Sentences with phrase «as buildings collapse»

That destruction is front and center in Ruin mode, and I've got to confess that it's a little addictive watching your score creep up as buildings collapse all around you.

But what's crucial here is to see that even an event as tragic as this building collapse does nothing to impugn the company's integrity.

The first moment I watched as a building collapsed before my eyes, I was stunned.

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Bangladeshi family members hold up portraits of missing relatives as they march demanding the wages of missing workers and the death sentence for the building owner, at the nine - storey building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka on May 14, 2013 (Photo: Munir Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty)

«We have so many casualties proliferating of women and men collapsing from burnout, being distracted, depleted and unfulfilled,» says Huffington, who is herself one of those casualties: She collapsed from exhaustion and broke her cheekbone as a result of the fall — an accident that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building HuffPo.

Well - known retailer Joe Fresh is among the brands under the spotlight as a result of Wednesday's building collapse in Bangladesh that killed at least 260 people.

His Tau Investments has chosen as its first target textile and apparel manufacturing in emerging markets, a $ 1 trillion industry that has been in the headlines recently for such disasters as the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh last May that took 1,129 lives.

The Huffington Post founder had collapsed of exhaustion and broken her cheekbone as a result of the fall — a collapse that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building the site, now one of the most widely - read in the U.S.

Even as Bangladesh tries to extricate itself from the Rana Plaza building collapse, the Dhaka disaster that killed more than 1,100 garment workers, one private equity fund is trying to infuse new capital into the economy: The $ 88 million Frontier Fund, a private equity fund managed by Brummer & Partners, a Stockholm - based asset manager.

MILESTONES: BANGLADESH By Udayan Gupta Even as Bangladesh tries to extricate itself from the Rana Plaza building collapse, the Dhaka disaster that killed more than 1,100 garment workers, one private equity fund is trying to infuse new capital into...

Intelligent critics of totalitarian ideologies (such as George Orwell in Animal Farm, Alexander Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago, or Eugene Kogon in The SS State) have traced the collapse of extremely violent states, such as the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, to the lies on which they were built.

A man who died when an old church building collapsed in Cardiff has been named as a 55 year old man from the Welsh capital.

Let it collapse, this lumber room, get rid of it, shut all these shops and booths... And let us again serve God in simplicity, instead of treating him as a fool in magnificent buildings.

There is a greater irony here in viewing these beams as a sign — In the construction of the WTC's, along with thousands of other buildings, beams are joined just like the one in the picture... so really there were thousands of cross-sections holding up the WTC's... yet they still collapsed.

The entire modern sensibility that was built upon the «hermeneutics of suspicion» (Paul Ricoeur) is now collapsing in the face of a relentless suspicion of suspicion as the key to whatever truth is available to us mortals.

This is wrong for two reasons: We're all deserving of love exactly as we are and when we hide the things about ourselves we deem «undesirable,» we're building shaky relationships that eventually collapse due to the weak foundations they're built on.

The match was built up as must - watch TV for Landon Donovan's Everton debut, but ended up being much more about Howard's goal, another Everton collapse and some Toffees injuries.

He better stay coz we r finally building up a squad that may chellenge for real silverware next season (if we get couple more signings say lemar) but if he leaves then our title chellenge building ought to collapse as he is at the depths of it.

And if the euro collapses, the political as well as economic shockwaves will be huge — but the UK's behaviour at this summit and over the course of the crisis will ensure it is not an influential voice in trying to build cooperation out of the wreckage the failure of the euro would bring.

While other right - wing leaders either deserted the cause or joined the left to profit from its structural advantage (which cleverly used Franco's regime to portray the right as repressive and intrinsically antidemocratic) and Suárez «centre party» was collapsing, Fraga's solitary work from 1977 to 1989 to build a united center - right party recalls Tennyson's final line in Ulysses» monologue: «to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield».

Both factors were crucial in building a majority — the Conservatives suffered virtually no net loss to Labour, with 10 losses offset by eight gains, and gained 26 seats as their former coalition partners collapsed.

Nigro is a retired FDNY chief of department, and his long career at the FDNY included assuming operational command at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after his predecessor as chief of Department, Peter Ganci, died in the building collapse.

According to a release from the NIC, the compulsory insurance will cover fire and allied perils like flood, earthquake, the collapse of buildings, storm and as well, legal liabilities of an owner or occupier of premises in respect of loss of or damage to property, bodily injury or death suffered by all users of the premises and third parties.

Six feared injured as newly commissioned market collapses in Ogun A newly built market in Itoku area of Abeokuta, Ogun State capital has collapsed.

What Stevenson saw was the partial collapse of an underground concrete flume built in the early 1950s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of a 3,300 - foot system of enclosed flumes and culverts to protect the village from being flooded by Woods Creek.

Sounding like the nominee - in - waiting that many party leaders consider him to be, Astorino also broadly attacked Cuomo's announced budget as built on «gimmicks» designed to «get across the finish line in November, and then everything can collapse as far as he's concerned.»

Governor Ambode who commiserated with those who suffered loss and injury as a result of the building collapse said since the incident, the state government has ordered the immediate sealing of the construction site and cessation of further construction, co-ordinated emergency rescue of all injured victims and treatment at its hospitals, prosecution of owners of the collapsed building as well as dismissal of some government officials.

As the seams smoulder away, the ground above them becomes prone to collapse — taking with them any houses, roads or other infrastructure built on the surface.

As for how to keep the tunnel walls from collapsing: The spiders studied incorporate silk threads into the tunnel as they build it, so it remains standing even if all the surrounding sand is removeAs for how to keep the tunnel walls from collapsing: The spiders studied incorporate silk threads into the tunnel as they build it, so it remains standing even if all the surrounding sand is removeas they build it, so it remains standing even if all the surrounding sand is removed.

For example, an aerial robot equipped with a radiation detector, 3D camera system, and temperature and humidity sensors could inspect something like the Fukushima nuclear reactors, where the radiation level is too high for humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildings.

As grains build up, the pile grows in a predictable way until, suddenly and without warning, it hits a critical point and collapses.

Six decades ago, Romanians were promised economic prosperity as their country was industrialized, but in most cases, they were left with collapsed buildings, poisoned soils and disoriented communities

Around 59 percent of them died as a result of the collapse of masonry buildings, and 28 % of them due to secondary effects such as tsunami or landslides.

The idea is not to ensure that buildings emerge undamaged but that building collapses do not become «weapons of mass destruction,» as geologist Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado Boulder and computer scientist Vinod Gaur of CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute in Bangalore put it in a paper on earthquake risk in the Himalayan region in Science in 2013.

As Richard Hindmarsh of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge notes, the falling ice debris might build up in front of the collapsing cliffs, and buttress them against further collapse.

Although scientists have stopped short of saying the collapse in the east is inevitable, evidence is building that the world could be headed toward something like the Pliocene Epoch 5.3 million years ago, when sea levels were as much as 40 meters higher.

In some parts of the Arctic, trees, buildings and roadways have started listing to one side, or even collapsing, as soil that was once hard as a rock has softened from the warming that's already taken place.

Ryan and Roverts believe that some or many of the other American scientists must have: (1) foresaken their search for the truth, (2) knowingly espoused false conclusions, or (3) remained silent about the scientific and engineering evidence supporting demolition as the true cause for the collapse of the 3 buildings on 9/11.

Johnson shouts, as he surfs a broken helicopter atop a collapsing building — makes them sound like cartoon characters.

As they Unravel, the civilization built upon them will collapse.

► A gorilla grows quickly to about 20 feet, roaring into the camera and beating his chest until sanctuary staff place him in a cage; he becomes angry and breaks out, smashing walls, doors, windows and equipment, jumps over a building and into the street, smashing an SUV with his fists, and a man points a tranquilizer rifle but does not shoot; police cars cut the animal off as a helicopter with armed men flies by and they shoot the gorilla with large tranquilizer darts (the gorilla collapses, unconscious).

The environments look fantastic, and while the destructible buildings may not be highly detailed as they collapse, they look good doing it.

First up is Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age Of Ultron, giving us first impressions of Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch, Aaron Taylor - Johnson as Quicksilver, and a shot of Hulk and Black Widow by a collapsing building that looks not unlike something from the climax of Avengers Assembled.

Newt arrives in New York, as Percival Graves (Colin Farrell) investigates a collapsed building destroyed by a magical creature.

An impeccably cast Tom Hiddleston stars as a new tenant at a super-modern (by mid-1970s standards, anyway) apartment building on the outskirts of London, who watches his neighbors collapse into post-apocalyptic anarchy and inter-floor warfare.

The Bulletstorm demo introduces a slice of Echomode in which players traverse a collapsed building on the deadly paradise planet Stygia as ex-Dead Echo leader Grayson Hunt.

As the movie begins, their apartment building is in the middle of collapsing from the vibrations of a nearby construction site, and so they flee for new quarters, eventually taking up residence in a just - vacated flat owned by the manager of their theater company.

Using the premise as the scaffolding to build a gangland soap opera that evokes the life of famed Boston gangster James «Whitey» Bulger, Scorsese's film combines two different love interests into one Vera Farmiga and collapses a sordid trilogy into a breathlessly tight story of double lives and second chances.

He has to be — the house of cards he's built collapses if any of the extralegal organizations he's working with gets sick of him — and Cruise plays Seal as breezy with just a hint of desperation.

But Luke Scott's strength with pacing, building an early foundation of uneasiness, starts to collapse as the script resorts to illogical actions in service of the plot.