Sentences with phrase «by walls around»

Tulum and Ixpaatun were built on bluffs and defended against land assault by walls around their core zones.

Though it's on a corner lot, the villa is kept private by a wall around its outdoor living areas, which include a pool, hot tub and a sunny deck with plenty of seating.

Not exact matches

All around it, with space to breathe, hang T - shirts, pullovers, underwear, scarves and men's pants in varying shades of white, grey and navy, leavened only by the colourful pop art commissioned from local artists on the walls.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that at least 73 private companies around the globe are valued by venture capitalists at $ 1 billion or more, with 48 of them reaching 10 digits in 2014.

Which has led to the installation of ridiculous props in the workplace to make it seem like the work environment is something that it's not: an arcade machine in the corner, a bar and barista by the far wall, big chalkboards or dry erase boards around the office for Millennial employees to write inspirational quotes on.

And Buffett was drawn into the controversy around the company this year, after Charlie Munger compared Valeant to ITT, one of the worst conglomerates every assembled by Wall Street.

As the founder of Childs Capital LLC, a Wall Street firm that seeks to alleviate poverty in developing nations by investing in private enterprise, her business trips take her around the world, from Africa to Latin America.

The crisis — spurred largely by Syria's civil war — has caused numerous political spats, leading to the construction of walls around certain countries and the closing of borders between others.

Shares on Wall Street and around the world were lifted by news that Osama bin Laden had been killed but later erased some of their gains as the euphoria evaporated.

A web seminar hosted by DoubleLine Capital's Jeff Gundlach, titled «Mirror, Mirror on the Wall,» was a whirlwind trip around the globe to where the star fixed - income manager sees problem and potential.

The wall - street testosterone pumped jockey hangs around with glassy nerds, looked upon by flashy artists with the swindlers all around.

In fact, over a decade ago, I was told by my peers of the exact same scam, described by neuro - linguistic programming expert Derren Brown of a fool - proof system that could predict the winner of every horse race around the world, used by Wall Street financial consultants on unsuspecting prospects to successfully gather millions of dollars of AUM.

The mountainous landscapes around Xi'an, including the renowned Huashan, is truly world - class, and the city itself, encased by a gorgeous ancient wall, is a spectacle in its own right.

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

They were purchased by NewsCorp who also owns 20th Century Fox Films, Fox Television, HaperCollins Books, the Wall Street Journal, MySpace.com and many other media properties around the world.

The Protestant bishop of Karachi, for example, has been stopped twice in the past year by Christians who object to his plan to develop commercial space around the outer wall of St. Andrews, the second - largest Protestant church property in Karachi.

A long tube, for example, turns out to be one - sided, since by going around the open ends, the points on the interior and the exterior can be connected without passing through the wall.

This move attempted to protect Catholicism from modern thought by building a protective wall of authority around it.

«We put this stadium up against a wall and projected a video map around it approximately 12 by 35 feet, so the whole wall was consumed with this Cleveland Browns stadium, along with the soundtrack, which is crowd noise,» Schoeffler explains.

I feel like maybe I shouldn't break the third wall by admitting the absolute shitshow that is Dude Diet recipe testing, but I try to keep things real around here, and sweet.

Well, after a few moments of gut aching laughing inside the dressing room with one leg stuck in a pair of jeans pulled up to my knee - ish area and me hopping around on the other leg while simultaneously holding onto the wall trying to pull / peel the jeans off... I was beginning to sweat, my sanity was being questioned by myself and the saleswoman, and I was striking up quite the hunger.

According to the police report obtained by Yahoo! Sports, Chapman's girlfriend alleged that after an argument over an item found on Chapman's phone, he pushed her against a wall and put his hands around her neck.

Edoardo Mortara damaged his car and spectacularly drifted his way around the lap, whilst Felix Rosenqvist clipped the wall but still took pole by almost seven - tenths of a second.

Create a safety zone around the crib by positioning it away from windows, heaters, lamps, wall decorations (including stick - on decals that could fall off the wall and into the crib), cords, and furniture your baby could climb on.

Notice to current Pump In Style Advanced Users: To avoid damaging transformer (A / C adapter) and cord, do NOT wrap cord around transformer when storing it and do not unplug cord from wall by pulling on cord.

If you have sex around this time and the egg is fertilized by sperm, it will travel to the uterus and attach itself to the cushiony wall.

Because this financial crisis wasn't just the result of decisions made in the executive suites on Wall Street; it was also the result of decisions made around kitchen tables across America, by folks taking on mortgages and credit cards and auto loans.

Much more to the point: if Micah was to say something to Howard Dean by posting on his Facebook wall, that interaction would be public — it would stick around (assuming it's not deleted), and all of Micah's social network could see that he said it, too.

Another CEDECOM irony is the use of GHC 220,000 by the Commission to construct a fence wall around the Agona Swedru cemetery.

The Park Place substation on Water Street in Long Beach, which Cuomo visited Friday, serves about 9,300 homes and businesses and, in anticipation of Sandy, was protected by a temporary wall of sandbags around key equipment.

As a union of professionals dedicated to children, the UFT is deeply disappointed in Governor Cuomo and the Legislature for their agreement to penalize future public workers around the state for the mistakes made by Wall Street.

An off - the - wall new study by Brown University researchers shows that terahertz frequency data links can bounce around a room without dropping too much data.

They are focused on applications for autonomous vehicles, some of which already have similar laser - based systems for detecting objects around the car, but other uses could include seeing through foliage from aerial vehicles or giving rescue teams the ability to find people blocked from view by walls and rubble.

People tended not to notice this much, especially if I kept my hand low on the wall, and it was much better than looking drunk by weaving around in hallways and classrooms.

Phronima juveniles, bottom, are able to move around on the wall of the barrel, but they need to stay grouped, with heads facing outward, as if held together by a mutual force of attraction.

Normally, when you put a mouse into an open field, it walks along the edge of the field, where the walls are — the mouse is in an enclosed chamber with walls around it — because it's afraid of being attacked by an intruder, and it makes occasional dashes into the center to make sure it's not missing some food or an interesting sexual partner.

It is even considering creating an «ice wall» around the complex by freezing water in soil.

The technique, known as external stenting (ES), expands and stabilizes the airway by suspending its wall to a rigid prosthesis placed around the bronchus or trachea.

If her model is right, a survey would detect concentric rings of Great Walls in every direction around Earth, an illusion produced by innumerable distant small clusters appearing to coalesce on redshift maps.

«When you move around, you do so by monitoring a lot of information, you look at landmarks and you try not to bump into walls,» Iaria says.

Nature gets around this problem by permeating tissue with a network of tiny, thin - walled blood vessels that nourish the tissue and remove waste, so Kolesky and Lewis set out to mimic this key function.

Most of the common snake species around Fogg Dam are actually MORE abundant now than they were in the years before cane toads arrived, based on a huge amount of information gathered by Dr Greg Brown in his nightly surveys (walking across the Fogg dam wall and recording snake numbers just about every night, for 5 years before and after toads arrived!).

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

So here it is: If you are an endurance athlete on an old - fashioned high - carb diet, sometimes still recommended by fitness magazines that endorse carbo - loading, you can expect to hit the wall at around the 20 mile mark of a 26 - mile marathon.

Instead you may be assisted by your training partner or use the things around you to hold the stretch (wall, post, floor etc.).

If you visit this country some day you need to visit the amazing fortress walls, walk around the cutest streetsm visit the cathedral and I always recomend the train tour by the city.

Colorful and fun, take a tour around this modern nursery designed by Jessica at Oh I Design for a client, complete with geometric accent wall and orbit chandelier.

I kept driving by this wall and finally got around to taking pictures in front of it.

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This time around I knew I wanted to make a bold statement so I went with a deep navy for the walls (Hale Navy by Benjamin Moore).