The valley of Alaverdi is a crucial way of communication between Armenia and Georgia, crossed by a highway and a railway, and marked by the presence of a huge mining plant. Industrial structures and chimneystacks ...
... a heavy rucksack. He addressed me in French, his only language, and realising I could speak it, he launched into an animated conversation that risked turning into a quasi-monologue. I bet his need of communication ...
... of a complete overhaul of everybody's role in the organisation, mine was one of the hardest to decide – a pretty start – and I was told I could be asked to take over the communication department. Now it ...
... trip because of lack of communication. At some moments I had been surrounded by company and had appreciated it – the beer and chocolate bar someone had invited me to during a train stop, or the interesting ...
... warned. Thanks to a tablet with an online translation feature we quickly got to know each other. They came across as friendly and well disposed to communication. Igor was born in Doshambe, where his family ...
... later extra signs made an appearance in nice frames stuck on the wall thanks to the intervention of the communication department that she had called in. Even if I still didn't deem them necessary, I accepted ...
... maimed Deodara cedar against the lurid night sky, I felt my heart shrink and I shut myself into a silence of incommunication that I have been unable to break.
The question I ask myself is this. I had ...
... showed them some shots just to fill the silence in the lack of other forms of communication. Little Bilal was sucking his mother's breast. When the rain stopped I returned to Reera by a shortcut across ...
... would it be at over 3000 m when I were camping out?
I move to the Bale Mountains National Park and get ready to do some trekking, but communication is not as easy as I had hoped.
The next day the ...
... life are all to be lived individually. As long as all is fine, communication is fluid and rewarding, but when difficulties arise, a barrier made of pride, indifference, prejudice, etc. isolates you from ...
... natal home next door. A handicapped child, his grandson, was sitting in a wheelchair and I tried to establish communication, but the old man dismissed him saying he didn’t understand. There was acceptance ...
I once read a story in an old issue of the Reader’s Digest that impressed me. In 1940’s war-torn London a man wanted to make a phone call, but by mistake the switchboard operator put him through to a ...
... as an alternative means of communication to their first tongue, they only strengthen the uneasiness that is related to handling a foreign language.
An excessive focus on grammar makes the learning process ...
... stations, whether old or new, often make fine buildings. England, the pioneering country, built the first railways as new ways of communication that enhanced industrialisation and improved the life of ...
... interesting. A railway buff colleague of mine recommended it to me. The documents, the photos and the building itself narrated the history of the last 150 years through the development of ways of communication, ...
... this lugubrious attire, which the dark skin makes even more funereal.
Half the country is in mourning on Saturdays, funeral hold-ups encumber the ways of communication. Street processions take place ...
... a lake that extends for more than 500 km to the north, changed the lives of thousands of people for the better or for the worse, and shaped a different landscape forever.
Lake Volta cut communication ...
... own words, themselves a sheer product of convention for the sake of communication, were not enough to convey concepts, and one felt the inescapable urge to add colour by using second-level standardised ...
... power.
Both uses were intended to serve the city of Milan. In fact, the metropolis firstly needed easy communication routes to facilitate the carrying of goods. The amazing Navigli network was devised ...