Sentences with phrase «building a tower of»

[22] Saying a population could go from 6 people (Noah and his wife don't count, they didn't have any more children) to enough people to build the Tower of Babel as it is described in the Bible is absurd.

Why did God disperse the men who built the Tower of Babel?

I suppose in theory, this is somewhat true, but if God was waiting until there was a common language and good lines of communication before sending Jesus, He could have picked no better time than right before humans decided to build the Tower of Babel.

Monoculture is what we had when we built the Tower of Babel, impressed by ourselves in all our human pride.

We build a tower of Babel when we suppose that knowledge is like a jigsaw puzzle.

Build towers of roasted eggplant, sliced tomatoes, and mozzarella, schmearing pesto between each layer.

A child who is building a tower of crackers or dropping carrots on the floor may be telling you he or she is full.

He is trying to put one shaped toy into the other one with the clumsy movements, is building a tower of blocks, assembling a pyramid.

So you've built them towers of blocks and filled Noah's ark with all the animals for the fiftieth time and its only 10 am!

See if she can build a tower of six or more blocks or is coordinated enough to press «pop» beads together or string large wooden beads on a cord.

All of the small, precise thumb, finger, hand, and wrist movements involved in new activities — such as building towers of block...

Build a tower of four sugar cubes.

He scribbles with a crayon, builds towers of four or more blocks, throws a ball, and enjoys filling and emptying containers.

At four years old, most children can complete to following fine motor tasks: Build a tower of nine small blocks Drive nails and pegs Copy a circle Imitate cross Manipulate clay material (rolls balls, snakes, cookies) Hold a pencil with appropriate grasp Tips to help your toddler develop fine motor skills: You can help with toddler developmental milestones.

A puppy can become a well - mannered dog, but he can never learn to say please and thank you, to clean up his room, or to build a tower of blocks.

Or as Amadeus you could build a tower of boxes and stand on top.

So not only can you «place blocks, pipes, lifts and enemies anywhere» you like, but you can also build towers of Goombas, add wings to a Piranha Plant and pretty much anything else you can think to do in the world of Super Mario.

Like building a tower of Vikings, stitching yourselves together to one giant Mega Zombie, or picking each other up with a quick stab in the butt.

Young Swiss artist Cristian Andersen builds a tower of unlikely objects, while British sculptor Gary Webb creates a modular column of colorful painterly blobs.

«The longer the gap [is] between innovations, the harder it is to do the next one; the interval allows time to build towers of defense against change,» Bayley points out.

Not exact matches

The Russian - Canadian real estate developer was caught up in the federal investigation into Trump's ties to Russia after it was discovered that Shnaider received hundreds of millions of dollars by a Russian state - run bank which may have helped pay for building the Trump Tower in Toronto.

Since launching Raleigh Construction Company (now Raleigh Enterprises) in 1955, he has acquired, developed and managed more than 11 million square feet of real estate across the globe, reimagining dormant plots of land and run - down commercial buildings as resort hotels, residential apartments, office towers, shopping centers and film studios.

It raised $ 4.4 billion in funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund over the course of several months; bought the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building for $ 850 million to serve as its new headquarters; is adding a second headquarters at the new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco; led a $ 32 million funding round in New York startup The Wing; and has bought several other startups, most recently spending $ 200 million on Meetup.

For instance, in the 29 - storey Central Point towers, built three years ago, a handful of tenants finally moved in last fall, according to a property manager.

In a press release, MoMA says the tower will require almost no energy or carbon emissions during the creation process — «a building that grows out of nothing but earth and returns to nothing but earth.»

Instead, the winning group will have a public - private partnership contract with the government which will allow it use of some state infrastructure, such as sites to build towers on and a fiber optic network owned by the state electricity firm.

During the campaign, he was involved with a plan to help the Trump Organization build a tower in Moscow and in October 2016 brought Trump a letter of intent from a Russian developer.

What not to miss: As the home of the state government, Austin boasts the Texas Capitol, a towering 19th - century building that sits atop one of the city's highest points.

But Trump's casinos were just a portion of his overall Trump Organization, which also included the Trump Tower, a Trump building on Wall Street, a licensing deal for a building at Columbus Circle in New York, Mar - a-Lago, and other properties and licensing deals.

The elevator industry, however, is a complicated world, says Reich - Rohrwig, whose firm focuses almost entirely on upgrading existing lifts in office buildings and apartment tower — with modern displays, digital buttons, etc. — instead of supplying fixtures to the inexpensively - made new models installed in condo towers.

It will have the 151m tall «twisting» Beach and Howe Tower — a residential building complete with stunning views of water and mountains — as its centerpiece.

The rezoning of 78 blocks of east midtown Manhattan was approved by the New York City Council in August, with the goal of enabling the area's aging building stock to be replaced by more modern — and taller — office towers.

Plans have been lodged for the first major project under the City of Melville's newly adopted guidelines for the Canning Bridge area, with Stirling Capital submitting an application to build a two - tower, 232 - apartment development facing Ogilvie and Kishorn roads.

Pattison dipped his toes in real estate development this year, building condo towers atop one of his car dealerships.

He said the new corporate positions would be focused on e-commerce technology, cloud computing and machine learning, and employees will be working in the tower the company is building on the site of the city's old post office.

The New York Central accomplished this by selling its «air rights» — a new thing at the time — to real estate developers who built neoclassical apartment towers that still line the city's Street of Dreams, the most exclusive residential enclave in America.

The day after I visit the tower, I tour the «Design Center,» a warehouse - style building with high ceilings and, well, a lot of toys — a space that's as fun as the HQ is drab.

The images sprawl across unconventional screens, including a four - sided elevator tower the height of a three - storey building completely covered in glowing LEDs, the first of its kind anywhere.

Dubai developer Emaar Properties has unveiled details of a new record - setting tower that is expected to be the tallest building ever.

In recent years, China single - handedly accounted for about 15 per cent of global GDP and half of global growth — namely by sucking up the world's supplies of raw materials and using them to build everything from high - speed railways to forests of apartment towers to house its 1.3 billion people.

The Paris crisis talks involved police as well as officials from City Hall and the company that runs the tower which was built to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution in 1789 and is visited by an average of about 19,000 people per day.

ride that last year took over the building previously used by the park's Tower of Terror ride.

The clunkier new design — which has been criticized by the public — crams half of Lincoln's face, Chicago's Willis Tower, and the Illinois Capitol Building onto one plate.

The tower is still in the planning stage, but if it is build, it will be the sixth tallest structure in the UK, and exceed the height of the tallest building, the Shard in London, by at least ten metres.

Financial News reports that Vigilant Global, a telecoms company owned by high - frequency trading firm DRW Trading, has submitted plans to build a 320 - metre tall tower to allow what it calls «a new communications point between the UK and Europe» which will have a «completely unobstructed» line of sight both optically, and for radio waves.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago - based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed.

The building is rising at the northwest corner of the site where the twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Without the spire, One World Trade Center would actually be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which currently wears the crown of tallest building in the U.S. at 1,451 feet, not including its own antennas.

«But we are still looking for «tough» projects where we can shine,» says Morin, referring to jobs like their ongoing restoration of the ventilation towers in the centre block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.

When Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM (ibm), strolled across the atrium connecting her company's New York City office building and Trump Tower for a meeting with the President - elect's incoming administration and tech industry leaders last month, she had a report in hand.