road-builders

And as we discussed his endeavors -- whether it is his passion for Cuban art or sponsoring the creation of a guide on how to build an earthquake resistant house or his effort on improving the living conditions of Indian road-builders in Bhutan -- I was moved and grateful that people like this exist.

Misha Lyuve: The Man Behind the Rubin Museum of Art Misha Lyuve 2011

When those road-builders, bridge-builders, and school-builders get some money in their pockets, they may do more for automakers than any bailout can.

David Quigg: Bailout Brainstorm 2: More Ignorant Questions from a Confused Citizen 2008

Despite calls in both parties for fiscal restraint, road-builders group launches campaign to build support for massive increase in infrastructure spending.

Democratic Turnout 2007

The people of Segelfoss Manor came up to watch the road-builders at work.

The Road Leads On 2003

And because the state depends on ditch-diggers and prison guards and janitors and road-builders for its very being, then if these classes of people are no longer available, and the very survival of civil society depends on their existence, in the end, the state will just _take_ them.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

Three shikarees died that afternoon, ambushed in the high woods, and that night, when the road-builders camped in one of the grassy upland valleys, some shots were fired from a neighbouring wood.

Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

The memory and the moment boil away with the mist and shadows as the sun clears the southeast edge of the canyon rim and glares upon the road-builders.

The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

He looked wildly up at the frowning wall, where the road-builders of old had cut the rock sheer for many fathoms above their heads.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Some of them remain today a monument of Roman thoroughness, enterprise, and sagacity, -- the wonder and admiration of modern road-builders.

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

A little later they coolly sent in a request to the road-builders to go outside to continue urgent work of a similar character.

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot