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  • Pawlenty also had a bridge fall down on him just a month after he vetoed a bill (a bi-partisian effort) to raise the gas tax a few pence so as to deal with the backlog of Bridge and Highway problems.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • On "Fox News Sunday," Knowles accused Palin of "always" being a supporter of a $400 million bridge in Alaska, often derided as the Bridge to Nowhere.

    A Day of Debating Palin's Qualifications 2008

  • Continuing, the island is far enough of the Seward Peninsula and the water so inhospitable, that a bridge would be completely unfeasable unlike the Bridge to Nowhere, in question, which would link a major consumer hub in SW Alaska with its AIRPORT–though I am not in favor of that, either.

    You CAN see Russia from here! 2008

  • On "Fox News Sunday," Knowles accused Palin of "always" being a supporter of a $400 million bridge in Alaska, often derided as the Bridge to Nowhere.

    A Day of Debating Palin's Qualifications Post Editor 2008

  • The dollars meant to build a bridge from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Gravina Island, became a source of contention once detractors labeled the project, "the Bridge to Nowhere."

    OpEdNews - Diary: The Change Candidates 2008

  • And this week, I'd like to highlight another bridge project in the 4th Infantry Division zone, and this picture that you see up is the Al-Sandia (ph) Bridge immediately following the war.

    CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2003 2003

  • A common carpenter, under the direction of the teacher, could make models for instance, of Cæsar's bridge, and of some of the Roman engines of war; and then that Bridge chapter, now the terror of

    North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

  • Struck Robinson road at Renfrow's -- crossed Lobutcha at bridge by fording -- reached Hudson's ( "Refuge") at about 10 o'clock -- he is on a branch of Martin's Creek, (a stream of clear, cool, delicious water,) 4 miles from Hooper's Bridge.

    Diary of Jason Niles (1814-1894) : June 22, 1861-December 31, 1864, 1864

  • To McPherson was assigned a country bridge near the mouth of Connasene Creek, to Thomas one four miles southeast of Kingston, known as Gillem's Bridge, and to Schofield two pontoon bridges to be laid at the site of Milam's Bridge, which had been burned.

    Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864

  • It derives its name from the bridge which here crosses the river -- Inn's Brücke (that is, the Inn's Bridge).

    Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

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