Road Construction

"Tell Congress to get past their differences and send me a road-construction bill so that companies can put tens of thousands of people to work right now building our roads and bridges and airports and seaports," Mr. Obama told audiences. ❋ Josh Mitchell (2011)

The state-run Xinhua news agency, quoting an unnamed official at the Chinese Embassy in Khartoum, reported that the worker was one among at least 18 who had escaped from a Chinese road-construction camp in the South Kordofan region during an attack by rebels on Saturday. ❋ Nicholas Bariyo (2012)

The kidnapped employees were working on a road-construction project in the region for the Chinese state-owned Power Construction Corp. of China, affiliated with Sinohydro Corp., which didn't respond to a request for comment on Monday. ❋ Brian Spegele (2012)

President Barack Obama recently shifted from calling for a national infrastructure bank that would finance transportation projects and create jobs to saying Congress should pass a bread-and-butter road-construction bill that would rely mostly on existing programs that could get projects under way faster. ❋ Josh Mitchell (2011)

A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Liu Weimin, said China had been in touch with the captured road-construction workers, and described them as in good health. ❋ Nicholas Bariyo (2012)

Some of those ideas include extending a payroll-tax cut and introduction of a road-construction bill. ❋ Jared Favole (2011)

The state-run Xinhua news agency quoted a spokesman for the northern arm of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement as saying it was holding 29 Chinese nationals, who had been working on a road-construction project, following clashes between the rebel force and Sudanese government forces. ❋ Brian Spegele (2012)

The workers, who were involved in a road-construction project, appeared to have been seized amid clashes between government forces and rebels. ❋ Brian Spegele (2012)

Those projects have caused anger in Pakistan, especially when Indian paramilitary forces were deployed to guard Indian road-construction workers in Afghanistan. ❋ Tom Wright (2011)

Separately, Mr. Obama on Wednesday in the Rose Garden will call on Congress to pass an extension of a road-construction bill, according to a White House official. ❋ Jared A. Favole (2011)

The 29 road-construction workers were seized on Jan. 28, when rebels overran a Chinese work camp. ❋ Nicholas Bariyo (2012)

The kidnapped workers—held since Jan. 29—were employees on a road-construction project in the South Kordofan region. ❋ Nicholas Bariyo (2012)

A local road-construction worker, 50-year-old Jerry Leonard, has become the Paul team's trustiest phone-banker. ❋ Neil King Jr. (2012)

Mr. Obama, during a bus tour across the Midwest this past week, began calling instead for a road-construction bill. ❋ Josh Mitchell (2011)

"You have to own up to your obligations," said Danny Rodgers , president of Dunn Investment Co., whose road-construction business and suburban home are connected to the system. ❋ Michael Corkery (2011)

Most road-construction work in the region is being halted between Friday morning and Monday evening, in part to aid traffic flow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Currently president of Ammann Group Holding AG, a closely held company that makes machinery and systems for the building and road-construction industries, Mr. Schneider-Ammann would have to relinquish control of all his business interests if elected to the cabinet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Beaches: Summer isn't just vacation-time, it's road-construction time! ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, in response to the road-construction example above, it might be claimed that the costs and benefits of the impact on travel time couldn't be determined ahead of time by judgement-free summing of prices alone in even the most free-market economy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

1. Hey Bob, I'll be watching the Road Construction this morning so I'll be late to work. 2. Yeah, [sorry I'm] late. [Detour] lasted a lot longer than expected. They gave us some really tough [clues]. ❋ Bob123456789123456789 (2008)

1. [Jeffery] was in bad mood all day because of [road construction]. 2. I was sad to see the end of winter, I'm not very [partial] to [Road Construction]. 3. I was late to work due to road construction. ❋ Michael McKid (2007)

[Son of] a-- not another Utah Road Construction [Project]! and [right on] the way to work too. ❋ Tyler Lake (2007)

[Ugh]... it's road construction season again. ❋ Jerry Blerg (2017)