Sentences with phrase «big a wall between»

We were more like professional clergy which helped to build bigger walls between brethren and encourage a clergy / laity system (which is not biblical).

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So if you were to impose a tariff on all good imported overseas to drive up the value of the dollar, it would be the Chinese that would end up paying the biggest portion of the bill building the wall between U.S. and Mexico, and not the Mexicans.

Occupy Wall Street made popular the idea of a country divided between the 99 % and the 1 %, but its really the chief executives of the nation's biggest businesses that are pulling away in the income race and leaving everyone else behind, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.

It's a perennial question, but one that still merits examination, given that one of the big complaints of the Occupy Wall Street movement has to do with the increasing wage disparity between the income / wealth of the top 1 % vs. the rest of us.

Trump's central campaign promise, as you know, is to build a «big, beautiful, powerful wall» along the U.S. - Mexico border, which analysts at investment firm Bernstein estimate could cost anywhere between $ 15 billion and $ 25 billion, requiring 7 million cubic metres of concrete and 2.4 million tonnes of cement, among other materials.

As reported in Chapter 5 of JPMadoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook, Ms. Fleischman is a graduate of Cornell University Law School and, in 2006, after several years of practice at a large Wall Street law firm, she was hired by JPMorgan Chase as a transaction manager.

After a big chorus in which McMillan sings, Nothing stands between us, oh / Nothing stands between us but love now, the music builds to a crescendo, and he sings, Have I tried to scale Your walls in vain?

To them, there is a spiritual connection between the walled - off, $ 100,000 chlorinated hole in their backyard and our last big kick turn in the evolutionary gene pool.

In the long term, though, they should thank LAFC for taking a big swing at a wall every team wants to break down — between MLS and elite European teams.

I've started following up with «drawing the alphabet with my big toe» as follow up to these exercises for my calf and in between sets I stretch my biceps by standing away from the wall with my arms out, hands in loose fits with thumbs sticking up, no then rotating the thumbs to facing down and lightly pressing my arms back and holding for 20 - 30 seconds.

It would add some depth and actually make the room feel bigger because it would soften the contrast between the dark blue sectional and bright white walls.

I played quite a bit of musical furniture around here this winter, and the mantel I refinished ended up fitting perfectly on this little wall between the big picture window and the front door.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

Nine years is certainly not the biggest gap between films in a series (the recent sequels in the Indiana Jones and Tron franchises took a lifetime to come to fruition), but it is nevertheless a long time since Ferrell & Co. brought their off - the - wall characters to the silver screen.

My only complaint is that because Kulve Taroth is so damn big, you sometimes get wedged between cave walls and the monster's body.

Within a decade, the search for justice gave birth to another big idea: Not only would racial walls come down on campuses, no longer would it be right to have major gaps between the academic achievement of white and minority students.

There's a big difference in hydraulics between scraping a thin film of oil at 20 times a second, versus hitting a wall of oil 20 times a second.

The single biggest difference between the Security Plus and the standard model when it comes to the interior is the presence of an internal armored wall just behind the rear - seat passengers; the armored capsule is truncated to not include the rear cargo compartment in the interest of weight savings.

Even if you're not a big follower of industry news, you probably know that huge advances for literary novels are few and far between these days, so this is major news — particularly in the wake of a Wall Street Journal article about low advances for literary authors in the e-book market.

Most companies that started out between 2009 - 2014 have run into one of a number of walls related to scaling — they couldn't capture enough share to make publishers interested, couldn't get big enough to keep investors interested, tried out a business model that didn't work, couldn't raise cash after VCs moved on from ebooks to the next shiny thing, or their parent company didn't see a path to profitability and decided to wind down.

I can't match wits with the wizards of Wall Street, but in my little pea - brain, that would seem to exemplify a big difference between «safe,» blue - chip, high - dividend stocks and CDs or Treasury notes.

If an x-ray shows an enlarged heart, we can't tell from the x-ray if the walls of the heart are thick with narrowed heart chambers (where the blood flows) or if the walls are thin and weak with big chambers or if there is fluid build - up between the heart and the sac that surrounds it.

A Link Between Worlds has the familiar charm of the 16 - bit entry, but also modern touches, not to mention a big twist: the ability to turn into a 2D drawing and slide along walls and around hazards.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

«There's a big wall that exists between the two cities,» Etchen mentioned.

Nowadays distinctions between «photography» and «art» have blurred — Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall and Andreas Gursky are photographers who regularly show in big - ticket contemporary art auctions — but younger artists can be a lot more affordable when photography, rather than painting, is their chosen medium.

His work has also been the subject of important group and solo shows throughout the span of his almost 50 - year career, including Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2013); superhuman, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim (2012); Reenactor, Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA (2012); The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York (2010); 30 Seconds Off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009); Corbu Pops, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2009); Thirty Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2008); Black Is, Black Ain't, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2008); Drawing, Dreaming, Drowning at Art Institute of Chicago (2008); Art After White People: Time, Trees, and Celluloid... at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2007); William Pope.L: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2007); 7e Biennale de l'Art Africaine Contemporaine, Dakar, Senegal (2006); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2004); The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2004); Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York (2004); William Pope.L: the friendliest Black artist in America at ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, DoverseWorks Artspace in Houston, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, ME, Artists Space in New York, and Mason Gross Art Galleries at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ (2002 - 2004); eRacism: Retrospective Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland (2002); eRacism: White Room, Thread Waxing Space, New York (2000); Eating the Wall Street Journal and Other Current Consumptions, Mobius, Boston (2000); and Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 — 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998).

Paintings were shredded, piled, and strewn between folding chairs in Molly Zuckerman - Hartung's The Failure of Contingency (2012); Rosy Keyser hammered sheets of corrugated steel and polycarbonate on a wooden frame in Big Sugar Sea Wall (2012).

It occurred to me last night that there may be a link between the way money is being handled for «the cause» of climate change and the absolute corruption by the heads of the big financiers in Wall St after watching a doco (Inside Job) on the GFC.

I wonder now where the balance is between big windows for natural light, and good insulated walls with windows that frame a view.

As the remuneration at some big firms has jumped significantly during the past year, fuelled by a surge in the salaries offered by several leading Wall Street firms, the increasing divide between what the elite international players can offer and the rest has not gone unnoticed by survey respondents.

It's a big open floor plan room... and between the too light walls, light tile floors, 10 foot ceilings... it's TOO light!

I love the two sofas, but I would pull them away from the walls... closer together with a big coffee table / ottoman between them.

Besides the new wall that was installed (more to come on that), we've painted the swine - colored walls and fireplace (Simply White Benjamin Moore), added some trim around the fireplace (to fill in big gaps between the brick and the drywall), removed the pink blinds (still thinking about what blinds we'd want down here) and installed the new Mohawk flooring.

When my daughter got married, we tore out a wall between the living room and a bedroom to make a bigger living space — now I'm trying to figure out how to paint and decorate the space!

I want to knock out the wall between my kitchen and dining room and make it a big open space (with room to finally put in an island for the kid's to sit at!).

My biggest project I would like to do is take out a wall, or part of a wall between my kitchen and dining room to open up the space a lot more.

What if I actually moved my kitchen to the dining room and opened up the wall between the two rooms a bit more, and put the sink under the big window?

I have already made a few changes in the dining room and am currently working on a hutch to go in the big blanket space on the wall between the two windows.

As for the existing kitchen and dining room, Simon suggested demolishing the wall between them to create a big new kitchen.

I'm not too keen on one big space... I find it so much more difficult to decorate with color, at least on the walls... Just that small division between the rooms gives you so many more options....

If you want your small bathroom to appear bigger, you should create a natural uninterrupted flow between the floor and the walls.

This seamless transition between the walls and floors is, at the same time, one of the biggest bath trends of 2017, so now is the best time to try it out.

You'll want the rug to be big enough to fill most of the space, but remember that at least five inches of bare floor should show between the edge of the rug and the edge of the furniture or the wall.

The mirrored panel on the side of this bath and the almost seamless colour match between the walls and floor tiles combine to make this simple room feel bigger than it is.

After we finished taking the wall down between our living room and family room, to make one big room, I had my eyes set upon the kitchen.

I've had a couple, but my biggest challenge in our home has definitely been this L - wall between our kitchen and living room.

would have loved to see the floor you chose... we are pulling our carpets out in September... hubby does nt want to be inside working on projects during the summer... I can't wait... we've had this carpet for sixteen years, its time for it to go - will be watching for what's next... we will be doing a DIY for our floors... cant afford to pay someone to do it... in the meantime I'm going to try and talk him into taking the wall down between the kitchen and spare bedroom and making that bigger..

So, as I've been decorating our newly renovated house on the lake, surrounded by our wooded landscape, I have begun to strive for a balance between the light and airy white walls and big windows with black accents such as wire mesh kitchen chairs, black kitchen counter stools, a few black and charcoal grey throw pillows on the sofa, etc..