Sentences with phrase «of a bulldozer»

RE: «If Gore really believes that civil disobedience is an important strategy — then he needs to lead the effort and go chain himself to some fences and sit in front of some bulldozers with thousands of others.»
Itasca — As the grinding sounds of bulldozers multiply with every commercial and residential development in suburban areas, the demand for open space for park and recreational use is turning potential playgrounds into battlefields, says Elk Grove Park District Director Jack Claes.
If Gore really believes that civil disobedience is an important strategy — then he needs to lead the effort and go chain himself to some fences and sit in front of some bulldozers with thousands of others.
Unlike the work of bulldozers, which Berry calls «a powerful generalizer» that works against the impulse «to take care of things, to pay attention to the details,» «good work is always modestly scaled, for it can not ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known.
The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion, designed by Atelier Feichang Jianzhu, has a dramatic recycled polycarbonate facade; as we noted earlier, «no doubt those counterfeit CDs we usually see pictures of bulldozers going over, plus all the BPA filled polycarbonate bottles they can't sell.»
This Jewish Flesh Wyschogrod is taken with the story, which may or may not be apocryphal, that when Pope John XXIII saw the pictures of bulldozers pushing Jewish corpses into mass graves at the newly liberated Nazi murder camps, he exclaimed: «There is the body of Christ.»
The offense came out in a tight T formation — the gridiron equivalent of the bulldozer — and plowed us into the ground.
To choose Tevez over Berbatov - to prefer the insistently effective to the evidently beautiful - is to embrace the kind of mindset that fills lakes with concrete, grinds trees into mulch, and crushes rare birds under the tracks of bulldozers.
Eminent monarchs stood by the President as he sat behind the steering wheel of a bulldozer to symbolically open tool boxes for work to begin on the road.
One solution is to build a bin on the back of the bulldozer and fill it with regolith to make a counterweight before serious digging begins.Another is to outfit the bulldozer with augers, so it can screw itself into the lunar surface.
At 5 feet 8 inches, Max, 62, is rugby - player stocky with bushy eyebrows, a thick mustache, and all the subtlety of a bulldozer.
I'm very interested in how Dr. Perlmutter's research can enhance my understanding of what constitutes an optimal human diet, but it will take an army of bulldozers to convince me I really need milk, eggs, or meat to complete my transformation.
The cars in the film look like small Humvees crossed with some kind of bulldozer you would see at a construction site.
In a sparse school library, teacher Debra Gerstman competes with the sound of bulldozers cracking slabs of concrete to expand a nearby subway line.
The classic image of the market is that of a bulldozer compelling firms to improve constantly - or be crushed.
A number of the pieces, such as the depiction of a bulldozer knocking over a snake charmer from the 2006 series «Charming Nation,» address the rapid social changes confronting a globalizing India today, yet they often do this with a sense of ambivalence.
It was an instant hit, telling the story of bulldozer - led ethnic displacement and gentrification in Istanbul's heavily Roma Sulukule neighborhood through a gangster - rap music video filled with parcour, explosions, and chase scenes.
In The First Woman on the Moon (1999) she enlisted the help of bulldozers to transform a deserted beach in the Netherlands into a fictitious moonscape to stage a moon landing.
Indeed, I grew up caring deeply about the environment, so much so that as a kid I once left a threatening note on the seat of a bulldozer digging into a last patch of woods near our home in suburban Rhode Island.
But for now, the creatures who occupy or pass through this bit of land on Prince Edward County's south shore may do so without the threat of bulldozers rolling across the terrain or 50 - storey machines whirring overhead.
Finally, the «jobs» meme is so nonsense — we can easily maximize jobs by building new highways with shovels instead of bulldozers (or even using spoons instead of shovels) but it would bankrupt us.
In the village of Khaishi, residents threatened to block construction by orchestrating a sit - in in front of the bulldozers unless they received their compensation, which had vanished along with their former village headman.
As guardians of the park, they said they were trying to protect pristine areas from the destructive effects of bulldozers, fire engines and irrigation pipes.
Make use of levers, gears and motors to maneuver the boom of the bulldozer and place the bucket in the correct area.
Report to the management any defects or malfunctioning of the bulldozer and other equipment as well
Be responsible for operating, cleaning, repairing and maintaining efficiency of the bulldozer
repair of cutting edges, blades, buckets, and tracks on all types and sizes of bulldozer, excavators, mini excavators, backhoes
(TNS)-- Amid the California rumble of bulldozers and buzz of traffic, a 394 - unit apartment complex partly funded by Facebook is taking form here, with perks such as a bike repair shop, pet spa and sports pub designed to attract tech workers.
And if opponents like Burnaby, B.C., Mayor Derek Corrigan follow through with threats to throw themselves in front of the bulldozers, Trudeau will show no sympathy when the RCMP throws protestors into the clink, says Brownsey.
and «Mother Mary, have pity on us», as they attempts to hinder the work of a bulldozer and the police.
Jumping one step ahead of the bulldozer, Kane County Forest Preserve and St. Charles Park District officials hammered out final details of an agreement that will prevent development on 158 acres of St. Charles Township land.
And when the pastor, Li Jiangong, and his wife, Ding Cuimei, stepped in front of a bulldozer, it didn't stop.
Johnson lamented the government's decision to back a third runway at Heathrow — but skirted questions as to whether he would lie in front of bulldozers to prevent its construction.
Asked whether he would fulfil his previous pledge to lie in front of bulldozers to prevent a third runway from being built, Johnson replied: «The day when the bulldozers appear is a long way off, if indeed they ever materialise to build that third runway because after all there are at least four Conservative - led councils that have already made clear they are going to litigate against it.
So will Boris Johnson still lie down in front of the bulldozers to stop the runway being built, as he pledged earlier this year?
As both a Councillor and Parliamentary candidate I committed to lie in front of bulldozers and joined the Heathrow Climate Camp.
He also cited Boris Johnson's comment before the election that he would lie down «in front of those bulldozers» in order to stop the construction of a third runway at Heathrow.
Heathrow expansion is supported by George Osborne but opposed by senior Tories including Theresa May, Boris Johnson — who has vowed to «lie down in front of the bulldozers» to stop it» - and Tory MP Zac Goldsmith, who is running for election as London Mayor in May.
Shortly after lying down in front of a bulldozer, Arthur's friend Ford Prefect (Mos Def) arrives with some news of his own.
I'm sure scalping does work for some traders, but it always felt like picking up pennies in front of a bulldozer to me.
Patkar and several members of her organization, National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) were arrested after leading a large group of residents to stand in front of bulldozers and block the demolition site.
«I am going to stand in front of bulldozers to stop this project, and I expect my neighbours to join me,» Jackie Thomas, chief of the Saik» uz First Nation, part of the Yinka Dene Alliance, said regarding the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.
The former mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said he would lie in front of the bulldozers to stop this (a lot of people are hoping he keeps his word and are volunteering to drive them).
But again, it won't be easy, what with even the mayor of a Vancouver suburb willing to stand in front of a bulldozer to stop the expansion.
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