Verges in a sentence

A statement reads: “Historically Thornbury Town Council has funded additional cuts of the grass verges around town, over and above South Gloucestershire Council’s ‘core’ grass cutting provision.

As the author and activist, Françoise Verges, writes in A Decolonial Feminism, "White women do not like to be told they are white.

By beginning to change the mowing regimes through this pilot, we can look to make a start - but there has to be a recognition that all verges are not the same.

Comments have also been submitted from some neighbours, one claiming there is already noise from the site and damage to verges by heavy lorries.

Digital face recognition, surveillance, and even deepfakes are hinted at in this spirited, sometimes hilarious film that verges on a treatise on identity and self-representation.

It’s important that people using the park on foot are aware of the road being opened to vehicles, stay on footpaths and verges and be mindful of children.

Rabbit, hare, fox and mustelidae pass easily through, leaving behind teasing evidence of their passage: trodden paths through the verges, routes taken up immediately across the roadway, tufts of fur caught in strands of barbed wire at ground level.

Small areas of council estate land which serve little purpose, like grass verges, can be bought by residents and turned into parking spaces or extensions to their garden.

The subject matter also feels dated, as Christian and a wealthy benefactor, The Duke (James Bryers), fight over Satine; Christian’s characterisation in particular verges on manipulative, and the language can be paternalistic.

The verges of our motorways and at every traffic junction are absolutely filthy.

While there’s the odd jarring element (chiefly a textual overreliance on the Beatles song “Yesterday” that verges on the hysterical), is striking for how drainingly real it all feels.

A spokesperson from Clare County Council said there will be a backlash from the public if the council maintain the road verges too much.

A total of $4.3 billion has been allocated for repairs to and the maintenance of roads, including patching, and bushing of verges.

Cars are frequently abandoned on verges when parking spaces fill up during the peak summer season.

Councillor Jon Andrews says that, across the county, all too often when roadworks finish the contractors patch up the tarmac but do nothing to repair the verges and other off road areas they have driven over, or dumped their equipment on.

Earlier this year councillors called on officers to introduce fines for those caught parking on grass verges and making a mess of them.

It also encompassed bridge reconstruction and maintenance of road verges.

It was also judged that the commissioners are ‘reactive’ in their approach to weed killing, maintenance of highway verges and street sweeping - which Mr Beckett also deemed a service failure.

Motorists have urged an authority to cut "dangerous" grass verges suggesting "they may have an accident on their hands" if action is not taken.

Slow down and move over away from the animals when they are grazing on the verges.