Sentences with phrase «large earth works»

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For many years to come, therefore, India will have a much larger group of working - age individuals than any other country on earth.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

It doesn't work for large numbers of marginalized people in the so called «developing» countries, nor for the homeless in the «developed» countries, nor for the environment, nor for the earth itself.

Religious people have faith in the miracle stories recorded thousands of years ago by people that had no idea what the universe (large and small) is composed of (earth wind and fire), or how it works (physics, chemistry, biology, etc).

To describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theology.

O Book, O Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran, Published by Everyman's Library on a dark day, I lift you from the Earth to which I recently flung you When my wrath grew too mighty for me, I lift you from the Earth, Noticing once more your annoying heft, And thanking God» though such thanks are sinful» That Kahlil Gibran died in New York in 1931 At the age of forty - eight, So that he could write no more words, So that this Book would not be yet larger than it is.

Even my larger failings, like trying to control my temper during my kids» tantrums or wondering how on earth I am ever supposed to figure out balancing work and parenting, are ultimately going to shape my life more than anyone else's (including my children's).

Gennaro and Bloomberg have worked together on green initiatives in the city and on Earth Day this year, Gennaro joined Bloomberg to launch a six - point plan to make existing large buildings energy - efficient through retrofits.

Instead they work on the equatorial bulge; due to its own rotation, the Earth is not a perfect sphere but an oblate spheroid, with an equatorial diameter about 43 kilometers larger than its polar diameter.

«NASA already is working to find asteroids that might be a threat to our planet, and while we have found 95 percent of the large asteroids near the Earth's orbit, we need to find all those that might be a threat to Earth,» said NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver.

In much previous work, scientists had simulated the effects of large - scale shocks resulting from colliding asteroids or from asteroids colliding with Earth.

This work is complementary to Kreemer's ongoing effort to quantify the deformation in all of Earth's plate boundary zones with GPS velocities — data that are for a large part processed in the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory.

«This shift to earlier weaning age in the time leading up to woolly mammoth extinction provides compelling evidence of hunting pressure and adds to a growing body of life - history data that are inconsistent with the idea that climate changes drove the extinctions of many large ice - age mammals,» said Cherney, who is conducting the work for his doctoral dissertation in the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

This research not only provides the first clear evidence that microorganisms were directly involved in the deposition of Earth's oldest iron formations; it also indicates that large populations of oxygen - producing cyanobacteria were at work in the shallow areas of the ancient oceans, while deeper water still reached by the light (the photic zone) tended to be populated by anoxyenic or micro-aerophilic iron - oxidizing bacteria which formed the iron deposits.

«Our work shows that there was no nitrogen crisis on the early Earth, and therefore it could have supported a fairly large and diverse biosphere.»

This work is complementary to Kreemer's ongoing effort to quantify the deformation in all of the Earth's plate boundary zones with GPS velocities - data that are for a large part processed in the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory.

«NASA already is working to find asteroids that might be a threat to our planet, and, while we have found 95 percent of the large asteroids near the Earth's orbit, we need to find all those that might be a threat to Earth,» NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said of the Grand Challenge.

Would any of these methods work on a much larger scale, either to cool Earth or keep our planet from warming more?

Lots of lovely and useful green and clean things for our Earth and Moon could be done by the business and other folks of America and the rest of the world once we get large numbers of robots and humans hustling and working hard on the Moon.

Its scientists input large troves of geological data into a computer, and then use them to model how the Earth works.

«Golden Exits» producer Adam Piotrowicz worked on both «Listen Up Phillip» and «Queen of Earth» and said the cast of «Golden Exits» could help attract a larger audience than his previous two films.

Beginning with significant historical works from artists such as Richard Long, who was one of the first artists to make walking his art form, to Ana Mendieta, who carved and shaped her own figure into the earth and documented these private sculptural performances, to Michelangelo Pistoletto's performance, Walking Sculpture, in which he and a group of people walked a large newspaper ball down the streets of Turin, the exhibition will include works from all decades since the 60s and commission artists to create new work for 2017.

In the 4 large - scale paintings featured in this exhibition, including Auguste Rodin: Les Cathédrales de France and A. R. A. K., the layers are broken up and areas of thickness are worked and worked again with earth - toned materials.

A horizon line writ large and vertical, this sculptural work suggests preoccupations with borders, archaeology, endurance and earth art.

Turrell began work in 1972 on possibly the largest piece of land art thus far, reshaping the earth surrounding the extinct Roden Crater volcano in Arizona.

The works on view are to a large extent informed by the physical and spiritual experience of these landscapes, the view of endless fields of dry wheat, the sensation of seeing the earth curve at the horizon, a prairie not unlike the desert of Taos, New Mexico, a destination of previous travels.

Michael Heizer's (b. 1944) large - scale earth works have redefined the parameters of sculpture.

This skill, and Zhang's referencing of thousands of years of art history from the contemporary moment to the distant past, is visible in the large, boldly painted five panel work Nothingness, Water, Fire, Wind, Earth.

Some larger, steel - mesh cages could have come right out of the days of earth works.

In contrast to Miyajima's large scale public artworks, which give an idea of the immersive nature of his work but are not on display during the exhibition in Sydney, his exhibited Pile Up Life sculptures (2009) are small «stupas» moulded from dried earth and studded with blue or red LEDs.

Farah works with natural processes like light, heat, earth, wind and water to make «forensic» paintings without paint and composed by forces larger than the artist's hand.

Vertigo Sea has as its narrative spine two remarkable books: Herman Melville's Moby - Dick (1851) and Heathcote Williams» epic poem Whale Nation (1988), a harrowing and inspiring work which charts the history, intelligence and majesty of the largest mammal on earth.

Hughie O'Donoghue: Scorched Earth @ Marlborough Fine Art Bright reds, oranges and a deep black slathered across large works makes these landscapes feel abstract and at times nightmarish.

In the Art in the Age of Altamira exhibition catalog, Jill Cook wrote that, after his cave visits, «Miró's preference for working off the easel on larger format works painted against a wall or on the ground, as well as his use of ochre pigments and earth tones developed.»

Since the 1960s, she has engaged the landscape through large - scale earth works and earth drawings, multi-media installation, encaustic paintings, sculptural objects, drawings and prints.

Her solo show 287 Steps opens on January 21st, the night before her large scale ephemeral work Spine of the Earth 2012 is performed in conjunction with the Getty Museum's Pacific Standard Time Performance Festival.

In addition to Inverted Birth the exhibition presents four individual works derived from Viola's large - scale permanent video installation Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water), 2014, at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Filled with light installations, monumental paintings, interactive graphic works and large scale public sculptures, Happy Station is designed to bring playfulness and delight to the day - to - day commute, making it the happiest train station on earth.

Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth, an exhibition of three large - scale works, will be on view at PaceWildenstein, 545 West 22nd Street, New York from September 10 — October 24, 2009.

Stuart's original approach to material and process has seen her create large - scale site - specific works in the landscape, sculptural installations incorporating objects, drawings, and audio - visual elements, as well as photographs, drawings and sculptures that bring the material of landscape — earth and rock — into the gallery.

Fossil Necklace (2013), a necklace comprised of 170 carved, rounded fossils, spanning geological time; Second Moon (2013), a work that tracks the cyclical journey of a fragment of the moon as it circles the Earth, via airfreight courier, on a man - made year - long commercial orbit; All the Dead Stars (2009), a large map documenting the locations of 27,000 dead stars known to humanity; Light bulb to Simulate Moonlight (2009), an incandescent bulb designed to transmit wavelength properties identical to those of moonlight; and History of Darkness (ongoing), a slide archive of darkness captured at different times and places throughout the universe and spanning billions of years.

For over four decades, Michelle Stuart has been engaged in land - art through her large - scale earth works and earth rubbings.

Mendes Wood DM from São Paulo showed a large mixed - media work on canvas and iron plate with resin objects by Paulo Nimer Pjota called Rammed earth façade part.

Given that the number of possible arrangements in a deck of cards is an «astronomically large number» (see above), the program will not run through all the possible combinations of musical notes during the lifespan of planet earth — assuming constancy of electrical power to the work and other contingencies.

Part 3 — Michael Heizer, Actual Size: Munich Rotary — from March 25 to April 10 Michael Heizer (b. 1944), renowned for his large scale earth works and landscape interventions, will present his iconic installation «Actual Size: Munich Rotary», realized in Germany in 1970 and composed of six black - and - white glass slide projections, six custom - made steel projectors, and six steel pipes with wood platforms.

In its largest manifestation, the work comprises 166 units, with each individual unit consisting of two tables and a section of earth.

Gormley's work has always explored the body as a place rather than an object, and here he takes us into a new zone of structural complexity while at the same time evoking the body as an open space of possibility connected with the earth as well as space at large.

Another, larger work in the exhibition is Earth Tones # 2.

MacConnel's works often take the form of large, patterned wall - hangings in a palette of bright earth tones.

The works in «Earth Muse» lead the way to «Walden Revisited,» a stunning installation of large - scale vertical photographs of the trees at Walden Woods by Canadian artist Thaddeus Holownia.