Sentences with phrase «many city ruins»

Archaeologists do not excavate «facts»; they excavate material remains — city ruins, wall foundations and potsherds.

I used to complain about City ruining football but this is completely insane and takes it to the next level!

The reason they're fighting is a good one: Citing the mass destruction of New York City, Washington D.C., Sokovia (the fictional city ruined in the end of «Avengers: Age of Ultron»), and at the start of this film, Lagos, Nigeria, Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt) informs the Avengers that the governments of the world want supervision over the superheroes.

When a mysterious curse threatens to transform everyone into shadowy demons, a magical eleven year - old girl must travel to a sunken city ruin — fighting pirates, monsters, and an undead sorcerer along the way — to find a weapon that can save her world.

Pamukkale and Hierapolis ancient city ruins in the Denizli region of Turkey is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Its parks are still full of elephants, rhinos, lions and heaps of other game; its rocky hills and deep ravines are still some of the continent's most stunning; its ancient stone city ruins, unique in Africa, are open to visitors; and the timeless plunge of Victoria Falls is still roaring.

The latter is a site of old Roman city ruins where the theatre is still in remarkable condition.

Away from Kas, inquisitive visitors of all ages will be mesmerised by the undersea ancient city ruins of Simena.

There are also areas (in the city ruins) which are relatively safe for stretching little legs in.

This is one of the many city ruins and is considered to be one of the most stunning.

* Highly detailed and precisely made car models, beautiful and visually convincing racing tracks located in various spectacular sceneries including mountains, coastline and ancient city ruins.

Players «traverse through city ruins and use a machete to kill human enemies in melee - style combat,» accompanied by «realistic gunfire, slashing sounds, and cries of pain.»

But this pale imitation of Los Angeles is nothing more than a set of generic city ruin dioramas — they're disappointingly small and cramped — strung together by long highway sections.

Her projects transform the remnants of dysfunctional commercial culture, revealing the inherent problems as well as the latent aesthetic potential within inner - city ruin.

Yannick Monget painted Paris and other cities ruined by climate change, see Grousson (2006) and Monget (2007).

Not exact matches

Visitors will have access to the ancient ruins at Mada'in Saleh, a relic of the same ancient civilization that built the better - known city of Petra in Jordan and a UNESCO world heritage site.

The fires in California's Wine Country have left entire neighborhoods in cities like Santa Rosa in ruin.

And to make room for the building, Stalin further destroyed a city already in ruins.

By the fall of 1929, the stock market peaked and then plunged, financially - ruining many stock investors (some of whom jumped out of tall city buildings to their deaths).

I urge Chilliwack City Council to take this unique opportunity — a window — to prevent the unthinkable possibility of having a pipeline leak ruin our community.

-LSB-...] Trump has successfully ruined the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City three times.

3) The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11) The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55) 4) The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23) Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance.

Our holy city of Jerusalem was laid waste and the land of Israel was in ruins.

Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.»

Well, not surprisingly, in 1845, Sir Austen Henry Layard discovered the ruins of this city proving that it did exist.

It turned out to be essentially a continuation of what had already been revealed — a plea for prayer and penance, but with an added series of images: a ruined city, a rugged Cross, a Pope shot at with arrows, bishops, clergy and faithful people martyred.

Many of the exiles had settled down very comfortably and had no appetite for the difficulties of life in a ruined city and an impoverished and unfamiliar countryside.

Trouble and weeping and fear and ruin come when the people forget the promises of God that bind us inextricably to each other — the hungry to the overfed, the city to the suburb, the innocent to the cynical, the triumphant to the brokenhearted.

Soleri recognizes that our cities are strangling themselves and ruining their environment.

I looked and the garden - land has become a desert and all its cities are in ruins.2

Once in New York City, when an old church building was being demolished to make way for a new one, a man riding past the ruined structure on a bus said to a friend, «This is the first time in years that I have seen the inside of a church.»

Is it really likely that when the Romans heard Paul's words about creation being «subjected to futility» in 8:20 they «could well have thought about how imperial ambitions, military conflicts, and economic exploitation had led to the erosion of the natural environment throughout the Mediterranean world, leaving ruined cities, depleted fields, deforested mountains, and polluted streams as evidence of this universal human vanity»?

When insurgents overran Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, few Western onlookers would have been aware that it stands on the ruins of Nineveh, the destination of the Bible's most unwilling prophet, Jonah.

4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.

In the ruins of a shrine excavated next to the gate of Lachish, the largest city of the kingdom of Judah after Jerusalem, archaeologists found an altar with the horns cut off from each corner.

Too many Christian women try to use the «submission» paradigm after their «city» is in ruins... this paradigm is for when the city is flourishing.

Hand - written on old - fashioned four-fold notepaper, it revealed an extraordinary vision that the children had seen, involving a «Bishop dressed in white» whom they took to be the Holy Father, who was shot and fell to the ground as he climbed over a ruined city filled with corpses.

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

The Twin Towers once stood proudly over the city; their remains» sixteen acres of ruins, a hole six stories deep looms just as large.

Its cities lay in ruins, foreign armies divided and occupied its territories, millions of people were in flight and without shelter; the entire population faced starvation.

An Israeli boy enjoying a picnic with his family in mid-November at the ruins of the biblical city of Beit Shemesh found what appeared to be the small head of a statue and showed it to an Israeli tour guide.

15 That day will be a day of wrath — a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness — 16 a day of trumpet and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the corner towers.

An enormous fire soon began to consume the ruined city.

Like the Roman Empire, the modern age will crumble from the crack of inordinate greatness beyond the interest of the many and the desire of the privileged few to sustain, and in the murky streets of ruined cities and meeting grounds of a billion humble habitations, our heroes and saints will show us how to begin history anew.

The exiled Hebrews, however, desired nothing quite so much as the rebuilding of that destroyed city and temple; their persistent ambition centered in the restoration of the very shrine whose ruin had done so much to refine and elevate their faith.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

«I have let you turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins...» But again we find the same lesson that this is not necessarily right in God's eyes.

Centered around Percy Fawcett, who traveled across South America as a cartographer in the early 20th Century, The Lost City of Z doesn't just follow an epic story of one man obsessed with discovering a mythic civilization that exists only in rumors and sparse ruins.

I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins, 26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?

The ruined cities of North Africa, once flowing with olive oil and honey, lie stagnant in the sand.