Sentences with phrase «crack in the wall of»

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.»
«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.
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.
Why, then, does their abstraction cherish the cracks in a wall of light?
«I allow my spirit to slip through the cracks in the wall of racism,» Saar writes in the exhibition catalog.

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Instead of investing in highways, ports, high - speed rail projects, and modern utilities, the U.S. has for decades continued putting new coats of paint on the same cracked wall.
Thanks to bold self - revelations from some top names in the industry, greater media coverage (such as this award - winning story from Inc. magazine by Jessica Bruder) and, sadly, the tragic loss of several members of the startup community to suicide, the curtain that once completely walled off founders» mental health struggles is starting to crack open.
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.
It is apparent in an art which is capable of turning even Campbell soup - cans into objects of artistic representation (Warhol), or in a music which discovers aesthetic value in common noises and in listening to silence (Cage), or in a photography which captures the beauty of doorknobs and cracked walls, driftwood and wrinkled faces.
In 1970, just before the walls of mainline Protestant church education began to show their cracks, I wrote a short tract, Values for Tomorrow's Children (Pilgrim, 1970), which boldly suggested that a radical alternative for church education was needed for the future.
In the waning years of the Biblical Theology Movement, the walls with the most stress - cracks were those involving historical inquiry.
They're so powerful they're able to thrive despite the most adverse conditions, growing out of stone walls, between sidewalk cracks and in near freezing or low moisture conditions.
No cracks in the walls, no smashed glass, nothing fallen off of shelves.
Whether a bold attempt at improving the level of Scottish football or a brazen crack at regaining a place in Europe while making a quick buck, any plans for a British Cup are sure to be shot down at Hadrian's Wall by the Football League, and probably rightly so.
Healthy Schools Network recommends simple activities such as: • Adopting Guiding Principles of School Environmental Quality as a policy for your School; • Distributing information related to Green Cleaning or Indoor Air Quality (IAQ); • Writing a letter or visiting your Principal or Facility Director to ask about cleaning products or pest control products; • Walking around your school: looking for water stains, cracks in outside walls, broken windows or steps, and overflowing dumpsters that are health & safety problems that need attention.
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Though not yet able to crack double digits in any statewide polling, the 61 - year - old Hawkins — one of the party's most prolific vote - getters — believes he has «a fighting chance» this fall against Wall Street - funded incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his hapless Republican rival, as evidenced by the surprisingly strong showing of underfunded challenger Zephyr Teachout in the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary.
DiNapoli said he has ordered an internal review of hiring practices and oversight after the arrest of Kang, who was accused of taking bribes that ranged from cash to crack cocaine to prostitutes in exchange for steering $ 2 billion in investments to Wall Street broker - dealers.
«While you've suggested in recent interviews that you would seek to relax the focus of the Attorney General's office when it comes to cracking down on these crimes, vowing not to «disturb the garden,» I intend to make protecting homeowners and consumers from bad actors on Wall Street a key concern, as it has been for Andrew Cuomo,» Schneiderman wrote in a letter to Donovan, released to the media.
«While you've suggested in recent interviews that you would seek to relax the focus of the attorney general's office when it comes to cracking down on these crimes, vowing not to «disturb the garden,» I intend to make protecting homeowners and consumers from bad actors on Wall Street a key concern, as it has been for Andrew Cuomo.,» Schneiderman wrote in a letter to Donovan.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli on Thursday said he has ordered an internal review of hiring practices and oversight in the wake of the arrestof a former state pension fund manager accused of taking bribes that ranged from cash to crack cocaine to prostitutes in exchange for steering $ 2 billion in investments to Wall Street broker - dealers.
The south wall of Oswego City Hall has several cracks in it that present a safety hazard for employees, including Mayor Billy Barlow who sits behind those windows during common council meetings.
The discovery of waterlogged minerals and a growing ice wall suggests that the dwarf planet could harbor underground liquid water or slushy brine, which has escaped through cracks and craters in the recent past and may still be seeping out today.
For psychologists, this kind of mental shortcoming is like a crack in a wall.
And Jews have been faxing God for some time, in the form of prayers that are received in Jerusalem and then slipped into the cracks of the Wailing Wall.
While many cranes and cement mixers are at work in L'Aquila, much of the town's historic centre is unoccupied and frozen in the state it was shortly after the earthquake, with simple beams shoring up windows, doorways and cracked walls and vegetation beginning to encroach.
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.
Whereas, in order to make use of single - celled algae, the manufacturer may need to harshly crack the cell walls of these algae to make nutrients inside the cells available.
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.
The important things to look for when searching for these two algae's are whether the cell walls are cracked in the case of chlorella and what is the source of the seaweed?
It's for this reason you want to look for «cracked cell wall» or «broken cell wall» chlorella on the ingredient list of brands that use it in their blend.
Because it keeps all its valuable nutrients locked up inside a hard - to - crack cell wall, our chlorella is «cell wall cracked» to maximize digestion and absorption using an ultrasonic method that maintains the integrity of the nutrients, followed by spray - drying process that flashes it into a powder in 2 seconds.
His intoxicating smell gave me seismic pleasures shook me, sent walls cracking, falling, chunks of myself, my rigid vigilant cage, tumbling away in sweet surrender.
He keeps a chart in his room that compares certain tics and behavior that Walter does that he catches himself doing (cracking his neck and, later, spending a large chunk of the day in bed), and he hides a portion of the wall behind a poster — a section of his room where he bangs his head against the wall when something about his life frustrates him enough that he needs to take it out somehow.
Perhaps salvation can be found on a cracked stucco wall in the middle of Southern California, perhaps not.
As Barbara, a physician exiled to an East German provincial town as punishment for having applied for an exit visa from the GDR (the film is set in 1980, almost a decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall), Hoss exudes such fierce wariness and disdain for her colleagues, whom she realistically suspects may be spying on her for the Stasi, that the film's suspense lies less in whether she'll be able to smuggle herself out of this country she detests than whether she will exhibit any humanity, any crack in her icy demeanor.
New York City noise is one example — he lives down here now, in Tribeca, he says, after fleeing an apartment in Chelsea several years ago, partly because of actual construction noise from a building site next door: «Our walls cracked, our doors wouldn't shut.»
The cracks in the bathroom wall of Elisa's apartment highlight the decline of neon - lit retro decor, and consequently old - fashioned romances (even with a fish), in favour of cold, grey industrialised rooms at the facility.
If the red - suited, foul - mouth anti-hero were to suddenly pop up in the middle of Logan and start cracking jokes and breaking the fourth wall, it would totally disrupt the serious and solemn tone that the movie is very clearly going for.
Reynolds is in true motormouth form, breaking fourth walls and cracking skulls as the nearly three - minute trailer cues up Air Supply and references «Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants» (the latter a nod, naturally, to the breakthrough film of Reynolds's real - life wife, Blake Lively).
This son of rural schoolteachers created a crack in the concrete wall of finance capitalism where some roses were able to push through.
Of that list, only the Jeep Cherokee cracks the top 20 vehicles sold in 2015, according to the Wall Street Journal.
An inspector might tell you a home's old furnace has plenty of years left or a crack in the wall is only cosmetic.
To what extent do you view your investing life as an extension of your personal life?By that I mean to what extent do the personal morals and ethical values of Tim the man govern the investing decisions of Tim the dividend growth investor?If you ask your typical dividend growth investor if they would be willing to invest in a lucrative but immoral venture, say selling child pornography or crack cocaine, the answer would probably be «absolutely not» regardless of the yield, valuation or growth prospects of the underlying venture.And yet, ask that same investor what their thoughts are about Phillip Morris and they would probably describe what a wonderful investment it is and go on about why you should own it.Do your personal morals ever come into play when buying companies, or do you compartmentalize your conscience, wall it off from the part of your brain that thinks about investments, and make your investing decisions based on the financial prospects of the company?The reason why I'm asking is that I keep identifying stocks of companies that I love from an investing perspective but despise on a human level.I can not in good conscience own any piece of Phillip Morris knowing the impact that smoking related illness has on the families of smokers.You might say that the smoker made his choice to smoke so you don't mind taking his money, but his children never made that choice and they are the ones who will suffer when he dies 20 years too soon.
Home inspectors can let you know if home wiring is out of date, if the roof desperately needs replacing, if the home foundation is cracking or if there are carpenter ants in the walls.
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.
Cracks in the corners or where walls meet can be an obvious sign of structural problems which may be linked to the foundation.
The facility is tiny and cramped, with no ventilation, poor acoustics, crumbling walls, cracked floors, unsafe heating and electrical systems, a failing septic system, lack of natural light and outdoor animal holding / housing areas that flood in the winter and are impossible to disinfect.
There was a small cracked depression in the rock wall with a shallow, foot - wide stream coming out of the back behind some large rocks.
[a][11] Most of this is lost in cracks in the basalt, only to emerge later in springs and seeps in the walls of the Snake River Canyon.
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