Sentences with phrase «collapsing buildings so»

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«We have so many casualties proliferating of women and men collapsing from burnout, being distracted, depleted and unfulfilled,» says Huffington, who is herself one of those casualties: She collapsed from exhaustion and broke her cheekbone as a result of the fall — an accident that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building HuffPo.

[It] was a wooden building, and it was burning so fast that when I got my guitar, it started to collapse around me.

That after the attack the building held so long before collapsing.

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.

What complicates the matter further is that each spiritual belief is built upon a whole framework of other spiritual beliefs, so that if one of them begins to collapse, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

They built it with too steep an angle and it would have collapsed so they had to step it.

You want to avoid over-proofing the dough (letting it become too puffy so that it collapses during cooking), but allowing the dough sufficient time to build up lots of little air pockets will help give you the crumb texture you're looking for.

«If we have more rain and there is snow on the roof, we could have more building collapses, so we're also preparing for that,» Cuomo said.

The region faced at least two reported fatalities in elevation - related collapses, in addition to a flood of complaints about shoddy work, including one home, Oddo said, where an unscrupulous contractor took off without bothering to build a staircase so that owners could access their home after it was raised.

But there is persistent concern about the quality of some of the construction and this is because, local officials sometimes take bribes and allow construction companies to build things below standard and so we have a situation in the Sichuan province where the earthquake occurred, where schools were collapsing and collapsed at a much greater rate than other government buildings and the suspicion is of course that local officials have taken bribes and allowed the schools to be built this way.

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

As for how to keep the tunnel walls from collapsing: The spiders studied incorporate silk threads into the tunnel as they build it, so it remains standing even if all the surrounding sand is removed.

And the first thing that begins to happen is carbon dioxide builds up inside the body, and with it there is a rise in acidity; that acidity rise contributes to cellular membranes decaying and then collapsing and then digestive enzymes that were already always present in the cells begin to slosh around to the body and [it] begins a state of what's called self digestion, so the body begins to liquefy inside rather literally.

For astronomers these horizon - expanding views are so vital for progress that Webb has become the keystone for their field's long - term future: Take it away, and all plans built around it collapse.

Unfortunately, it also has an active seismic zone beneath the PF - 4 building, producing persistent worries among the staff and members of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, a congressionally - chartered oversight group, that if it experienced a rare, large earthquake, the roof could collapse and toss chunks of plutonium so closely together a chain reaction would ensue, spewing radioactive, cancer - causing plutonium particles throughout nearby residential communities.

«You can make a whole building out of this material, and if something falls on it, it's going to collapse slowly, so what's inside will be protected,» he says.

These guys, independently of one another, figured out that the so - called Triple AAA mortgage bonds were built on a foundation of ready to collapse at the first tremor of panic.

As the movie begins, their apartment building is in the middle of collapsing from the vibrations of a nearby construction site, and so they flee for new quarters, eventually taking up residence in a just - vacated flat owned by the manager of their theater company.

For me, Prisoners is part an engrossing family drama and part a chintzy, lurid thriller, jammed together in a way that lacks conciseness, focus, or ability to avoid collapsing under the sheer weight of the many cheap and cheesy plot contrivances that are far too out of their element to cap off a drama that builds up so well.

So why people are dying and buildings are collapsing?

Termite damage isn't covered by renters insurance generally, but if the damage to the structure from the termites is so severe that it causes the building or structure to collapse or partially collapse and damage to your property results, you could have coverage for your property.

If you have no RRSP room, Holman suggests waiting a year or two before collapsing the RESP so you can reduce your RRSP contributions and build up more room.

But it isn't just the destruction of buildings that is so enjoyable, but the gratifying way in which they topple and collapse.

Floors and ceilings can not, and there's no physics system, so buildings won't collapse.

It's also unlikely that you'd be able to sprint up a collapsed building in high heels, or punch a car with your bare hands so many times that it explodes.

People talk about the train level a lot, but to me the coolest thing was staging a shootout in a building that is collapsing, so you have to leap through the window into the NEXT building and continue the shootout!

More so than in Dark Moon even, perhaps half the building literally collapses between missions or one of the later mansions actually has a semi randomised layout where the rooms move every time you start a mission.

Building upon his UNFRAMED series of borrowed photographs, SO CLOSE collapses history and geography, responding directly to the global immigration crises.

What I found looking around is that much of that is badly made, so buildings aren't expected to last long in normal use, and collapses are astonishingly common.

Why did so many modern buildings collapse, people wonder.

If the foundation depth is too short, for instance, the building would collapse before it was even completed, so you can be reasonably sure that part was done properly if the building is standing at all.

Why it happens: Buildings can only handle so much weight before they collapse.

The Landlord and Federal Express entered into a build out agreement, but the Landlord was unable to finance the project and so the deal collapsed.

Due to the collapse of the financial and real estate markets in 2008, the Taxpayers were not able to obtain a loan to complete their purchase and so eventually sold the property for a loss in 2009 without ever building the planned vacation home.

«For years after the collapse in housing, home builders have kept very lean inventories of new homes so any marginal pickup in sales activity leads to a notable pickup in building,» said Ellen Zentner, a senior economist at Nomura Securities International in New York.