What's the difference between paved and unpaved?

Paved


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Pave

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
  • (2) And those who hope to lead Labour now seem to be agreed on one thing: that the path back to power will be paved with talk about aspiration .
  • (3) The two companies have pooled their software development resources to create MeeGo, a free software platform which they reckon will pave the way for the next generation of wireless communications devices.
  • (4) Cameron is hoping Thursday’s EU talks over dinner will pave the way for a deal by February, allowing him to have a referendum next year.
  • (5) • Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has accepted a proposal by the German chancellor, Angel Merkel, to set up a “fact-finding mission” that would pave the way for some form of political dialogue in the crisis, according to the German government.
  • (6) The rest of the EU will have a chance to give its response on Friday at talks between senior officials, paving the way for EU leaders to meet in Brussels next week.
  • (7) Perhaps it could help pave the way for the collaboration essential to coping with climate change.
  • (8) Turkey has issued a decree paving the way for the conditional release of 38,000 prisoners in an apparent move to make jail space for thousands of people who have been arrested after last month’s failed coup .
  • (9) The gates may be open but the road to the church that calls itself a friendship and reconciliation centre is not paved with sleek cars or thronged with believers.
  • (10) Although E.ON has said it will not increase bills for customers before the end of 2012, fears are growing that SSE's action will pave the way for other suppliers to increase their prices.
  • (11) The success of Capote paved the way for bigger and more nuanced parts for Hoffman, his turn as the villain in Mission: Impossible III (2006) notwithstanding.
  • (12) The above-mentioned findings suggested that the Er:YAG laser could pave the way for the cavity preparation with acid-resistant cavity margin.
  • (13) His treatment was largely traditional and he tended to ignore contemporary advances in medical science, but his meticulous records of patients and of their response to treatment paved the way for the clinical approach which was to prevail in the future.
  • (14) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
  • (15) Iran's invitation to Syria talks marks significant shift for US and allies Read more Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, has insisted that Assad must go and that, in the first instance, a transitional government agreed to by the regime and the opposition should pave the way for peace.
  • (16) It is almost six months since Michael Grade said he would step back from the executive chairman's role, paving the way for a new chief executive.
  • (17) His refusal to endorse evolution hardly distinguishes him from the other Republican presidential hopefuls, but Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal can point to an unmatched achievement as he formally kicks off his campaign: signing a law that paved the way for creationism to be taught in schools.
  • (18) The most significant of these appointments was Philip Hammond as foreign secretary, who will pave the way for attempted reforms in the UK's relationship with the EU.
  • (19) But that was a clear demotion, unlike Hague whose decision to stand down at the election paved the way for a less onerous cabinet post.
  • (20) For his meeting with Angela Merkel and François Hollande , meant to pave the way to next month’s EU summit, the Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi chose the historical site of Ventotene, off the coast of Naples.

Unpaved


Definition:

  • (a.) Not paved; not furnished with a pavement.
  • (a.) Castrated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
  • (2) Abdel Fattah believes her son will return to the family's flat, down an unpaved back alley in Cairo's Zeitoun district, where his framed portrait sits on top of a bookshelf, when he completes his sentence.
  • (3) From there they were driven north towards the village of La Macarena, a spine-crunching six-hour drive along unpaved laterite roads, where Farc has a string of training camps, some of them big enough to host 600 rebel fighters.
  • (4) A navy helicopter pursued the pickup truck in which Treviño was traveling along unpaved back roads towards the city at 3.45am on Monday and forced it to stop, government security spokesman Eduardo Sánchez told reporters.
  • (5) Walk through the rougher edges of town and you see what they mean: unpaved roads, uncollected rubbish, no running water, patchy electricity.
  • (6) Tests were made on asphalted, unpaved, and packed-snow road surfaces.
  • (7) Três Marias 4km from Aivados beach An unpaved road running through fields of wheat and wild flowers brings you to Três Marias, a 10-room B&B, run by Balthasar Trueb (half-Swiss, half-Portguese in case you’re wondering).
  • (8) With control groups matched for age and similar pre-existing illness, the implication is that unpaved roads resulted in increased morbidity by reducing access.
  • (9) Increasingly the favoured gun battles, which can be watched from a relatively safe distance by embedded journalists, are being overshadowed by the need to drive around unpaved roads of southern Afghanistan which have proved vulnerable to roadside bombs.
  • (10) Using a case-control format, children admitted with bacterial meningitis are shown to have traveled farther over unpaved roads to get to a clinic than matched controls seen at the same time.
  • (11) Amid this sea of shacks, many constructed from corrugated iron haphazardly bolted together, piles of rubbish go uncollected and acrid water runs down unpaved dirt tracks.
  • (12) Cachora turned out to be little more than a grid of mud-brick houses and unpaved streets that petered out into fields.
  • (13) "I want to reassure everyone about my state of health after this incident committed by error by an army unit on an unpaved road near Touela," he said.
  • (14) Roads leading here are unpaved, making the transfer of food and weapons and the evacuation of the wounded difficult.
  • (15) It’s big business, not nature.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Breakfast at Back of Beyond For our trip we deliberately picked small, slightly off-the-beaten track places to stay, so much so that our driver was unconvinced there was any kind of accommodation along the dusty, unpaved road that led to our next stop, the aptly named Back of Beyond , a cluster of bungalows by an estuary.
  • (16) Winning tip: The Pelion peninsula, Greece This peninsula on the Aegean is crisscrossed with a network of ancient kalderimi (stone donkey paths) and monopati (unpaved footpaths).
  • (17) Particles were collected using dichotomous stacked filter units placed on 20 m towers to reduce the influence of dust from unpaved roads.
  • (18) The 84 wind turbines erected just south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, tower above an arid landscape of grassland and unpaved roads, inhabited mostly by small-scale farmers, who – along with 77% of the country's population – lack access to electricity .
  • (19) In the present study, a previously undescribed geographic factor--unpaved roads--is shown to be a clinically important barrier to access.
  • (20) Most of the usually choked routes in and out of Kabul were almost empty, but on one baking, unpaved road in Kapisa province we came across a group of 10 men halfway through their two-hour walk to their nearest polling station in a distant village surrounded by uncleared minefields.

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