Sentences with phrase «country roads with»

Homes on main roads sell for less than homes on country roads with less traffic.

We clocked many kilometres of challenging country roads with a decent stretch of freeway in between and came up with not - so - surprising results.

On country roads with lots of bends, and when making turns, the driver experiences a benefit in dynamics due to the more direct layout.

· Endurance testing in the Swabian Alb region: The vehicles are loaded up to their permitted gross vehicle weight and driven on country roads with numerous uphill and downhill gradients, placing extreme loads on the transmission and drive train.

The 2.0 - litre and 2.4 - litre petrol and 2.0 - litre turbo - diesel models were each driven on a course taking in town and country roads with an extended gravel detour.

The simulation considers whether the car is traveling at a low speed through the city or on country roads with a higher average speed.

It's as effortless to drive on the highway as it is on narrow country roads with a suspension system that does a good job of smoothing out the bumps.

Though inevitably doomed, this outrageous heist makes for a striking cinematic image, like something out of a Kelly Reichardt movie (or perhaps French director Michel Gondry's cabin - on - wheels road movie «Microbe & Gasoline»): a wild - eyed woman with nothing to lose, racing down country roads with her 8 - year - old son in the front seat and a full - scale home fishtailing behind her.

But, remember, when your aim is an ideal summer weekend upstate, the best rule of thumb is to wander and not rush, taking the time to drive along country roads with no destination in mind.

and when i was a wee little boy, i once was walking along a country road with my slingshot, and a cop stopped and took it away from me, saying it was a real weapon.

She begins each day with a 20 - minute meditation, a green smoothie made from the contents of her garden, and a walk on her country road with her dog, Trixie.

This is basically a terrifying sniper survival movie on a dusty country road with no one around.

There are few bigger thrills than barrelling down a country road with the sound of a wailing flat - six behind you, same can't be said of the Alfa's flatulent 4

Great on a mountain road, or a winding 2 lane country road with the top up (or top...

Forty - five minutes outside of San Antonio, Texas, a yellow sign sits on the side of a country road with a curvy arrow warning of the not - so - straight path ahead.

Athlete Sarah once ran for glory, but when she finds herself alone on a country road with an injured knee, second place is as good as last.

The trial judge's basic analysis had been that the speed of the first defendant had been too fast for the nature of the road — it was a country road with numerous bends and reduced visibility due to roadside vegetation.

However, I once encountered a small country road with a turtle crossing it and sat for twenty minutes, waiting for the turtle to finish crossing the road so I could continue.

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On country roads, high beams are your friend — but after long stretches with no oncoming cars, it's also easy to forget you have them on.

«One Belt, One Road» is a sprawling and ambitious foreign - investment project designed to boost China's trade and diplomatic ties with more than 60 countries in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa.

Behind the wheel of a manual - drive Jeep, she ably sped through Reykjavik, past Bjőrk's house, and out along Iceland's Ring Road, with the country's windswept hillsides rolling off in every direction toward the freezing ocean.

China is building infrastructure developments — and relationships — with many countries as part of its Belt and Road Initiative.

Only a handful of cities, starting with Beijing four months ago, were allowed to pilot road tests, but the country hopes to keep pace with the U.S. in the global race to develop autonomous vehicles.

China's bankers and government researchers say most countries along the route of the «Belt and Road Initiative» did not have the money to pay for the projects with which they were involved.

«There was not a lot of maintenance done to roads,» says Sterling Smith, an analyst with commodity broker Country Hedging in Minnesota.

Even before the deal, Weston already had the power to close a mega-merger with a handshake in a van on a country road.

Hector Valdez Albizu, Governor, Central Bank of Dominican Republic, spoke with Global Finance magazine editor Andrea Fiano about the country's fiscal and monetary policies, relations with the IMF and the road ahead for Dominican Republic's economy.

Up a winding mountain road in California gold country, hidden by groves of redwood and pine — along with pockets of humanity living off the grid — is a reservoir with the cheapest water in America.

This constituted 43 percent of global electric car production and made China the country with the largest number of electric cars on the road, surpassing the United States.

Working with its allies and partners in Europe, the U.S. should seek to respond to the Belt and Road Initiative by providing alternative financing mechanisms, especially for countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Given the size of the Chinese territories, the country borders with a majority of the countries along the one belt, one road.

With increasing number of Chinese enterprises expanding their activities in countries along the trade routes, some they are doing more harm to China's image than promoting the one belt, one road.

Certain Western European countries are even toying with the idea of a «Digital Silk Road,» which places an emphasis on developing ICT and digital connectivity platforms to deliver services like e-commerce and e-medicine to harder to reach regions that are still currently underdeveloped.

Companies thinking about taking advantage of Canada's participation in the TPP can think not just about current members but also countries they want to do business with that may join down the road.

But the country's most popular vehicle over the past four decades would surely be in demand with more workers out on the roads, factories and quarries.

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In Addition: A parallel determinant is China's effort to lessen its holdings of U.S. dollar reserves, by signing infrastructure agreements (denominated in yuan) with countries participating in its massive, long - term New Silk Road project.

In his opening speech to the forum on Tuesday, Xi said Belt and Road pacts had been made over the last five years with more than 80 countries and international bodies.

«Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery taking place in every state across the country,» said Kevin Burch, co-chairman of TMAF and president of Jet Express, Inc. «With 3.5 million professional truck drivers on America's roads, the industry and truck drivers are in a valuable position to help identify and report possible human trafficking cases.

BRIDGING THE GAPS By Gordon Platt Jordan has a difficult road ahead as it implements economic and political reforms as part of an IMF loan package and deals with the spillover from unrest in neighboring countries.

He hoped to reach a remote tribe, thought to be one of the last on Earth to have no contact with the outside world, but was discovered by a Christian missionary worker at a remote airstrip in the heart of the country where roads have been cut off because of tribal fighting.

Sam Hunt's «Body Like a Back Road» is the No. 1 song on the country charts and Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's hit «Despacito» share similar keyboard sounds and backbeats with DJ Khaled's No. 1 hip - hop song «Wild Thoughts» featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller.

Yet it is surely a sign of the impoverishment of common culture and the common good — and an index of the degree to which liberal order has succeeded in establishing itself as both — that we are virtually required to equate love of country with devotion to the animating philosophy of the regime rather than to, say, the tales of our youth, the lay of the land and the bend in the road, and «peace and quiet and good tilled earth.»

Consider your taxes to be the RENT you have to pay to live in this great country with good roads, etc..

How would any country in the mid east react if I and 30 Christians hoped in planes and took out 3000 people... (I am not Christian and would likely not ride in a plane with that many neurotic people, but for arguments sake... personally I think religion is the fastest road to hell, but that's another debate)... the answer is simple... Jihad... how do I make such a simple 1 word answer... Ayatollah in Iran... he has a Jihad panic button... Osama Bin Laden... he has one too... that dude in Iran that no one knows or cares how to pronounce... has 2... one for the world and one for Israel... and pretty much anyone with keys to a mosque.

The site features warm and fuzzy snapshots of winding country roads and rustic cabins along with links to a cornucopia of social welfare programs the foundation funds - from foster homes to kids» camps to college scholarships - that would seem to be the furthest thing from controversial.

In a country obsessed with security checks, I was surprised that he waved us through, carefully replacing the chain that blocked the road behind us.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

As you leave the area for the open road, roaring along with the rest of the traffic, the priest turns to you seriously and begins to talk about his country.

From controlling the foreign Affairs of Afghanistan after the 1st Anglo - Afghan war to drawing the Durand line between the Pashtuns after the 2nd Anglo - Afghan war, Why should the Afghans trust the British when the forefathers of Afghans fought against the Empire and today you send your royal family member on military expeditions in Afghanistan, why good have you done for any other country you have entered into militarily - what good can you do for Afghanistan when you have never been sincere with Afghans, Afghan never bought the story of Britain entering the war to eliminate poppy fields, the world is aware poppy production increase where British are present and Afghans know very well the British empire introduced poppy growing over 200 years ago to Afghanistan for transport through silk road and on to Hong Kong.