Sentences with phrase «collapsed building»

Culled from an unspecified collection, the two Morris Louis paintings, Beth Samach (1958) and Gamma (1960), play multiple roles: They are asked to represent the ideals and aspirations of a historical moment of great confidence and aspiration, and to model the falling motion of collapsing buildings in their blooming color drags.

A local building official in Utah commented about how disturbed she was to see the twisted strands of rebar (concrete reinforcing steel) in photos of collapsed buildings in this quake and how concerned that made her for «un» reinforced structures.

So lots of people were inside the night of April 5, and many were crushed by collapsing buildings.

Created from wood recovered from collapsed buildings in Mexico City and clay found throughout the city, the work was sold to a private collector for $ 15,000.

They search through collapsed buildings for the living and dead.

Rescuers were labouring to find survivors trapped under collapsed buildings.

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

The rest of the time you'll be quite happy with your trusty remote - mines, frantically flipping them onto buildings, causing chain reactions of destruction — collapsing buildings into buildings into giant gas canisters, massive explosions ripping through vehicles and enemies, sending them hurtling through the air.

Pedro Meyer, [Rescue workers at collapsed building, Mexico City], 1985, gelatin silver print.

None of this summer's major blockbusters is a disaster film in the classical sense, but The Mummy, Wonder Woman, War for the Planet of the Apes, and Transformers: The Last Knight all feature collapsing buildings and existential stakes.

Lowest bidder collapses the building and laughs all the way to the bank.

Flood sediment settled over collapsed buildings and crushed bodies some 15 miles downstream at the archaeological site of Lajia.

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

Mages blocking entry ways, bridges being out, and collapsed buildings present navigational hazards.

The destruction is indeed a spectacle, but Peyton has a solid comprehension of the physics of collapsing buildings so the mayhem looks more grounded in reality than some other disaster genre spectacles that can barely hide its CGI blueprints.

Echoes mode kept me addicted for a bit, to the point where I spent 3 hours to get the high score on the map collapsed building 2.

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.

But, my anxiety about cancerous moles and collapsing buildings disappeared.

There I saw horrible loss of life and destruction due to collapsed buildings in the aftermath of a massive earthquake.

Inspecting the aftermath of earthquakes throughout the developing world, I've seen a lot of collapsed buildings that were made of unreinforced masonry.

This ability is crucial to finding victims trapped under collapsed buildings and avalanches.

Elsewhere, rusted steel rods sprout from collapsing buildings of pre-stressed concrete.

Reports in the London press indicated that 80 firefighters were at the scene, including specialists in dealing with collapsed buildings.

His Loblaw grocery chain faced disgrace after Joe Fresh items were found in the rubble of Rana Plaza, a collapsed building in Bangladesh that housed garment manufacturers.

The powerful storm ripped roofs off houses, collapsed buildings and flooded hundreds of miles of coastline after cutting a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.

The powerful storm ripped roofs off houses, collapsed buildings and flooded hundreds of thousands of coastline after cutting a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.

Do you suppose that children who died a lingering death in a flithy camp tent in Haiti because a collapsing building crushed their chest are where they are today because of «the blessings god gave them?»

It is a piece of the collapsed buildings.

We send most poor students of color to school in collapsing buildings.

A woman has been found alive after six days in a collapsed building and rescuers are working to free her, a Kenyan government official said Thursday.

Notable among the cases is the case against the Board of Trustees of the Synagogue Church Of All Nation, SCOAN, and the engineers involved in the construction of the collapsed building.

The owner of a collapsed building in downtown Syracuse says he will reimburse the city for the cost of demolition, and he plans to erect a new building at the site.

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.

The Governor who addressed Government House Correspondents at the Lagos House, Ikeja, shortly after inspecting the site of the collapsed building which was under construction by the Lekki Gardens, said the incident which claimed 34 lives and left several others injured was «one building collapse too many».

Speaking to journalists at the site of the collapsed building, the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Wasiu Anifowose, said Governor Ambode and his team were at the site to personally examine the level of damage and the determine how best to prevent a reoccurrence going forward.

According to the analysis, for instance, collapsing buildings would cause most of the deaths in a Delhi, India, earthquake; however, in San Salvador, landslides would cause far more casualties.

They are either stranded by collapsed buildings, bridges, and roadways, injured or dead themselves, or have decided to stick close to home to make sure their own families are OK before going to work.

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.

The most dramatic instances of damage from the airburst were flying glass and one collapsed building: most of the people who sought medical attention in the aftermath suffered from cuts and bruises.

Earthquakes simultaneously emit two kinds of energy waves from their epicenters — S - waves, which collapse buildings and rip up the ground, and P - waves, which pack little energy but travel much faster.

When a person is trapped in a collapsed building, every second counts.

FIT also demonstrates an app for Android smartphones that lets victims buried alive under a collapsed building contact rescue teams even though mobile phone networks are down.

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

A superb opening sequence shows Bond stalking a target through Day of the Dead crowds in Mexico City, fleeing a collapsing building, then wrestling for his life in a swooping helicopter.

A.A. Dowd, The A.V. Club Glancing down into the rubble of a collapsed building, Nelly Lenz catches her own reflection in a shard of broken glass and is shocked to discover that she doesn't recognize the stranger staring back at her.