Hotel building is characterized by the perfect architectural composition: the central segment with the up rushed tower, crowned
with the spire, is balanced with solidity and strict forms of the side wings.
With Spire Elite — You get a choice benefit.
It is this tunnel, combined
with the spire's incredibly thin profile, which inspires its name: Eye of the Needle.
That puts GeoOptics in head - to - head competition
with Spire for the first private satellite systems doing business in space.
I'm surprised it hasn't been replaced
with a spire or minaret.
(In its Michael Whelan-esque watercolour invention, The Cat Kingdom,
with its spires and costume balls, is particularly stunning.)
The white building without any straight lines looks more like a giant child's sandcastle
with spires and playful details.
The early modern sculptor, famously known for The Kiss (ca. 1882) and other sensual and organic depictions of the human form, was enamored
with spired and buttressed French Gothic cathedrals.
Not exact matches
Formerly known as NanoSatisfi,
Spire once hit up backers on Kickstarter to help it build cubesats
with technology adapted from consumer electronics.
The hazy, fantastical mass of lights and
spires that is the Strip was visible in the distance, but he directed my gaze downward, to a drab two - story structure
with papered - over windows and a «For Sale» sign.
As it happens, Jackson is home base to C
Spire, a 26 - year - old telecommunications powerhouse that has grown into the largest privately held mobile service provider in the U.S. Jackson is also the place where bnotions, a growth - oriented Toronto software developer, scored its first really crucial export client,
with a customer loyalty mobile app that quickly delivered the goods.
Cappaert left his job as a researcher
with NASA to co-found
Spire Global, a satellite data company based in San Francisco.
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Adorned
with an American flag that flapped in the breeze, the last pieces of a silver
spire were hoisted to the top of the World Trade Center on Thursday as construction workers cheered its ascent.
With the additional 408 feet, the building would be the tallest in the U.S. and third - tallest in the world, although building experts dispute whether the
spire is actually an antenna — a crucial distinction in terms of measuring the building's height.
With a beacon at its peak to ward off aircraft, the
spire will provide public transmission services for television and radio broadcast channels.
I am sure this is exactly what Jesus wants... I know I do not agree
with a lot of the ways that churches spend money, but is there really any justification of any sort whatsoever to build the world's tallest church
spire?
I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking
with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double
spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.
They sit next to the local
spired church, come complete
with cricket pitch, and look pleasant on a postcard.
I knew the starched white columns of old plantation homes just as well as I knew the
spires of Cinderella's storybook castle, and I'd seen
with my own eyes how, just before a harvest, Georgia's cotton fields could look like a fresh - fallen snow.
But folded into her narrative are small prose - hymns to Oxford, «an old - fashioned city,
with inconvenient buildings and narrow streets...; but her foundations were set upon the holy hills and her
spires touched heaven.»
As Maria says
with pride, the town church is well situated at a distance from the house: «The church
spire is reckoned remarkably handsome.
From the steep slopes of Carmel above Haifa the gaze follows down across the city
with its white walls and red roofs and dark upreaching pinnacles of the cypresses, looking like so many church
spires.
«As I was walking
with several friends, I lifted up my head, and saw three steeple - house
spires, and they struck at my life.
We also held a day of friendly games against the Urban Foxes, a London club for which several of our alumni play, and engaged more locally, working
with Oxford
Spires Academy to encourage young basketballers.
It's one of the truly mysterious mountain ranges in Colorado
with summits rising just shy of 14,000 feet and consisting of what one website described as, «dramatic serrated ridges... riddled
with gnarled, tooth - like
spires.»
So when Everton turned down our initial offer, I was expecting a second bid, a bit of haggling and then for the official site to post pictures of a half naked Mirallas festooned
with stickers and wires as he took his medical at
Spire Roding.
Here, Professor Foot takes a moment to speak
with Politics in
Spires regarding her most recent book.
Politics in
Spires caught up
with Michael Freeden to find out more.
Thanks for speaking
with Politics in
Spires.
It featured contributions from Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in
Spires, DPIR), Chris Gilson (Managing Editor, LSE USApp — American Politics and Policy), Sierra Williams (Managing Editor, LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog), Chris Bertram (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, blogger
with the group blog Crooked Timber), William Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute), David Levy (Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism) and Will de Frietas (Business & Economy Editor, The Conversation).
Cailin Crockett is a second - year MPhil in Political Theory at Oxford University and a Graduate Ambassador for Politics in
Spires; her research engages
with gender, democratic theory and global justice.
Here, she takes a moment to speak
with Politics in
Spires regarding the Occupy protests of 2011, and offers a preview of her forthcoming book.
As part of our exploration of these issues, Politics in
Spires partnered
with Open Democracy in 2012 to run a series on «democratic wealth» which explored debates about how we can build an economy that serves the public good which has now been converted into an e-book which will be launched today.
This new blog, hosted by Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations takes the place of Politics in
Spires, a five - year collaborative effort
with the University of Cambridge.
This article is part of the Democratic Wealth series, hosted by Politics in
Spires in partnership
with OurKingdom.
Politics in
Spires, together
with OurKingdom, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.
The Politics in
Spires blog series «A Separate or United Kingdom» has attempted to contribute to an expanded discussion of the independence debate
with voices from across the social sciences, including law, economics, sociology, psychology, human geography, political philosophy, and more.
As one contribution to this, OurKingdom is partnering
with Politics in
Spires to host a discussion of republicanism and political economy.
Guy Aitchison is a contributing editor for OurKingdom's Great Charter Convention, written in collaboration
with Politics in
Spires.
OurKingdom, together
with Politics in
Spires, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention.
This piece is part of the Democratic Wealth series, hosted by OurKingdom in partnership
with Politics in
Spires.
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What
Spire and GeoOptics are planning also puts them in competition
with COSMIC - 2.
During the third year, through a matching process similar to that used to place medical school graduates into residency programs,
SPIRE fellows are paired
with one of seven traditionally minority - serving universities, where they teach undergraduates (see box below).
However, as a
SPIRE fellow, I have been able to overcome this deficiency
with training and teaching experience.
Oxford has been dubbed the «city of dreaming
spires,» and Polkinghorne is as quintessentially English as the university's famed architecture,
with college towers and church
spires standing side by side.
But unlike most other postdocs, along
with their research training,
SPIRE fellows participate in a number of workshops and panel discussions that provide practical information on how to become «facilitators of knowledge.»
And he thinks carefully crafted conditions could also prevent interoperability issues such as the one that C
Spire faces
with AT&T.
AT&T argues that there are interference issues
with the slice of 700 MHz spectrum that smaller carriers like C
Spire own, and so to protect its wireless customers, AT&T developed its own «band class.»
In the lawsuit, C
Spire alleges that AT&T collaborated
with chip makers and standards bodies to create specifications for devices that run only on its sliver of 700 MHz spectrum.