Sentences with phrase «embankment of»

«Tracings up to the LA River placed in the Clark Telescope Dome, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ» presents the first works that are part of Secular Response 3, in which the concentric circular markings from the footprint of the round building that houses the Clark telescope are laid out with the messy «micro-histories» found in the markings on the concrete embankment of the LA River.

In Ingrid Calame's new drawings she has extended her activity of tracing stains from city streets and begun incorporating tracings of graffiti and paint spills found on the concrete embankment of the Los Angeles River.

Sprouting up from the embankment of the chasm is a towering spire, known simple as Jail.

A simple, historic 3 - star hotel on the embankment of the Fontanka River, a short walk from Nevsky Prospekt.

In the new part of Havana on the embankment of El Vedado, along the Malecon waterfront and the streets of La Rampa there are numerous villas and hotels for all tastes with excellent service.

Leaving her Jeep at the side of the road, she strides past cow patties and fast - food wrappers and scrambles down an eroded embankment of the Cache la Poudre River.

It originated centuries ago with the fishermen who cooked it in big metal pots over campfires on the embankments of Hungary's great rivers, including the Danube.

Ingrid Calame, a Los Angeles — based artist, is known for her brightly colored, abstract paintings and drawings featuring complex configurations of traced stains and graffiti from the embankments of the Los Angeles River and the streets and sidewalks of New York, Las Vegas, and Seoul, Korea.

The upper floors, first and second, are dedicated to the preparatory drawings, cut - outs, sculptures, tapestries and collages made for what promises to be one of the most important artistic events of 2016: «Triumphs and Laments», a project inspired by the history of Rome, which will be launched on April 21st on the embankments of the Tiber River walls that stretches between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini.

They are playtoys, toy trains to run on circular tracks, puffing around the Knob of CO2 Control, and the embankments of steep water feedback.

Not exact matches

One owner loved the «insulated zip pocket» on the exterior of the bag and said that it «clips onto the stroller perfectly,» while another customer reported that their Columbia Summit Rush Backpack «survived falling off the car at 45 mph, tumbling down an embankment, and landing next to a tree and [still] kept the contents inside the bag.»

Watchtower «A girl of about 10, she's behind the embankment, scared to death» Captain R (after killing the girl) «Anything moving in the zone, even a three - year - old, needs to be killed» http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/24/israel

Yancey wrestled with the steering wheel, but his SUV tumbled over an embankment, shattering glass, plastic and metal - and much of Yancey's thin body.

As mentioned in a previous post, parsnips grow wild from self seeded stock in my garden, they even grow through the weed mat on the embankment behind my herbs, consequently many of them are an odd shape.

The trail of debris continued down a steep six - foot embankment and into a drainage basin: Buffalo Wild Wings wet wipes, numbing dental cream, scratched - up country music CDs floating in an oil slick, and an ID card issued by the NFL Players Association.

An eclectic group of us wandered past the birch trees and down the concrete slope of the embankment, with hunks of bread in our hands.

Lord Tebbit probably should have anticipated a bit of Noble banter when he rose to complain about cycle lanes on Victoria Embankment.

A helicopter crash in Vauxhall has led to the closure of Vauxhall bridge, paralysing Embankment and suspending all the trains into Waterloo.

That County Executive Mike Hein was on the scene almost before the last hunk of embankment had muddied the already polluted Wallkill River west of the village indicates the investment he has in this project.

Metra's selection was one of several flood remediation approvals on August 6, including a $ 100,000 capital project for Muddy Creek and $ 50,000 for embankment and stream improvements at Sparkill Creek, both of which are in Orangetown.

After the shooting, the couple's car crossed a pair of double yellow lines and crashed into a rock embankment near the Route 6/293 split.

This week, the Erie County Department of Parks, Forestry and Recreation and the Department of Public Works began work on the dam and the creek / lake embankment.

Stabilization of the embankments is being accomplished largely through a process called dry soil mixing.

The project extends for approximately 2,600 linear feet, north from the Hopkins / Smith intersection and consists of embankment stabilization and reconstruction, installation of a new closed drainage system, roadway reconstruction / rehabilitation, guiderail installation and site restoration.

«I have secured appointment for about 200 youths and have brought the ongoing N800 million Federal Government embankment project on River Yedzaram that had posed a danger to the lives and properties of Mubi town residents.»

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

While there are management solutions to stabilizing the landscape, those solutions are not without challenges, Goodbred said, but the study notes that systematically breaching embankment sections to allow for delivery of sediment to the coastal sea might at least partially reduce problems.

When Cyclone Aila struck in 2009, flooding breached more than 1,000 miles of river embankments and displaced about 100,000 people in the region.

One of two or more words with the same sound and often the same spelling but different meanings, such as to, two, and too or bank (embankment) and bank (financial institution).

With conservative assumptions about sea level rise and the subsidence of the area, two diversion structures — large concrete sluices placed in the river embankment — would create about 700 square kilometers of land over 30 years, said Gary Parker of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

«Measuring small variations in the magnetic field of the soil enables you to identify old pits or embankments without destroying them.

Archaeologists have discovered traces of a circular Viking fortress and embankments in a field in the diocese of Vallø, west of Køge.

Since the start of research under the plan, Bangladeshi engineers and officials have demanded an extensive network of large embankments to protect the country's cities and farms from future floods.

Quick on the heels of Saddam Hussein's removal from power, inhabitants began pulling down embankments and reflooding the land.

Given the increased centrifugal force created by the high speeds around curves, it is also advisable to increase the height of embankments around curves and widen the track gauge to prevent derailments.

The plastic screen is 5 - metres high and angled to produce the same effect on the movement of air as a solid embankment.

An embankment near the base of a slope will prevent the cold air sinking to the valley bottom, leaving it hanging around the lower slopes of the vineyards.

Not all of the destroyed embankments have been repaired or replaced, but hundreds of homesteads and businesses are being moved to higher land both inside and outside the polder.

They found that the embankments that protect the land from the river and sea had also robbed it of fresh supplies of sediment: during the five decades of its existence, the polder had sunk by a full meter relative to the land outside the embankments because it was not being replenished.

And thousands more took shelter on what remained of the embankments, where lack of sanitation and privacy would soon spur disease and crime.

But the pair say the embankments must take much of the blame.

In the past 50 years, Bangladesh has built 4000 kilometres of embankments along the coast.

Combined with crushed stone, this type of mixture has already been used to good effect in asphalt mixtures and roadside embankments, but its use in the rail sector is relatively unexplored.

I'm wearing three coats of Color Club's Warhol and one coat of Nails Inc.'s Chelsea Embankment Gardens with one coat of Rica «s Glossy Glam top coat.

Ford quietly endured their everyday tortures until he one day lost his cool and beat the tar out of the gang leader responsible for his being repeatedly thrown off an embankment.

Almost on cue — just the first example of where you can see the plot points right in front of you — her car is sideswiped causing it to flip down an embankment and crash.

Mr. Alioto's car apparently went out of control, swerving up an embankment and then back across the highway into oncoming traffic, where it hit a tractor trailer.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

While the struggle in the mud is real, just before sliding into an embankment it adjusts its trajectory and powers out of the knee - deep mess unscathed.

The Tundra does not offer a locking rear differential, but the big truck had no traction problems in our tests in which we drove a 4 - wheel - drive TRD edition up muddy embankments, crawled down steep hills and waded through several feet of water.