Sentences with phrase «buildings collapsed like»

Speaking of destruction, it ain't really that satisfying, buildings collapsed like cardbox every time.

Not exact matches

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 Red Sox, meanwhile — in the house of their tormentor, Babe Ruth — built a lead like a Jenga tower and then awaited its inevitable collapse.

When I think of these, the ones that come to mind are the Bugaboo and Orbit or cutting edge ones like the 4moms Origami, which has the built - in robotic technology and allows the stroller to collapse and expand with the twist of a button (see video here).

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.

And they will not reverse the damage done by two years of deep cuts to long - term projects like house building and the school building programme which have seen a collapse in the construction sector.»

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.»

The 9/11 truthers focus on minutiae like the melting point of steel in the World Trade Center buildings that caused their collapse because they think the government lies and conducts «false flag» operations to create a New World Order.

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.

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.

They may snap trees like twigs, collapse office buildings and sweep away cars.

Besides being the ultimate move for building a huge back and killer legs, the zercher squat will work your core harder than any squat or deadlift variation there is — it's effin» brutal and your core muscles will work like crazy to prevent you from collapsing forward!

Even the in - game physics, like building explosions and collapses, are comparable to first person shooters.

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

Add in destructible environments which include collapsing buildings and it's like the climax of the Man of Steel movie on steroids.

The first major disaster sequence (which starts, I kid you not, with a character saying, «It feels like something's coming between us,» right before an abyss in the ground separates them) has the dysfunctional family dodging cars, falling interstates, and collapsing buildings, and that's before they get in a plane.

Like most great «translit» fiction — David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (2014), Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (2011), and Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker (2012)-- Pears» genre - bending, time - collapsing tour - de-force dazzles us with world building, but, beyond that, it reminds us that the people in those worlds survive by their stories and by the way those stories reverberate backward and forward, achieving, if only now and again, the perfect harmony we all crave.

In 2003 the Old Man of the Mountain collapsed and sometimes when debt builds up, finances are nowhere to be found and you don't know where to turn, you might feel like the Old Man of the Mountain of New Hampshire, and want to collapse.

Explosions looked nice, but the lack of destructible environments is a bit underwhelming as games like Battlefield and Red Faction have shown how much fun collapsing a building from its weak points can be.

Building are collapsing, mountain are sinking into the ground, constructions are under attack... Humans are panicking and can only hope for one thing, being rescued by your rocket, which really seems like their last hope!

Changes to a particular arena could be somewhat small (like a player knocking down a stack of pipes or blowing up a car) or positively massive (floods, collapsing buildings, earthquakes).

Maybe like buildings that collapse when the pigs structures are destroyed by firing the birds into them?

Rey Akdogan does it with metal tiling as incomplete as that of Carl Andre, Olof Inger with trash bags converted into the painting of light and space, Gabriel Kuri with black slabs crushing beer or soda cans like a Richard Serra that collapsed during an opening, Charlotte Posenenske with heat ducts as building blocks, Cameron Rowland with shelving brackets as line drawing, and Jean - Luc Moulène with rebar as an open cage.

Often the main challenges are things like, what would the inside of that building look like, how would it collapse.

Some of the extended bits that Fadem pulled off in that time: sitting down on a rubber stool, kicking a hole through a stage that would eventually collapse in full, slamming a weird sort of metal gate / screen - door combination affixed to the building's wall, jumping into the East River and then reappearing inside of a barrel of vaseline that was treated to looked like toxic sludge, hurling himself into a pile of cardboard boxes and then sounding the world's most pathetic airhorn, addressing the performance's one heckler with a drawn - out gesture involving his middle finger, drinking a number of glasses of water in rapid succession before moving to a sort of thick, clear liquid that he repeatedly spit up and attempted to drink again (I heard an audience member worry that this would trigger a series of chain - reaction vomiting in the audience.

I think Elizabth Tjader and a few others above raise some good points, mainly that in a huge earthquake like this 7.9 magnitude tremblor in a mountainous region, even with the best solid construction in the world, some buildings are going to crack or tip over or collapse.

They are: fire, lightning, smoke, windstorm (like tornadoes), hail, vandalism, theft, falling objects (like trees), weight of snow or ice, building collapse, water damage (from burst pipes or leaking appliances) and structural damage from electrical surges, though not from your personal appliances like televisions or computers.

It hits like an earthquake and they scramble to find solid ground; often stepping into a collapsing building instead of to safety.