Sentences with phrase «network of tunnels»

Instead of using that money to improve life for its own citizens, it used it to buy missiles and construct an elaborate network of tunnels under the border to attack Israel.

Its creation, in four years, atop a complex network of tunnels dug to bury an intrusive highway, also rejuvenates a long - lost stretch of the Manzanares River, and in so doing knits together neighborhoods that the highway had cut off from the city center.

Described by La Tour du Pin as a «labyrinthine network of tunnels as intrauterine architecture, [comparable] to the unconscious side of the city of Torino — with its forgotten souls, desires and hidden phobias,» it will be open to the public for the first time since 1705.

In Metroid: Samus Returns you explore a subterranean cavern with an extensive network of tunnels and pathways to explore.

Worms can can clamber inside to access what is basically just a network of tunnels, but on the opponent's screen the facade will be put in place, obscuring their view of what you're up to.

Together, you'll walk beneath the beautiful colonnades and Italian decor that still remains, and learn about Abbot Kinney's network of tunnels below.

Hacienda San Jose was a sugarcane and cotton plantation that imported slaves from Africa and has an underground network of tunnels.

In 1987, the world's largest prehistoric copper mines were discovered beneath Great Orme, and today visitors can explore a network of tunnels laboriously excavated by our Bronze Age ancestors around 3,500 years ago.

This magical Southeast Asia river cruise along the Mekong River will take you through Vietnam and Cambodia, showing you the culture and local traditions of each country and the must - see sites along the way.Your adventure begins in bustling Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where you'll get a taste of the culture first - hand with a Vietnamese cooking class and go on a fascinating excursion to the Cu Chi Tunnels, an extraordinary network of tunnels used extensively during the war.

In the wild, a hamster spends the majority of its life in its den traveling to and from the various compartment through a network of tunnels.

The sponge's cells, its calcium carbonate or glasslike silica spicules, and the mass of collagen that forms its visible body all create a network of tunnels and chambers, with little flailing hairs called cilia on the walls that wave the water through and filter out plankton and waste.

She then lays an egg in the ball and buries it in a network of tunnels more than a meter deep, where it serves as food for the developing larvae inside.

To make matters worse, China is now plowing ahead with a controversial $ 62 - billion scheme to transfer water from the Yangtze to northern China, which is even more parched, through a network of tunnels and canals to be completed by 2050.

Headlamps on, we continue down the network of tunnels, the air becoming warmer and stiller as we leave the ventilation shaft behind.

These burrows sometimes have as many as five entry points, consisting of an intricate network of tunnels that often total up to 40 feet in length.

Now the CEO teases Tesla's all - electric Model S in the tunnel — giving us a glimpse of what his vision of a network of tunnels alleviating traffic in cities could look like.

Bechtel is currently overseeing a major portion of Crossrail, the largest infrastructure installation in Europe — a network of tunnels and rail links in London that will connect the city to the outer suburbs.

Its incredible destructive power makes it ideal for hardened targets like ISIS» network of tunnels and bunkers in Afghanistan.

In 2016, entrepreneur Elon Musk launched the Boring Company with the goal of one day constructing a large urban network of tunnels.

The African termite (Macrotermes natalensis) builds giant mounds in the savannah on top of vast networks of tunnels that radiate to their foraging sites.

«The oil will settle into these networks of tunnels and burrows and create oil slicks for years and possibly decades to come,» Mansur says.

Not exact matches

While it received approval to dig a two - mile test tunnel beneath the headquarters of Musk's space travel company, SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, the Boring Company will have to convince a number of local governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough research and development to make an operational tunnel network a reality.

The ultimate goal of the Boring Company is to build an underground tunnel network that can support cars or a Hyperloop, but currently it's digging a test tunnel in the SpaceX parking lot.

Ultimately, Musk wants to build a network of underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.

With the Boring Company, Musk aims to build a network of underground tunnels in Los Angeles that would move cars on electric skates.

All fittings and reminders of its past were removed decades ago, although a nearby tunnel network, which retains bunk beds, has been listed by English Heritage.

The Channel Tunnel also highlighted the shortcomings of the British rail network: Eurostar trains were able to run at speeds of up to 186 mph in France, but they had to travel much more slowly on English rail tracks.

The higher prices take effect March 22 and are part of a package of fare and toll increases affecting the sprawling network made up of commuter trains, subways, buses, bridges and tunnels.

Moynihan Station, a planned new transit hall in the post office, would connect to Penn Station through a network of underground tunnels.

Principally operated by the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, KAGRA consists of an array of mirrors and laser beams set up in an L - shaped tunnel network with two arms just under 2 miles (3 kilometers) long.

He then introduced numerous international journalists to the pyramids, for there was not just one pyramid, he had discovered, but a «complex» of two (now four) connected by a network of underground tunnels.

The storm surge breached New York City's hundred - year - old sea walls and flooded the underground network of subway tunnels — the most destructive event in the subway system's 108 - year history, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joseph Lhota.

So far Bowen and his team have tested the device at a railroad underpass, in a mock network of sewer pipes in Georgia — part of a military training facility — and in several outdoor tunnels and caves in and around Boston.

It's a giant network of super-wide interconnected tunnels dug into the limestone bedrock under the city.

The final competition, which will take place in 2021, will include three challenges that involve navigating in one of three environments: a network of human - made tunnels, a subterranean municipal - transit system and a network of underground natural caves.

Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding tunnels, lives a tiny mouse named Celestine.

The short film begins with the highly - capable convertible being lowered into the tunnel network by crane, before negotiating a range of obstacles through the 6.2 - metre diameter tunnel.

First prototype of Land Rover's new Range Rover Evoque Convertible was driven through a 42 km tunnel network for a development test.

Land Rover says that the Evoque Convertible is the first vehicle to be driven in the 42 kms long network of Crossrail tunnels which provided the perfect disguise to engineers to hide the prototype with its roof down, without having to worry about auto paparazzi.

Fuel consumption for the week was 11.7 L / 100 km, which isn't as dire as it sounds, considering the first 90 minutes in our custody the RAV4 sat in unmoving traffic with the air - conditioning running as Melbourne's road network grappled with a load of offal spilled at the entry to the Burnley tunnel.

It's connected to its neighbors by an extensive network of Interstate highways, bridges, and bridge - tunnel complexes.

To keep their nests clean, they usually take care of business while covering their extensive territories in their nightly scavenging or in the tunnel networks in their burrows.

Cars are relegated to driving underneath the city through an amazing network of one - way tunnels.

This is a network of subterranean tunnels that were once the refuge of bandits and smugglers.

Head down to the third longest cave in the world where you can spend hours exploring the underground tunnels and networks that spread over 194 miles of mapped passageways.

While spectacular scenery and diverse marine life are certainly big attractions at Elephant Head, many divers consider the most outstanding feature to be the intriguing network of archways, swim - through's and tunnels among the rocks.

The vast network of the Cu Chi Tunnels was used effectively by the Vietcong during the Vietnam War to quarter its soldiers and store weapons.

Moscow's superb metro system is also worth mentioning, with its atmospheric interiors, and web - like network of underground tunnels.

One of the more unique aspects of the complex is an underground service tunnel network that hotel guests won't see.

The amazing trail itself, with its stairs and tunnels, is part of a network of 30.000 km.