Sentences with phrase «even ancient housing»

Many cave hotels are former monasteries, abandoned mines, and even ancient housing for the poor.

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A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

After this opening drama, we see Gramma Tala (voice of Rachel House, «Hunt for the Wilderpeople») scaring small children of their island by relating ancient stories of sea monsters and such; all except little Moana (voice of Auli'i Cravalho, a Hawaiian high school sophomore making her film debut), who is drawn to the sea, even as a baby.

A recent aerial survey revealed thousands of ancient Maya structures previously hidden beneath the dense Guatemalan jungle, including houses, irrigation canals, fortifications, and even a pyramid.

You could even camp inside the stone walls of an ancient, roofless Inca house within one of the many ruin sites that aren't listed or signposted.

I think all those nominations where you can choose from all MMOs since ancient times: «best housing», «best crafting», «best model», «worst model», «most underrated», «most overrated», «best pvp», «best holiday» and even «best MMO» (leave only «best new MMO») should be scrapped altogether and instead you should think of awards that really showcase the trends of the past year with winners specific for each year.

This game is one of those «trigger» games for me, in that it triggers a very specific nostalgic memory — when doing my undergrad at UC Davis we had a wealth of old consoles at the house I was renting with friends (Genesis wasn't even the oldest — that honor fell to an ancient Atari 800XL), and I rediscovered a lot of my favorite Genesis games during that time, including X-Men 2.

Apart from the Venetian military, the problem was, as he wrote, «first from the numbers of modern houses built within the walls of the palace and even upon its old foundations; secondly from the inhabitants having pulled to pieces and utterly destroyed some parts of the antique work; and lastly from their having so blended the ancient and modern work together by repairs and alterations that it was not without great difficulty they could be distinguished.»

Bound by their 50 x 50 cm paper and defined by their pencil planometrics, the evocative title of the series pays a debt to Frank Stella, but they also make nods to other abstract expressionists, notably Barnett Newman, to the earlier suprematist paintings of Kazimir Malevich, to Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, to ancient Chinese cities as squares, to Islamic caravanserai and Italian cloisters, to the houses within houses of Oswald Mathias Ungers, and even to the composition of Greek chorus and 1970s CBGB punk — that is to say, to all the good things in life.

When you're not busy blasting aliens, or exploring ancient ruins, or solving 3D puzzles, you can browse the internet, watch movies, and mess around in a space that puts — I imagine — even Bill Gates» house to shame.