How To Use Navigable In A Sentence
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Master Thorne, in the sixteenth century, expressed the resolute spirit of that energy in a phrase: "There is no land uninhabitable, nor sea innavigable"; and in every part of the globe this British spirit has applied itself to many a land that looked hopeless at first, and has frequently found it to be one:
Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
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The pub with the most atmosphere is tiny Turf Tavern, which you get to by following two long, creepy, almost unnavigable alleys off a winding back street.
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This was a side effect of the Industrial Revolution; many of our rivers were canalised and made navigable during the C19th which stuffed it all up with weirs and locks and pollution.
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Trapped, they chose to paddle three miles down the coast to Waimea, where they hoped the deep-water bay would provide a navigable channel.
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It may be the country's longest river, but it's also practically unnavigable.
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The nearest paved road is an hour away; in winter, the maze of rutted dirt truck trails hereabouts is nearly unnavigable.
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In Newcastle the Hunter River is navigable by what I will call 60-mile colliers right up to Hexham and those colliers used to carry coal from Hexham down to Sydney.
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These are the two main navigable waterways leading to ports in Iraq.
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However it appears to the Environment Agency that the ancient navigable status of the Thames at Hedsor has never been extinguished by statute or by any other competent authority.
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The short films, no longer an endangered species, are archived on an easily navigable Web site.
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Silt levels in Sligo Harbour have been cause for grave concern in recent years, and the current levels mean the port may soon become unnavigable.
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As we explain in this video, the new site reformats the extensive information found in our iconic Ratings charts and their accompanying product pages to make them accessible and easily navigable on just about any phone that offers web access.
New Consumer Reports mobile website offers complete Ratings
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These are the two main navigable waterways leading to ports in Iraq.
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The mountainous topography and the lack of navigable waterways were an almost insuperable obstacle to the movement of passengers and freight.
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Drift courses are comprised of incredibly tight decreasing-radius turns, and are almost innavigable as road courses.
Speed:Sport:Life
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The Danube River, Austria's only navigable waterway, flows from southeastern Germany across northern Austria.
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-- Street patterns must be easily navigable and latticelike, with blocks that are not too big and intersections that are not too far apart.
Terms, mind-sets must be changed to encourage and enable more walking in cities
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France alone has almost 4,200 miles of navigable waterways.
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It is white, vast, apparently endless and utterly unnavigable, the setting for an anxiety dream.
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Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood.
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Take, for example, recent stories on a new unnavigable cubist Web site, or how the 14 remaining Netscape users are excited about the next big update.
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By our English law there is a public right of passage through our navigable channels, whether in a port or the approaches to it.
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the river was navigable for 50 miles
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There were networks of roads, tracks and navigable watercourses.
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It was bounded by two rivers from seventeen to thirty metres wide, and navigable for boats three to five kilometres.
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I may be in the minority of web users but if they can't be bothered to provide a navigable site, I can't be bothered to visit their cinema.
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Which Acheron furrounds, th 'innavigable flood: J Conduct me through the regions void of light.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
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With thousands of miles of navigable waterways, the state leads the nation in waterborne cargo, handling some 500 million tons a year.
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Seven major rivers cross Suriname, many partly navigable by large ocean-going ships.
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No country is arterialized by such a vast system of navigable streams, to have constructed which as canals of equal capacity would have cost more than ten billions of dollars, and then these canals would have been subjected to large tolls, the cost of their annual repairs would have been enormous, and the interruption by lockage a serious obstacle.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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With its action, the state's highest court has potentially granted exclusive fishing rights to anyone owning land traversed by a recognized navigable waterway.
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But luckily there are very few poachers there because the Mpassa River is completely unnavigable until the stretch near the reserve - there are rapids everywhere.
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The sun was a cool lamp in the black sky, the stars torches shining across unnavigable distance.
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It is a great playing game that is highly suited to the console platform with its simple controls, easily navigable menus and great graphics.
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Bayou toward Deer Creek, and so far as explored these water courses were reported navigable for the smaller iron-clads.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
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Being perplexed by the great losses he was continually sustaining through the Portuguese superiority at sea, the sovereign of Calicut made overtures towards an accommodation; and in a treaty of peace gave permission to the governor-general to build a fort in the island of _Chale_, in a river that falls into the sea about three leagues from Calicut, which is navigable by boats all the way to the foot of the _Gaut_ mountains.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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Tributaries were difficult to survey because they remained frozen longer and often became unnavigable soon after water levels dropped following the snow melt.
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Strange looking ships set sail from ports to vanish over the horizon, unfettered by the lethal and unnavigable reefs that so restrained the Hub ports.
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But there are concerns that the proposal could cause channels to silt up and become less navigable for leisure craft.
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But here it challenged man to essay a fall; for where it burst its way over rocky slopes were channels jeopardous and hardly navigable, sequences of foaming rapids, races of wild water swirling round opposing boulders, and careering indignant of restraint between long walls of beetling rock.
Apologia Diffidentis
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navigable waters
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But much of the journey has to be done on foot and in a variety of land vehicles: parts of the river, as it falls from its great height at the roof of the world, are unnavigable, while other sections are off-bounds.
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Time and again, Web readers are left overwhelmed, bogged down by big blocks of text, unnavigable homepages and user-unfriendly features.
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More to the point, the remnants of his ill-starred crew had struggled across a permanently frozen strait and died in a region, I knew from my research, where no navigable passage existed.
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Many of our informants emphasized how important it is to have an easily navigable Web site.
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The navigable scenes were then saved to a CD that is now stored at the county courthouse.
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Brazil should spend that money by building more ports and making the rivers navigable.
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The British contention was that the wording of the Treaty provided first, that the channel should separate the mainland from Vancouver Island; second, that the boundary should go through it in a "southerly" direction; and third, that it should be navigable.
The Oregon Boundary Question
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On the other hand, screens on a Web site could be intuitive and navigable by anyone.
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Such commerce on the national scale was made possible by China's system of navigable waterways, partly natural and partly man-made.
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It was no cabin cruiser, but with the rudder salvaged from the Minnow, and a mast and sail added, the boat should be navigable.
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A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may in most cases be both made and maintained by a small toll upon the carriages which make use of them: a harbour, by a moderate port-duty upon the tunnage of the shipping which load or unload in it.
I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
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It's only navigable with the mouse and, even then, you're only able to close it.
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a navigable channel
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Ice buoys in the U.S. are found in navigable waterways prone to freezing.
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Indians say the barrage would maintain the water level up to 4,000 cusecs round the year, thus making river navigable between Baramulla and Srinagar.
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Should there be an issue we will of course make whatever engineering adjustments are necessary in order to preserve the navigable channel.
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They provide a navigable foundation enabling the logical, intuitive access of data.
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Similar declines in arctic sea ice reportedly occurred at the turn of the 20th century, when the Northwest passage was also navigable, and during the 1940s.
Matthew Yglesias » Wednesday Arctic Ice Blogging
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Their longships could sail in very shallow water, and the navigable rivers that so benefit trade in Europe proved to be watery highways that allowed the Vikings to strike far into the interior of the continent.
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Waterways: Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo rivers are navigable by oceangoing vessels for 150 km, 100 km, and 80 km respectively (2006)
Guyana
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And the next step is to make a very navigable, browsable website where people can experience the Penny Project, and the pictures and the people, and spend a few minutes on it and hopefully get the idea and feel compelled to be part of it.
Nicole Garton: Ingenue Interview: Ugo Nonis
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There were networks of roads, tracks and navigable watercourses.
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To Deakin's knowledge, no one else has succeeded in navigating a stretch of water classed by the Royal Navy as ‘unnavigable’.
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And rural migrants took up bamboo poles and skeins of rope to join the so-called "stick-stick army" of porters, looking to haul bags of groceries or sacks of concrete mix along unnavigable inclines.
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Except at the season of floods, it is not navigable; but the alluvion through which it flows is very productive, while the pine forest immediately to the west is sterile.
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War
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Seven major rivers cross Suriname, many partly navigable by large ocean-going ships.
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When the carriages which pass over a highway or a bridge, and the lighters which sail upon a navigable canal, pay toll in proportion to their weight or their tunnage, they pay for the maintenance of those public works exactly in proportion to the wear and tear which they occasion of them.
I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
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Storefronts are empty, the restaurants quiet, the streets-where you once had to fight your way through crowds-are now easily navigable.
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A month since the Elbe was cleared of ice, and now, contrary to the expectation of all, the cold had returned to such a degree, that it was a second time innavigable.
A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part
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Bricole, it turned out, are the wooden posts sunk into the lagoon floor to mark the intricate network of navigable channels.
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With thousands of miles of navigable waterways, the state leads the nation in waterborne cargo, handling some 500 million tons a year.
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The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land to its best use, has found all the capabilities, the arable soil, the quarriable rock, the highways, the byways, the fords, the navigable waters; and the new arts of intercourse meet you everywhere; so that England is a huge phalanstery, where all that man wants is provided within the precinct.
III. English Traits. Land
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And I have never found big buildings particularly imposing or unnavigable.
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The seas were rough, but still navigable.
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The bridge's walkway is curved, so that when it swings up to make a navigable passage and the arch above it swings down level with it, the pair of them form a barrel vault, its surface defined by the horizontal cables joining them.
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That stretch of river is too shallow to be navigable.
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The tarmac then gives way to a stony track which is navigable by most pushchairs, assisted wheelchair users and powerchairs.
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It turned roads into unnavigable debris fields, and triggered floods and landslides that left communities deluged and cut off.
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Upper Lough Erne is connected by canal to the Shannon navigation system, the largest navigable inland waterway in Europe.
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The River Lea has been an important navigable waterway into London for over 500 years, and during the 18th century the navigation was much improved with new cuts and locks.
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By 1700 the Virginia frontier had been pushed as far west as the fall line—the point upstream at which the rivers emptying into the Atlantic became unnavigable.
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• A waterway is navigable if it has a bed and banks and it is possible to fl oat a canoe or other small craft at sometime of the year — even if only during spring floods.
Wisconsin's Wet Feet Law
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What the canny locals had done was to remove the bricole, the stout wooden posts that mark the navigable channels.
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Our Deputy Head asked how far the river was navigable downstream of Hairatan.
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Haven't we all, at some time, had to face the near trauma of parking aside for hours waiting for flooded roads to become navigable?
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An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
Essays: Second Series (1844)
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The streets are ordered and navigable, but not to the point of becoming mundane.
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Under federal law, the lands under navigable waters belong to states.
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That stretch of river is too shallow to be navigable.
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Here they made camp and prepared for the 18-mile portage necessary to bypass the unnavigable Great Falls.
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1Although inhospitable, the Cedarberg is far from uninhabitable or innavigable.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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It's not too flashy but is clearly navigable and easy to understand.
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On the west coast of Mexico near the town of San Blas is a limestone spring called La Tobara, part of an inviting system of lagoons, canals, and navigable tidelands.
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The ice in the offing was of the "hummocky" kind, and drifting rapidly about with the tides, leaving us a navigable channel varying in width from two miles to three or four hundred yards.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
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I would think that ships probably were a factor in logistics, on the logic that this was the case in the better-documented later Norse wars, and seventh-century ships were also shallow-draughted and capable of shifting men and supplies long distances by sea and navigable river.
Early medieval armies: numbers
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The book is sprinkled with interesting asides, sometimes in footnotes (like one explaining why Africa's geography - its short, shallow coastlines and unnavigable rivers - helps explain ‘the Dark Continent's ‘underdevelopment).’
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The travellers bound to that bourne embark here on steamers that go down the Volga as far as its confluence with the Kama, a tributary stream, and thence ascend the Kama, which is navigable all the way to Perm.
Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
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On the numerous navigable streams, measuring an aggregate course of some thirty thousand miles, which disembogue themselves through this magnificent river into the Gulf of Mexico, the increase of the population within the last ten years amounts to more than that of the entire Union at the time Louisiana was annexed to it.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom
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The destruction of the woods, to say nothing of its effects upon the rainfall, caused the top soil to be washed away, and thus impoverished the arable land, filling the rivers with earth, rendering them innavigable, and converting them from gently-flowing streams to devastating torrents, which annually bestrew the valleys and plains with sand and stones. [
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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By our English law there is a public right of passage through our navigable channels, whether in a port or the approaches to it.
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And they kept the website looking sharp and easily navigable.
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"Pennywort is now choking the Long Pond to such a degree that parts of it are unnavigable and will soon become indistinguishable from the surrounding green fields.
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Its aim is to manage, maintain, develop and restore the inland navigable waterways in Ireland.
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The whole of New England and the Upper Midwest is all closer to either the Atlantic or the Great Lakes ports, not to mention the navigable rivers.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Wherein, To My Great Surprise, I actually Agree with James Hansen
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The depth and the supply of water for a navigable canal must be proportioned to the number and tunnage of the lighters, which are likely to carry goods upon it; the extent of a harbour to the number of the shipping which are likely to take shelter in it.
I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
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Countries such as the United States argue that the increasingly navigable waterway should be treated as an international strait, not Canadian waters.
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A chain blocked the navigable channel, secured on one side by the city walls and on the other by a tower on an island close to the shore.
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A chain blocked the navigable channel, secured on one side by the city walls and on the other by a tower on an island close to the shore.
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In the first, navigable waterways fueled endless migrations and the resources to sustain human ingress.
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The map in evidence in this case shews that the place occupied by the allowance for highway in 1866 is now underwater; it has become by degrees part of the navigable waters of Lake Erie, and as such the soil is vested in the Crown.
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In medieval days the river was navigable from Portarlington to its debouchment at St Mullins.
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‘But if the Intracoastal Waterway becomes unnavigable, suddenly you're going to have half the recreational boaters that use it, say 8,000 boats, forced out into the ocean,’ said Smith who is also AIWA chairman.
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Compare that to Stamford Bridge or Highbury, for example, where more fans go by tube, and the local roads are a little more navigable.
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• A waterway is navigable if it has a bed and banks and it is possible to float a canoe or other small craft at sometime of the year — even if only during spring floods.
Wisconsin's Wet Feet Law
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The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land to its best use, has found all the capabilities, the arable soil, the quarriable rock, the highways, the byways, the fords, the navigable waters; and the new arts of intercourse meet you every where; so that England is a huge phalanstery, where all that man wants is provided within the precinct.
English Traits (1856)
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On the other hand, screens on a Web site could be intuitive and navigable by anyone.
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For water, it is walled and guarded with ye ocean most commodious for trafficke to all parts of the world, and watered with pleasant fishful and navigable rivers, which yeeld safe havens and roads, and furnished with shipping and sailers, that it may rightly be termed THE LADY OF THE SEA.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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You must get your little stickman through a variety of minimalist levels, sliding platforms around the screen to create a navigable route and solve puzzles.
The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) – part one
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With the firm supporting his move, Donahoe was able to show colleagues and clients that while his arrangement was unusual, it wasn't unnavigable.
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The Atlantic facade offers warm, mostly navigable seas, a complex, mineral-rich geology, and spectacular biodiversity.
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The water in those waterways - whether a stream, river, bayou, or even a lake or reservoir built astride a navigable waterway - belongs to the State of Texas and is held in trust for the public.
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The seas were rough, but still navigable.
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They became unnavigable either because of neglect or because dams were built for irrigation.
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The easily navigable Website organizes its archive into four parts, running chronologically from pre-publication to response.
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With the Vikings, you have the added wrinkle of it being a right pain to transport horses by ship; or you could turn that around and say that the longship plus a long coastline and a lot of navigable rivers provided the Danes with some of the speed and mobility more traditionally provided by cavalry.
Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure
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Its caldera is one of only two in the world that are navigable.
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Watch out for boats on any navigable river.
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Its caldera is one of only two in the world that are navigable.
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Watch out for boats on any navigable river.
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Six miles above the whirl are the Chiccamogga towns, on tlie banks of the liver, and of a large creek of the iame name; from thefe towns to. .the mouth of the Hiwaffee is fixty miles by water, and about forty by land; this river is a louth branch of the Tcnneilee, and navigable till it penetrates the mountains on its iouth fide.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies
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Trapped, they chose to paddle three miles down the coast to Waimea, where they hoped the deep-water bay would provide a navigable channel.
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The navigable scenes were then saved to a CD that is now stored at the county courthouse.
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The Chattahoochee was too shallow to keep barges afloat in the navigable waterway south of Atlanta.
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Create a simple, clean design for your web site that is easily navigable.
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In response, Mr McCulla claimed the sizeable installations would threaten boats using nearby fishing grounds and render large areas of the Irish Sea unnavigable.
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Roads have become unmotorable, traffic unnavigable, and the state government, unresponsive.
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Europe is famous for having so many miles of navigable waterways, so the Viking ships could and did travel far inland.
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According to the request for tenders, the websites have to be navigable in English and Irish and should be able to support content in French, Spanish and German.
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Nothing showed under the innavigable depths of Sara's eyes.
Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange
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The road is rough but easily navigable in most hire cars (a 4WD jeep might prove more comfortable).
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The trust's ultimate aim is to restore the canal, as a continuous navigable waterway.
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All the large affluents of the Amazonas, which drain the great plains, are navigable to a considerable extent.
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Nigerians rarely transported locally brewed alcohol outside the area of production except where navigable waterways allowed.
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British Waterways, which has to keep the river navigable, is under pressure to remove the silt after complaints that boats are bottoming on the river bed.
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Many of our informants, from novice Internet users to tech savvy veterans, emphasized how important it is to have an easily navigable Web site.
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Some long stretches of navigable river could in fact be used only in winter, when the water was high; and fish weirs placed by riparian landowners could impede progress at any time of the year.
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Navigable along virtually its entire length, the Nene has many locks and associated backwaters giving the river a wide range of habitats.
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This is where the river splits into three main navigable channels to the Black Sea, two natural and one man-made, giving captains a choice of routes with distances varying from 35 to 70 miles.
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Moving the boats and equipment on water was always the preferred option to portaging or carrying everything including boats overland between stretches or bodies of navigable water.
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Although heavily pitted and badly repaired, the motorway was still navigable.
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Brazil should spend that money by building more ports and making the rivers navigable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Collaborative Virtual Environments are systems that transform computer networks into navigable and populated 3D spaces.
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And despite it being a navigable waterway, in the whole day we saw about eight boats.
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By the mid-20th century, many were in such disrepair that they were unnavigable.
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We have a statutory obligation to make sure that certain waterways are navigable.
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Public policy is becoming increasingly reliant on scientific findings, but the differences in the way policy makers and scientists think, communicate, and approach a problem can often create an unnavigable gulf.
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The common boundary between the States of Arkansas and Mississippi in the Mississippi River is the thalweg, which is the middle of the main navigable channel followed as the principal course of downstream navigation.
