Sentences with phrase «like building towers»

From numbers and counting, to spatial relations and geometry, much of early play like building towers or creating patterns with toy cars practices basic preschool math.

«As I've said before, building a tower at the South Street Seaport is like building a tower at Colonial Williamsburg,» she said.

Like building a tower of Vikings, stitching yourselves together to one giant Mega Zombie, or picking each other up with a quick stab in the butt.

Not exact matches

The result is an increase in carve - out deals, add - on acquisitions, and more firms building their own businesses around assets like wireless towers or servicing mortgages.

«But we are still looking for «tough» projects where we can shine,» says Morin, referring to jobs like their ongoing restoration of the ventilation towers in the centre block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.

So it's not surprising that Trump's buildings that cater to secondary home buyers, like Trump Tower, are down the most.

Instead of a bubble, our beliefs should be like a Jenga tower that is built on a solid foundation (that of Jesus Christ and the «essentials» of the Christian faith).

One was some forgettable office building shaped like a spaceship, but the other two were more familiar: the Pentagon and the World Trade Center twin towers.

It is a steel beam connected to another at a 90 degree angle, just like thousands of others that were used to build the towers.

Pascal longed to build a home for human beings in the world he inherited, he burned «with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite» — that is, to construct a poem like that of Dante which would locate human being in the new scheme of things.

Rauf described the center to be built two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center towers - destroyed by terrorist - hijacked commercial jets on September 11, 2001 - as a «shared space for community activities, like a swimming pool, classrooms and a play space for children.»

We build a tower of Babel when we suppose that knowledge is like a jigsaw puzzle.

The Red Sox, meanwhile — in the house of their tormentor, Babe Ruth — built a lead like a Jenga tower and then awaited its inevitable collapse.

She like to build towers and houses and move the little people around.

If the playdate was a success, talk with them about what they enjoyed this time and what they might like to do at their next get - together: «You two had such fun building the block tower together.

Instead of saying, «I like how you built that Lego tower,» respond with, «Wow you worked hard on that!»

Your toddler will feel like they are accomplishing a massive task by building a tower.

Many toddlers like to build towers with them.

Nevele Investors» Michael Treanor recently stood atop the tower to point out the buildings that would be knocked down and which defining features — like the tower and the «Mad Men» - era lobby — would be saved.

Many residents feared the tower would obstruct views and stick out like a sore thumb in neighborhood of low - rise 19th - century buildings.

Mr Duncan Smith added that unless we build hundreds of tower blocks, like Hong Kong or Singapore, high - rises will never make a major contribution to the UK's housing stock.

Like the city regulations, the statewide rules will require building owners to register their cooling towers — up until now, the city has had no definitive information on how many cooling towers exist or where they are — and will require all cooling towers to be tested for legionella in the next 30 days.

«That's just the right frequency to damage tall buildings like the Dharahara Tower because it's close to their natural period,» Avouac explains.

I found a nice railing area that somewhat looks like Carrie's Parisian balcony, but this is my New York take on Parisian style, with Chelsea buildings in the background rather than the Eiffel Tower.

Built like a tall, slender chest of drawers, our Chloe Jewelry Tower features many places to house your jewelry collection in an organized style.

The first thing that caught my eye was Kuchlbauer Tower, a Dr. Seuss - like building located nearby in Abensberg.

Early - stage dating should be like building a child's block tower: if a lower block doesn't fit, stop playing with it.

Kogonada, a video essayist with Reddit cred, frames everything from towering glass office buildings to the long hallways of Casey's house with Zen - like composition, giving Columbus a beauty that strengthens the foundation of its two transcendent lead performances.

Take a universe that leans heavily on inspiration from StarCraft, add in a great touch interface and simplified base building that feels a bit more like a tower defense game, and you've got Iron Marines.

Like most tower defence games, players must build and upgrade various attack towers in order to kill off the advancing enemy forces.

So long as it sounds some ground note of reality — even a random, extraneous ground note, like that of the Weinstein scandal — it can build up a ringing tower of sympathetic vibrations that you'd swear were symphonic, if they didn't hang in the air like ghosts.

And like that earlier movie, which was confined to a 40 - story Brutalist tower, an edifice in which the tenants descend deeper into savagery, Free Fire takes place almost entirely in one building, a derelict warehouse in Boston where bodies start to pile up.

But creating dynamic video content without a supporting platform of activities and applications is like building a glistening tower without a sturdy foundation — it looks pretty, but never quite holds up.

Each building has a catchy name, like Noun Tower or Pronoun Place, and has a lid that easily comes on and off.

The new lighter and tighter body is achieved through increased use of high strength and ultra high strength steel, the addition of a larger front tower strut brace (as used in sports cars like the Nissan 370Z), and a new rear structural support built into the rear pass - through / parcel shelf.

For those who haven't read the book yet or, for that matter have but would like a quick summary of some of the history of the Tower, here are a few highlights (and below the review you'll find more about the Beefeaters): Where is the Tower and why was it built?

Aecon and its predecessors built Canadian landmarks like the CN Tower, the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Calgary Olympic Oval and the Halifax Shipyards.

Inside the vast fortified compound you will find three cathedrals, the Patriarch's Palace, a church and the bell tower of Ivan the Great, and together these buildings are the holiest sites of Russian Orthodoxy — Moscow's Vatican, if you like.

From Highway One, you will see this incredible complex of ornately embellished towers and buildings perched high on a coastal hilltop, like a coastal Shangri La with 360 views.

La Paz is the highest Capital City in the world and is almost like a time warp of Latin American and indigenous cultures, with 1950s public buses, art deco buildings and even some historic architecture designed by Gustave Eiffel, the engineer behind the Eiffel Tower!

The Scottish Parliament Building, a discordant ode to steel, oak and granite, and the streamlined neo-fortress of the Museum of Scotland are both comfortably embedded among precarious medieval buildings that teeter - like grey - stone Jenga towers over Old Town's cobblestone streets.

But those tiled roofs and narrow, labyrinth - like streets aren't the only things that attract people to the town; on a sunny day the Jade Dragon Snow mountains can be seen towering over the horizon and providing a dramatic backdrop to the antique timbered buildings of the town itself.

Jaideep J Bhatia, the property's director of marketing and communications, described the feel as «more like a home than a hotel» and would allow the property to appeal to «the two types of business traveller», with the original building catering for those looking for a bed for the night, and the new tower designed for those who need more club - style facilities.

There is no other building in Myrtle Beach like Kingston's Margate tower!

The city has an amazing blend of old, very old, ancient and brand new, with vast towering skyscrapers and futuristic sporting stadia built only yards from ancient wonders like the Forbidden City.

Seen from the lake, Varenna looks like a colourful painting with its brightly painted houses and buildings, flowers along the lake edge, a castle tower above the tall pines on the verdant mountain behind, and the spire of the Chiesa di San Giorgio rising up above the roofs.

Exhibits: Model of bridge tower used in testing original bridge design, artifacts like rivets and hardhats, Building the Bridge video.

It has both modern marvels and famous temples and gardens woven through the buzzing metropolis (the capital's modernization drive prior to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics led to the creation of iconic new buildings like the CCTV Tower, Bird's Nest, and Water Cube).

Like many of its iconic sister hotels around the world, which lay claim to some of the best addresses in town, Fairmont Hangzhou will be located atop the city's tallest building, enjoying an enviable spot in the heart of Qianjiang Century CBD, an upcoming business centre that will house large scale meeting and convention venues, Grade A office towers, high - end residences and commercial and retail spaces.

Assuming the tower - like building seen in the first image posted above (the one showing an aircraft wing) is the same structure as can be seen in the center of the map above, the new Centurion Lounge looks like it will be located next to the SWISS lounge (shown just above Gate B23C on the Map)....