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highway English
Meaning highway meaning
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Topics highway topics
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Simple sentences
Life is like a big highway.
The construction of a highway will contribute to the growth of the suburbs.
Houses were lined up alongside the highway.
The highway leading to the city is now free of fallen rocks.
This highway saves us a lot of time.
I took Highway 58.
There is a traffic jam on the highway.
Let's find Highway 483 on this map.
The new highway shaves almost an hour off my commute time.
At highway rest stops in Germany, many people eat currywurst with fries.
The highway went on in a large curve.
Almost every day people loose their life on highway A2.
The neighborhood was cut in two by the highway.
The traffic accident took place on the highway.
Yesterday, there was a terrible accident on the highway.
The badly decomposed body of a young girl was found on the side of a highway.
After the intersection, drive onto the highway.
The neighbourhood was cut in two by the highway.
There's been a steady stream of cars on the highway all day.
You can go one hundred kilometers an hour on the highway.
Hornbeams were growing along the highway.
Movie subtitles
Nurse Dyer, would you test me on my Highway Code?
And that, boys and girls, was the beginning of the Lincoln Highway.
As we go down life's highway. you going your way. and I going my way.
Somewhere on the state highway.
It's highway robbery.
I'm going out the back and head Joe off at the highway.
It's a state highway.
I don't like to think of you asking a bunch of thugs for lifts along the highway.
Calling all highway patrolmen. Calling all highway patrolmen.
Last seen on Highway 99.
We didn't pass no wrecks on the highway.
When you get to the refinery, turn off the highway onto the dirt road.
When you leave the highway, turn off all your lights.
The state highway is riddled with signs of an attack, and after we had followed those signs, we came upon this scene of devastation, which could be mistaken for a battlefield.
This must be the main highway.
We need a whole new highway system.
Take Highway 66, and when you get.
Stay away from the freight yards and stick to the highway.
Attention all police officers, highway patrols, and county sheriffs.
You'd better carry me to shore, and I'll walk back to the highway.
Calling all highway patrolmen.
When we get out on the highway, they're gonna let you have it.
The state is building a new highway through the suburbs, and we've brought some pressure to see that it runs out through your land.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're on the Koshu Highway.
As you know, Koshu Highway and the Oume Road start in Shinjuku.
The only tangible asset is a tavern on highway 129.
Since your property's off the main highway, we'll take a private bus.
Off the highway, there's a garage and paint shop run by Art Huck.
News and current affairs
Djindjic himself narrowly escaped a highway assassination attempt only last month.
Instead, it remains focused on Northeast Asia, Tibet, Taiwan, and on its aspirations to move into the Indian Ocean, that great global highway of trade in the twenty-first century.
Meanwhile, America's gun laws contribute to the highest incidence of violent deaths among advanced countries, and its dependence on the automobile underpins a high rate of highway fatalities.
In such circumstances, governments considering a proposal to build, say, a new highway, should regard this as an ideal time.
So why are we not well into a highway-construction boom?
The economist Albert Hirschman once likened a society with recognizably distinct groups to a multilane highway where people are unable to change lanes.
And yet the US Congress shamefully continues to evade its responsibility to fund the Federal Highway Trust Fund and put it on a sound long-term basis, owing to disagreement over how to pay for it.
A similar logic led to the expansion of the interstate highway system.
MADRID - Who has not seen what looks like water on a highway on a hot summer's day?
Except for the weather, the highway has the feel of Switzerland.
The site is a pine forest near an old highway, distinguished by the small, regular depressions in the earth that are characteristic of such graves.
Two of the most extreme cases (but not the only ones) are Argentina and Venezuela, countries that have benefited from high prices for their exports but have managed to miss the highway to prosperity by turning onto a dead-end street.
Nearly 31 years ago, on 25th December 1974, a powerful earthquake flattened towns along the Karakorum Highway and killed nearly 10,000 people.
Like cars on a highway, some may drive more slowly than others, but there are minimum and maximum speeds and all must go with the flow of traffic.
Medvedev's decision to suspend construction of a highway through the Khimki forest near Moscow in the face of widespread civic protest was important.
For many months, Moscow and federal authorities ignored the highway's opponents, so Medvedev's decision was a signal: contempt for the people is inadmissible.
It is worth noting that the US experienced its fastest economic growth since 1929 in the 1950s and 1960s, a time of high government expenditure on the Interstate Highway System, which was launched in 1956.
Maybe the national highway system was more inspirational than the kinds of things that Roosevelt tried to stimulate the US out of the Great Depression.
Higher government spending could stimulate the economy further, assuming that it generates a level of inspiration like that of the Interstate Highway System.
While some issues - for example, a national highway or rail system - require national-level problem solving, many key challenges of sustainable development are best confronted at the urban level.
So far, public reaction has been muted, but a two-week protest by Russia's truck drivers over a new highway toll suggests that popular quiescence may not last.