How To Use isthmian In A Sentence
- A lock canal can be built which will meet all requirements; it can be built deep enough and wide enough to accommodate the largest vessels afloat; it can be so built that transit across the Isthmus can be effected in a reasonably short period of time -- in a word, it is a practical project, which will solve every pending question involved in the construction of a transisthmian canal in a practical way, at a reasonable cost, and within a reasonable period of time. The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906
- Vast commercial and political consequences will follow the opening of the transisthmian waterway. The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906
- In no way was the arrangement to impair Colombian sovereignty over the Isthmus; Colombia was to remain the sole protector of the Isthmus and of the isthmian transit against domestic obstruction. The Path Between the Seas
- Butler alleged that his thin Marine units bled less to aid isthmian residents than to advance American corporations' interests.
- Such proposals as acquiring Hawaii, the Dominican Republic, and the Danish West Indies came to nothing at the time, as did plans for an isthmian canal and a worldwide telegraphic communications network.
- The clear specific intent was to safeguard for Colombia its sovereignty in perpetuity, a guarantee for which Colombia had been willing to grant to the United States the right to create an isthmian transit–rail or canal. The Path Between the Seas
- Controversy reigns, cards of both hues proliferate and crazy scorelines litter nearly half-a-century of Isthmian League rivalry.
- He had either referred to the Nicaragua canal or the isthmian canal, never to a Panama canal. The Path Between the Seas
- I sympathize with all those who in other days, laboring for an isthmian canal, had but one star to guide them– Nicaragua–and who must now naturally feel like giving up an old friend to pass it by. The Path Between the Seas
- A 400-character mask inscription dating from the Mayan period appears to refute earlier claims to have translated Isthmian script.