The phrase
"crack in the wall" is an idiomatic expression that means a small opening or opportunity.
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The reception desk will inevitably try to move you to another room, however, the bugs can travel between rooms
through cracks in the walls.
The villagers started to leave their homes and move to safer grounds after they saw
cracks in the walls of their houses, reminding them of a recent landslide that buried 28 people alive in Banaran, a neighboring village, last Saturday.
The Fort Worth Star Telegram reports that Trinity Meadows Intermediate School in Fort Worth, which opened in 2006, is beset by deteriorating conditions such
as cracks in walls and concrete, and doors that stick.
It takes years to be «discovered,» and by that point you will have numerous drafts hidden beneath your bed, stuffed in a back cupboard, shoved
between cracks in the wall.
They added they live with a constant background noise of construction in their buildings,
creating cracks in walls and ceilings and even flooding their apartments with fumes and dust.
If your home is exhibiting symptoms of foundation problems
like cracks in walls, sticking and swinging doors, or uneven floors it may need foundation repair.
Many of the buildings within a kilometer (mile) of the temple were damaged
with cracks in the walls or broken window panes from the impact of the explosion, Das said.
The gym that Texas Christian University used until 1954 was known as The Barn, and though the wind whistled through the
sizable cracks in its walls college officials could see no point in putting up a new building for a minor sport.
«I am personally not surprised because there are
massive cracks in the walls of the cell so it appears quite easy for anyone who is intended to break it and escape,» Adeti reported.
For example, if your home is subject to an earthquake and
sustains cracks in the walls, ceiling, foundation or other damages, those would be covered under the dwelling portion of the coverage.
A barn with an enclosed room and / or outer doors that can be kept securely closed is ideal, because the cats can move around freely inside and peek outside through windows or
cracks in the walls during the acclimation period.
Somewhere along the line, you gain the ability to shift into walls like a painting, and this wall shifting allows you to
enter cracks in walls of Link's Hyrule to enter a new kingdom, Lorule.
Entering once the show had been hung, but before the evening vernissage, they highlighted the
hairline cracks in the wall or areas of filled plaster, by daubing «Facebook blue» across the offending areas.
In his Wall of Light canvases, Scully moves away from the regularity of his earlier stripes, adopting looser, softer segments of color; the painterly rectangles do not quite touch one another, and allow for glimpses of the pigment underneath, reminiscent of
delicate cracks in a wall.
Earthquake insurance, which typically has a very high deductible, is designed to protect you if you suffer major losses because of a quake, but it may not be helpful if an earthquake causes only minor damages to your property, such as broken plates or
small cracks in a wall.
Make sure you walk around the outside of the house, looking out for anything that could lead to a problem later down the line — such as signs of damp, loose roof tiles, broken guttering,
cracks in the walls etc..
Joel Beardshaw, senior game designer at ustwo games, also describes how Nintendo uses odd little scenic details he calls «Scooby - Doo elements», such
as cracks in the wall or strange doors, which invite experimentation.
In a brief telephone interview, Brodsky called the decision a «
crack in the wall of secrecy that the NRC uses to hide its health and safety decisions.»
Once the precedent is set in law, once
the crack in the wall is started, what you do now, others will be able to do in the future.
No cracks in the walls, no smashed glass, nothing fallen off of shelves.
These two victories only serve to paper over
the cracks in the wall as it is apparent that the wall is in a structure without a roof and with unsafe foundations.
Anything from a picture to
a crack in the wall or ceiling can work, so long as it helps you relax and distracts you from the pain.»
Once
the cracks in that wall appear, people start to feel that they're going to become the scapegoat and then they'll turn on you.
In line with the question, you will see that the way things have gone, it may really affect the interest of the party in a negative way, Yoruba's adage says «if there is
no cracks in the wall, a reptile can not creep in».
For psychologists, this kind of mental shortcoming is like
a crack in a wall.
Instead of staying right next to one another like they're supposed to, cells from the left and right ventricle might mix at some point early on, possibly causing
a crack in the wall between the two chambers of the heart.
Others can hide coins in the crevasses of their back muscles but appear to be able to walk through
a crack in the wall due to a lack of width in their lats.
Every crack in the wall of Travis Bickle's sad little apartment is now razor - sharp: every Coke can, every Quarter Pounder wrapper and piece of junk - food detritus.
In one scene, Northam (playing a movie star) plays the piano to the disgust of the rich and to the delight of the servants, who listen in corridors, through
cracks in the wall and perched on staircase landings.
It could also offer key features for the gamepad, for instance: by drawing on the gamepad the player can «dream up» certain objects like bob - ombs to open
a crack in a wall leading to a star.
Applying a flexible waterproof coating bridges gaps and
cracks in walls and allows the substrate to breathe.
In the dry season, the wind will blow dust through
the cracks in the walls; in the rainy season, the playground will become a pond, and the classroom floors mud baths.
With around 1,500 to be made worldwide it could be difficult to get your hands on an XXV, but bar the added design touches the car is very much the same as the standard Discovery — a car that has been on sale for a long time now, but various updates have helped paper over
the cracks in its walls.
Gerry was in the bedroom inspecting the glass telltale affixed to
a crack in the wall.
This crack in the wall of resistance isn't really a crack.
An inspector might tell you a home's old furnace has plenty of years left or
a crack in the wall is only cosmetic.
Cracks in walls, especially in older lathe & plaster walls, can indicate a shifting or settling foundation
If your home was badly damaged — there is roof damage,
cracks in the walls, or the foundation appears to have shifted — do not enter your home.