infrastructure
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the belligerents realized that attacking this critical infrastructure threatened to create a catastrophic humanitarian disaster.
From Salon
There had been hope of a revival as Germany’s government began to inject fiscal stimulus to spur defense and infrastructure investment.
“By transforming local customer processes into Nordic-wide value chains and reducing, simplifying and modernizing technology systems and infrastructure, Nordea will make more effective use of its Nordic scale,” it said Tuesday.
Repeated attacks on oil infrastructure -- including strikes on major fields in the United Arab Emirates and southern Iraq -- have contributed to the unrest in the markets.
From Barron's
Pakistan, however, denied Afghan claims that its latest attack on Kabul targeted civilians, instead insisting that it carried out precision strikes on "military installations and terrorist support infrastructure".
From Barron's
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