Sentences with phrase «of better bridges»

Hence, they backed the creation of better bridges, canals and waterways for moving goods and traffic; they experimented with oxygen and gas and hot - air balloons.
One of the best bridges between the classroom and corporate America is an internship.

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The simplicity of the items is a recurring theme, which can be good, but some things are constructed with the amount of care and precision seen in the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
The ECB is perhaps the best hope of bridging the political and economic fault lines in a union where cooperation was supposed to be the hallmark of a new Europe.
Edwards said the introduction on Wednesday of a new version of its Nike + running app should be a bridge between amateur runners and the stars of Rio, offering customized training tips and product recommendations as well as invitations to local events.
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Though it operates with the mission of providing high - quality, low - cost education for all, Bridge has drawn criticism from some education experts and teachers unions for the model it uses to make good on that mission.
The comedian, writer and producer was perhaps best known for «The Larry Sanders Show,» which bridged the gap between TV fiction and the behind - the - scenes world of show business.
The reality of U.S. bridge problems is better reflected where Interstate 270 crosses Fee Fee Creek outside St. Louis.
Companies in this industry lease out equipment for activities related to air, sea, and rail transport, as well as construction of highways, roads, tunnels, bridges, and oil drilling.
Some of that construction involves roads and bridges — Tennessee has some of the best infrastructure in the nation.
So I think part of what's happening both in our conversations and what's happening in the Valley is a bridging between the best of the small companies and the best of the large companies.
So it's easy to see some kind of pickup - only restaurant working well for the bridge - and - tunnel crowd picking up family dinner on their way home from the office.
This was widely interpreted as a rebuke to France's newly minted Socialist president, who is making good on campaign promises to tax the hell out of high - income citizens as a means of bridging the country's yawning deficits.
A massive, long - range infrastructure commitment on the part of the federal govt to support building / rebuliding highways and bridges, interstate train service and hi - speed rail, city mass transit systems, and ports and airports, over minimum 10 years and even better 20, with requirement that majority of manufactured metal components be US - made.
In much the same way most people would never purchase a new car with a 30 - year loan, purchasing quick - turnaround inventory, bridging a seasonal cash flow gap, or ramping up to fulfill the needs of a new contract might be better suited for a short - term loan.
Sagamore's plans call for the eventual construction of a light rail spur into the development, as well as water taxi access and connections via a pedestrian bridge.
One of the city's best attractions is the swinging bridge.
But construction of Russia's portion of the bridge, however, stalled for several years due to funding issues, questions over the recipients of construction contracts and ownership structures, as well as permit difficulties.
The Bridge Group does as good a job as anyone in monitoring the pulse of the sales development world.
It's time to move forward and replace this critical piece of aging infrastructure with the effective and well - canvassed bridge alternative already underway.
The vast majority of Android mobile apps available on the official Google Play Store that are meant for the management of cryptocurrencies are vulnerable to the most common and well - known vulnerabilities, according to a report published today by Swiss cyber-security firm High - Tech Bridge.
Drawing on the best traditions of Tsinghua and top academic institutions around the world, the curriculum bridges the academic and professional worlds to educate students about leadership and about China's expanding role in the world.
Ezra Klein: It's interesting, because that's actually a very good bridge to... You brought up Singapore at the beginning of our conversation and I have a big obsession with the Singaporean healthcare system, too.
Housing affordability topped the list, identified by 40 per cent of respondents, followed closely by the need to invest in public transit as well as broader transportation infrastructure, such as roads, bridges and highways.
This is certainly good news for our roads, bridges, schools and other public works, many of which are in sore need of a spit shine.
Trump Jr., as well as being at the center of the personal corruption that forms the heart of Trump - era governance, has long been his father's bridge to the sleaziest portions of the right - wing internet.
Victoria won the «Best Young Business 2012» award from the Association of Scottish Businesswomen, and is an ambassador for the Power of Youth - an initiative that bridges the gap between the entrepreneurs of the present and those of the future.
Two of Broward's top elected leaders, one Democrat and one Republican, came together Thursday to consider how best to prevent a repeat of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre — but they couldn't bridge the deep and wide gulf between them on...
If tapping home equity is only a temporary solution to bridge the gap until you start to draw down your retirement assets or start receiving guaranteed income payments, consider applying for a home equity line of credit while you're still employed and more likely to qualify for the best rates.
Improvements in the plan include better service on existing SkyTrain and bus routes, light rail transit in Surrey and Langley, Broadway Corridor rapid transit, replacement of the Pattullo Bridge and 11 new B - Line routes throughout the region.
Dave has a unique blend of HealthIT and consumer Internet leadership experience that is well suited to the bridging the gap between Health IT systems and individuals receiving care.
Well before dawn the first day, I took a bus to the Tiber and stood on the bridge colonnaded with Bernini's angels, watching the sun rise, glinting orange off the still surface of the water.
The themes in it [are] the ever - present themes of adultery, as well as a pretty heavy drinking theme in the song (which probably comes from the fact that I drink pretty heavily), but the most interesting part of it to me, the thing I was most excited about when I wrote it was the bridge toward the end of the song where there's a car fire in the parking lot and all that stuff and the comment «what a cruel God we've got.»
But Truth and Method opens with a verse of Rilke on the «eternal partner» and «the great bridge - building of God» for good reason: «establishing the ontological background of the hermeneutical experience of the world» was the work's ultimate objective.
How the wonderful mercy of a forgiving Lord has helped you but that you need and they need to bridge that gap between your remorse that is eating you alive and the embrace of those you love and that love you, I wish I could say this better, May the Holy Spirit soften any hard hearts and may you feel this day the incredible embrace of our Father who loves us so much and who forgave all of this before we were even born.
Such a model of teaching is patently not perfect, but it does a better job than did the classical paradigm of bridging the gap between the discipline of New Testament studies as it actually exists and the students we actually face.
Franklin's music has always been unique in the gospel scene because, while his content is undeniably Jesus - focused, there's always been an aspect of his production that's bridged with the best mainstream sounds.
Healing, and building bridges??? Really??!! Where these terrorists concerned about healing and bridge building when they blew up the building that killed my cousins (firefighters) and best friend (and her unborn child)??? Please - how about what the people of NYC want and all of the families that were affected by this tragedy around the nation?
The claim that the UN resolutions suffice to assure «just authority» is belied by destruction in Iraq unrelated to freeing Kuwait (bridges, roads, municipal water and sewage systems) and by restatements of war aims (asking Iraqis to replace Saddam Hussein, demanding unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial) which go far beyond the UN objective (note as well the elements of bad faith in the UN appeal to which Geyer pointed).
Just as touch bridged the gap for infidelity to poke its nasty head in the case of the pastor and young lady, there are countless other nonverbal factors that if not stewarded well, have the potential to lead to marital infidelity.
Those groups do a better job of bridging racial lines than the church does.
If, as Walsh himself writes, «the great challenge is to find a means of bridging the gap between... personal growth of the soul and the common ethos,» (313) then the Christian and modern evocation of the mystery of personal existence must not lose touch with the insuperable bond between the good of the soul and the good of the city.
(CNN)-- After years of bridge building with the Catholic Church, the Obama administration may have damaged some of the good will it built up with the nation's 70 million Catholics, which could have steep consequences at the polls in November.
Now there are a number of important footnotes to Aristotle, but I simply wish to draw attention to the point of culmination of the tradition, that period bridging the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that saw the production of the grand synthesis of the Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, as well as its poetic embodiment in The Divine Comedy of Dante.
Not good, why neglect things which are edifying to the christian life, that would be an unhealthy focus on evangelism in the place of discipleship, just do both I say What if, instead of starting Christian Coffee Houses, Christian Work - Out Centers, and Christian Bridge Clubs, we started just going to these places that were already in our community and meeting the people who go there?
It must live with regenerative awe and wonder in the midst of the strange turnings that transform victory into defeat and defeat into victory; the humbling ironies and the intractable conditions within both people and nature that shatter the best laid plans and destroy the bridges of our hopes.
It was a case of believing that one area had what another lacked and of being at a time in history when I felt I could personally act as a bridge that permitted the transfer of that good from one area to the other.
They also serve as a bridge language that allows Catholics to join forces with men and women of good will to protect and promote human dignity.
Ultimately, the Arian / feminist dislocation of meaning from words results in either a remotenessof God which can never be accessed and whose gap no creature (not even the Logos creature of Arianism) can ever hope to bridge (i.e. Arianism); or it means an immanence of God who is one with creation and its articulation in such a way that every articulation of meaning can be surpassed by a further better one, as evolution / God evolves to a higher state of being.
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