9 sentences with 'infrastructure'
Example sentences and phrases with the word infrastructure and other words derived from it.
• « When Darius I came to power, the Persian Empire was already too large to rule effectively; it was larger than any other empire in the world to date, but there was not enough infrastructure or government to rule it consistently. »
• « Darius I improved the infrastructure, established a postal service and standardised weights, measures and coins. »
• « Borders were maintained (or, as in the case of Trajan, extended), public works and infrastructure were built, and infighting among the elites was kept to a minimum. »
• « One of the reasons the Romans were so effective in assimilating conquered peoples into Roman society was that they built a great deal of infrastructure; being conquered by Rome seemed less of a burden when an aqueduct, public baths and a street system appeared within a generation of Roman conquest (the relative cultural and religious tolerance of Roman culture was also key). »
• « It was the Mongols who ended the Caliphate once and for all, assassinating the last caliph and wiping out much of the infrastructure built during Abbasid rule in the process. »
• « Nor did the new state have the funds to alleviate distress or to undertake public works and infrastructure projects in southern Italy. »
• « In some territories, notably French North Africa and parts of British West Africa, while colonial administrations were racist and hugely secure in their own cultural dominance, they generally embarked on building at least some modern infrastructure and establishing educational institutions open to the 'natives' (although, as in the British raj in India, Europeans jealously guarded their own authority everywhere). »
• « Instead of seeking to directly expand the country's infrastructure, the Qajar state handed out "concessions" to European banks, companies and individuals to build railways, issue bank notes and, in one notorious case, monopolise the production and sale of tobacco. »
• « The youth movement reached its zenith in May 1968. From Europe to Mexico, huge uprisings led mostly by university students temporarily paralysed universities, infrastructure and even entire countries. »