Sentences with phrase «excavating for»

Gamma is excavating for a planned 799 - foot (244 - meter) condominium tower near the corner of Sutton Place, and is racing to finish the foundation before a potential rezoning can disrupt its plans.

Gamma is excavating for a planned 799 - foot condo tower near the corner of Sutton Place, and is racing to finish the foundation before a potential rezoning can disrupt its plans.

Proper steps must be taken when excavating for foundations to ensure that the area is correctly prepped for construction.

In excavating for the works, a large number of animal remains, ancient coins, and other curious objects were found, most of which have been deposited in the British Museum.»

Workers excavating for the expansion of the public works garage uncovered dirt that smelled of diesel fuel, said John Turner, public works director.

«My purpose is to excavate for Mongolia and get them going,» he says.

By the end of the season, 30 tonnes of dinosaur bones had been excavated for further study in New York.

My favorite among these are the Assassin Tombs you can excavate for the seals and of course loot and bragging rights.

This looked like a collective World War I fantasia being excavated for the first time.

In the case of El Hierro, where the storage solution is a water reservoir purpose - excavated for the system, the easiest way to increase the duration of the storage would be to make the grid smarter, so that electricity is mostly consumed when wind is blowing.

Not exact matches

For example, it is no use to schedule the asphalt contractor to install the driveway if the excavating contractor has not completed the rough grading.

Material for the Boring Bricks will be taken from the rocks and dirt excavated by the company's tunnel boring machine.

In excavating the story of King's visit to Harlem Hospital, I uncovered my grandfather's own fight for civil rights — and realized I'd misunderstood his legacy as a black doctor all along.

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

Why didn't the fact that the copper mines they were excavating that were dated to the time of Solomon (who used copper for the temple) get any kind of media play?

She first excavates the roots of our corporate heartlessness» in our culture's disordered desires — what she describes as our culture's «addiction to consumerism,» its «idolatry of money» and its «massive failure of compassion» for other creatures and the earth.

For example, prompted by new techniques for dating pottery, Carl Watzinger in the 1920s reexamined the pottery from Jericho which he and Ernst Sellin had excavated between 1907 and 19For example, prompted by new techniques for dating pottery, Carl Watzinger in the 1920s reexamined the pottery from Jericho which he and Ernst Sellin had excavated between 1907 and 19for dating pottery, Carl Watzinger in the 1920s reexamined the pottery from Jericho which he and Ernst Sellin had excavated between 1907 and 1909.

In 1993 - 94, for example, archaeologists excavating at Tell Dan in modern Israel discovered two fragments of an inscription that refers to «the house of David.»

Eloth was near Ezion - geber, the site of a commercial enterprise of Solomon, whose facilities for refining copper in the area have been excavated.

Excavating what is at your core as a leader provides a much - needed compass, releasing clarity and an incredible power for achievement.

Like good poetry, a good spiritual memoir excavates everyday life for beauty and truth, grabs the reader by the shoulders and says, «Pay attention!

Amber is commonly mistaken for a stone or crystal when the substance is actually excavated resin that spent millions of years hardening underneath the Earth's surface.

He said the proposal called for an area that had been used as an ice skating rink to be excavated.

Each hooligan received her frozen hand in a shallow baking dish, along with a set of tools for excavating, a bowl of driveway salt coloured with food colouring, and a shaker of plain table salt.

Invite your kids to excavate the animals in this Jello Sensory Play ideal for toddlers and preschoolers.

The director of the Tinley Park Park District is hoping to begin excavating land, installing drainage pipes and erecting fences this year for a seven - acre dog park about a half - mile west of the Tinley Park Public Library.

But while archaeologists have identified many sites in the Chicago area, relatively few have been systematically excavated since there are too many sites for archaeologists to keep up with, she said.

For boys, you could add small legos or tiny characters for them to excavate and discovFor boys, you could add small legos or tiny characters for them to excavate and discovfor them to excavate and discover.

The remains, thought to be over 5000 years old, had been excavated from the site in 2008 and are currently being kept for research by scientists at the University of Sheffield.

«The sites that have been excavated are those that the international community has prioritized, but you could see Greenlandic scientists targeting other ones, for example sites that are at risk of loss from climate change.»

«A certain amount of confusion» surrounds the original locations of bones excavated at Birka and then bagged for storage, including those of the proposed woman warrior, Jesch adds.

Old school fieldwork is also part of the process: Goebel, for example, is looking forward to excavating sites in Alaska that might challenge or augment the migration models created with genetic data.

The researchers examined artifacts previously excavated from the site, which are mostly flint tools for cutting and scraping, and flint debris created in their manufacture.

We've been excavating a site on the beach about 10 meters from the high tide line for about 10 years, finding stone tools and ancient mammal bones and teeth.

Still, Clark calculates that 100 square yards of regolith excavated to a depth of only two inches will produce 660 pounds of oxygen, enough to sustain a four - member explorer team for 75 days.

A tiny striped fish called Neolamprologus obscurus only found in Lake Tanganyika in Zambia excavates stones to create shelter and increase the abundance of food for all fish in the group.

If the impact did excavate mantle material, and it doesn't contain olivine, that would have substantial implications for models of how the Moon was formed, Moriarty said.

The dramatic site of Brak had been briefly excavated by Mallowan in the 1930s, but Christie found it not to her liking, since rainfall was too sparse for the flowers she loved to grow; they split their time with another ancient mound farther north with a slightly wetter climate.

In the end, 37 wrecks were uncovered, including the first Byzantine galleys — slim, long warships — ever excavated, cargo - laden trading vessels and small sailing boats for local travel.

The long dead can not consent to be excavated, studied and displayed, but neither can they consent to be removed from their graves to make room for roads and houses.

That's what Huw Groucutt, a paleoarchaeologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and his team were looking for when they began excavating sites in the Arabian Desert more than 10 years ago.

Not only have he and his team been able to select the most promising sites for on - the - ground fieldwork, but they can also use the images to reconstruct the Garamantes» regional footrpint — something that would have been very hard to do by excavating one site at a time.

(B) Horner, who has been excavating dinosaurs in Montana for 30 years, supervises research for the project.

And the arduous work of excavating and plastering the fossil was not the end of the saga, Martill recalls: «Building plaster's got clay in it and takes ages to dry, so we looked for firewood — which is not easy to find in a desert — dug a trench on either side of the bone and lit fires to encourage it to dry.»

That would provide more valuable evidence of Neolithic organisation, without the need to excavate the trees and check for characteristic cut marks.

A research team led by Marc Lebeau of the European Center for Upper Mesopotamian Studies and Antoine Suleiman of the Directorate - General of Antiquities and Museums (Syria) began to excavate Tell Beydar, a large mound — or «tell» — rising out of the flat steppes near the Khbr River.

Many of the seeds excavated in 2012 and 2013 have been analyzed by Chiara Comegna in the laboratory of Gaetano di Pasquale at the University of Naples Federico II, using a morphometric program originally devised for tomato seeds.

We sought to bring new tools for chemical analysis with us into the field, so we can do obsidian sourcing as we excavate or survey an archaeological site, not wait until months or years later to learn the results.

For Hermann Parzinger, the 49 - year - old German archaeologist who excavated the tombs of the wounded warrior and the cancerous prince, the Scythians have been an obsession.

Based on experimentally derived estimates of body mass from the Ileret hominin tracks, the researchers have also inferred the sexes of the multiple individuals who walked across footprint surfaces and, for the two most expansive excavated surfaces, developed hypotheses regarding the structure of these H. erectus groups.