(n.) A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Edward Kennedy lived his life precisely at the crossroads of all that he encountered – at the intersection of statesmanship, of history, of moral purpose, of tragedy, of compromise.
(2) We are at a crossroads in Indian relations with America,” said Zutshi, who heads the Indo-American Community Foundation and is one of a handful of diaspora figures invited to a meeting with Modi on Saturday.
(3) Nursing never seems to get over being at a crossroads.
(4) The former fencer, unknown to most sports fans but an influential figure in German sport and business, takes over when the Olympic movement is at a crossroads.
(5) Georgia lies at the crossroads of eastern Europe and western Asia.
(6) On the same day, a 22-year-old set himself on fire at a crossroads in Aba prefecture, Sichuan, suffering serious burns.
(7) Obama said America was at a crossroads, having spent over a trillion dollars and 7,000 lives fighting wars over the last decade.
(8) Simply, Apple is a gigantic company, and iOS in particular is seen as being at a crossroads: Android has overtaken it in sales terms and many critics say it offers users more flexibility – so what's Apple going to do to stop the iPhone looking fusty?
(9) Sites, in particular in the centre and populated areas, are very endangered and very much at risk.” Long the crossroads between the Sahara and the Mediterranean, Libya consequently houses a unique range of treasures, drawing widely from Christian and Islamic history, the Greek and Roman eras, as well as the desert dynasties that overlapped them.
(10) Lloris is frustrated and finds his career approaching a crossroads.
(11) When you come to a crossroads with the main drive ahead of you, head straight for a short distance and then take the marked path through the woodland on the right.
(12) In the first of the studies, researchers concealed themselves close to a crossroads in the Bay Area of San Francisco and spied on drivers who were expected to stop and wait their turn before driving on.
(13) And it mirrors a broader crossroads in international relations, with continuing economic malaise in the west being counterpoised with an increasingly rapid shift of power to emerging economies.
(14) "The Great Barrier Reef is definitely at a crossroad and decisions that will be taken over the next one, two, three years might potentially be crucial for the long-term conservation [of the reef]," said Fanny Douvere, from Unesco's World Heritage marine programme.
(15) In an early taste of the blood-letting to come, former House speaker Newt Gingrich said he and figures such as Karl Rove – George W Bush's former strategist and co-founder of the Super Pac Crossroads – had been wrong in focusing on the economy.
(16) Ukrainian forces could also respond, they could also take this or that crossroads or village.” Any large campaign by the rebels would almost certainly require the support of the Russian military, which has reportedly kept up a flow of ammunition to eastern Ukraine and deployed troops to lead key operations there.
(17) Released in 2009 to the care of a non-profit group, Crossroads for Women , last week she "graduated" from a four-year treatment and rehabilitation course.
(18) We were lucky that Copenhagen was poor after the second world war Søren Elle While concrete was being poured to create other giant urban spaghetti junctions across Europe , Copenhagen found itself at a crossroads: “[It] has reached a state of development where it is necessary to develop a network of motorways through the city to secure its arterial functions.
(19) There was a lot at stake for both fighters in a crossroads bout for each.
(20) The casket containing Havel's body was being transported from the Prague Crossroads, a former church turned by Havel into a cultural centre, to the Prague castle, the seat of the presidency, where it will be on display until Friday's state funeral.
Railroad
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Railway
Example Sentences:
(1) A review of all railroad-related deaths and significant injuries that occurred in a medium-sized metropolitan area from January 1, 1979, to June 30, 1986, was conducted.
(2) And in the 1840s, American railroads began designating a “ladies’ car” for the exclusive use of women and their male escorts.
(3) Officers took up positions on rooftops and along railroad tracks and scanned the terrain through rifle scopes and binoculars.
(4) Trainmen and railroad clerks were used as reference cohorts.The engineers had relatively high invalidity and mortality rates in comparison to the reference groups, especially with respect to cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors.
(5) One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent" , "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid ... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
(6) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
(7) He said police reports in Sweden showed SW had told a friend, Marie Thorn, that she felt police and others around her "railroaded her" into pressing charges.
(8) Manuel said Obama had done this by designating large landscapes as well as places significant to landmark social movements, including labor activist Cesar Chavez’s home ; the Stonewall Inn , where a 1969 police raid kicked off a new front in the LGBT equality movement; and a park dedicated to the work of Harriet Tubman , a former slave who helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
(9) A total of 25 male railroad and underground railroad car painters were studied.
(10) horns of cars, sirens of emergency vehicles and alarm signals of railroad crossings, and then displays them as vibration to the driver.
(11) With the epizootic situation remaining tense and the danger of TBE virus infection still present, TBE morbidity and mortality rates decreased in the years of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railroad, which was due to greater attention given to measures for the prophylaxis of TBE during this period.
(12) Exposure, smoking, and respiratory histories, chest radiographs, flow-volume loops, and single breath DLCOs were obtained on 383 railroad workers.
(13) On the basis of 1518 values of concentration of glycosylated Hb in blood of workers responsible for safety in railroad transportation authors tried to calculate the range of normal values of this parameter.
(14) Metro North and the Long Island Railroad remain closed today.
(15) The majority are railroaded into the so-called sport from massively disadvantaged backgrounds.
(16) An adaptation of the Palmes personal passive sampler was used to measure the NO2 exposures of 477 U.S. railroad workers at four railroads.
(17) The study indicates a causal relation between urinary stone formation in the investigated railroad shopmen and their exposure to oxalic acid at work.
(18) The 44-year-old railroad worker grew up on the other side of the canal where Paris Avenue meets Treasure Street, a few blocks from Elysian Fields Avenue.
(19) Data from white adult men working for U.S. railroad companies in 1957 to 1960, who were free of pre-existing cardiovascular disease (N = 2,356), were used to study these relationships cross-sectionally.
(20) Our findings are similar; they showed slight positive signs of slowed nerve conduction velocities among the car painters and no increase in EEG abnormalities in comparison to the reference group of railroad engineers.