness of alloy wheels for the SE trim does not compliment the car over all, but eh, I can't complain much as it is a BASE model Now, the things I absolutely love about this car: - Great Turn Radius - Beautiful LED lights (even with base model)- Highway mileage (35 mpg even driving at 75 miles an hour, you might get better than 37 mpg if you drive at 55 miles an hour)- Spacious trunk - Great leg room for rear seats - Just enough power to accelerate quickly and merge on to the highways / freeways - Amazing Brakes - Sports, ECO and Normal Mode (For those who do not know, once switched to SPORTS mode, the car's steering becomes stiff as well as the engine along with the help of transmission helps you accelerate the car faster, you actually feel like driving a sports car.

Just as the Corvette C6.R race car has become the benchmark in production - based sports car competition, we believe that the Pratt & Miller Corvette C6RS will set the new standard for sports car performance and luxury on the highway.»

«This has to be the best riding truck I've ever been in — it rode totally smooth on washboard gravel just as it did on the highway, and this thing is quiet.