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Designed by the French Vietnamese architect/ civil-engineer Quasar Khanh.
Worst of NYC Craigslist SPECIAL EDITION: Whither Salesmanship? BikeSnobNYC 2008
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COOPER: President Bush fears, the 49-year-old civil-engineer - turned-savvy-politician is hoping to turn the Islamic Republic of Iran into a superpower, equipped with weapons of mass destruction.
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COOPER: President Bush fears, the 49-year-old civil-engineer - turned-savvy-politician is hoping to turn the Islamic Republic of Iran into a superpower, equipped with weapons of mass destruction.
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So great was this opposition, that the projectors were fain to lay out their road for four miles across a remarkable Slough of Despond, called Chat Moss, where a scientific civil-engineer testified before Parliament that he did not think it practicable to make a railway, or, if practicable, at not less cost than £270,000 for cutting and embankment.
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A mixture of military and civil-engineer administration and operation is mentioned as unsatisfactory in results.
Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute Theo. F. Rodenbough
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Of these three, Cavour, the civil-engineer with the short-sighted eyes and the steel-rimmed glasses, played the part of the careful political pilot.
The Story of Mankind 1921
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Sanitary act, had married his youngest sister Letitia; and of his two youngest brothers I may add that Alfred, also a civil-engineer, became one of the sanitary inspectors, and that Augustus was now placed in a city employment by Mr. Thomas Chapman, which after a little time he surrendered, and then found his way to America.
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844
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For a civil-engineer and land-surveyor not to know that!
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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Dodge added that he was impressed with the number of people at the airport supporting the airmen, including other members of the civil-engineer squadron who held banners for the returning service members.
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