Cesare Beccaria

Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.

Italian Judge

H. G. Wells

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

English Author

Lance Loud

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

American Actor

Luke Goss

I'm a Londoner. Embankment. Big Ben. Cab drivers.

English Actor

Denote embankments as preventive constructions in discussions about controlling natural elements.

Preventive Measure

Emphasize embankments in conversations about civil engineering and landscape planning.

Engineering Context

Remember that embankments can also be natural features shaped by environmental processes.

Geographical Feature

Understand that embankments are critical for infrastructure, supporting roads and railways.

Infrastructure Importance

Railway embankments often elevate trains for better views and to keep tracks level.

Viewpoint Significance

Remember embankments may be natural slopes beside roads, not just artificial structures.

Not Always Man-made

Road embankments can act as safety barriers, preventing vehicles from straying off paths.

Safety Feature

 I began to explore conditions of poverty in a country that was on its way towards modernization. I spent a good deal of time with a man who lived with his family on a railway embankment and had lost an arm and a leg in a train accident.

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 with lines in the center of town running in tunnels, and suburban trains operating on the surface, often on embankments. But London was still growing, and everyone wanted to be connected to the system. By the late 1880s,

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 and the government has repeatedly delayed projects to build concrete embankments that would prevent further erosion. In other parts of the world, people couldn’t move inland even if they wanted to.

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 on a poorly designed road in Pennsylvania, and plummeted down a 200-foot embankment and killed two people in the car. But ever since then, the wheelchair has been a given in my life.

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 And they asked me to join a crowd of people that were running up and down this embankment. Why? Because the path I had taken was considered out of bounds. No sign to this effect.

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 and white body went tumbling over the embankment I am fed to her third in the family law that polecat don't paid off he went spinning into infinity he went

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 excavate build embankments and dig tunnels always trying to keep themselves hidden from you they clear the highway of large pieces of soil that might slow

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 your seat belt B steer your car into an embankment to keep it anchored in place for C abandon your car and run for high ground

Mudslide Mayhem PIPE...

 excavate build embankments and dig tunnels always trying to keep themselves hidden from you

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 Gudivada says oh she's claiming up an embankment now and disappeared