Sentences with phrase «of cement blocks»

As the lettuce wilts, the wire loosens, causing one of the cement blocks to fall.

Remember back last fall when I happened to mention in a post that Buddy and I transplanted some late cabbage, broccoli, kale and lettuce into a thrown together cold frame of cement blocks and old windows?

Not exact matches

The conflict in Ukraine also posed a huge stumbling block to de-escalation of tensions between Russia and the West, the report said, noting that a US decision to provide lethal arms to Ukraine would probably cement the current stalemate.

With its painted cement block walls and low ceilings, the hall has the feel of a locker room corridor.

The walls are of concrete block with a high content of fly ash, a waste product of coal - fired electric power generation that can be recycled as a replacement for portland cement.

It is the way Mike Tyson used to expand, pre-Buster Douglas, as he coiled to unload a block of cement onto the chin of a terrified foe.

According to the police, without verifying the identity of Captain Mahama, the assemblyman and armed townsfolk accosted the military officers, gave him chase, shot at him, and eventually pounced on him using crude weapons such as cement blocks, clubs, among others, until he died around 10 am on Monday, two hours after he started a 20 km jog.

Citi News earlier reported that, students were sitting on cement blocks due to the lack of furniture, following the increase in the number of students under the...

Citi News earlier reported that, students were sitting on cement blocks due to the lack of furniture, following the increase in the number of students under the government's Free Senior High School programme.

Without verifying the claims of the snail seller, the assemblyman and armed residents accosted the military officers and lynched him using cement blocks, clubs among others.

He asked the Omanhen to provide land on which he will build a cold store for the people of Komenda, stones for a sea defence project, roofing sheets, pavement blocks and cement for the renovation of the traditional council's office.

The essential building blocks for the foundation of a prosperous and dynamic Erie County are right here, and we have been cementing that foundation for the last three years.

A small group of human studies have been done on a drug called propranolol, which blocks the action of stress neurotransmitters that help cement memories in the brain, but LeDoux's work shows the potential for greater precision.

Elsa Garmire, director of the University of Southern California's Center for Laser Studies, has found that lasers are good at removing paint from brick, cement building blocks, wood, metal and marble.

The extraction of the skull from the cemented block took two years to complete as it was a tough and difficult process.

You can substitute «garage adaptations» of picnic benches, sandbags, and cement blocks, but good equipment will pay dividends and improve safety and efficiency.

I use to make all my paints that way but you need to be super vigilant about capping or you have a block of cement as you can never get it as smooth.

One mouse lands on a block of cement, and a plug drops down on his head.

Screenwriter William Monahan gifts Wahlberg with cement blocks of text about the pains of mediocrity.

There's no point in me making a cement block if nobody's going to make a building out of it.

A school structure that requires students to move to new teachers each year, where learning is in cement blocks of 40 minutes, and where teachers have little or no control over the schedule would be a difficult structure for integrated, project - based learning.

It uses ultrasonic park assist, which means all you have to do is listen for the beeps — though we should add that not all sonar parking systems we've tested have warned us of out - of - the - way hazards, like cement parking blocks.

Another MINI special edition model rolled out of the block recently as part of the MINI Yours program, further cementing the BMW - owned as one of the most fan - appealing brands out on the market these days.

During that first winter in their new home, they noticed a large crack in the cement - block floor of their garage.

Picture a single - story cement block establishment, surrounded by a vast pot - holed car park, five to ten miles outside of (a small) town on a semi-deserted road.

12 Get a block of wet cement or plaster of Paris to make paw prints of your dog's paws.

Our dog kennels are a cement foundation with 3 feet of cement hollow tile block between each run.

I like recreational bones for puppies up to the age of about 6 or 7 months, but if the bones are left out and become dry they are like a cement block!

If you try to use litter that clumps when it becomes wet, the clumps could become stuck in your hamster's fur like small blocks of cement.

Here's the caveat: The cement block building that is a beacon of hope and a haven for homeless animals sits about 20 yards from the river.

Or you could rock it really cheap and easy: Use two cement blocks and plop a piece of plywood right on top in between, exactly the same way you built bookshelves back in college.

The stove rests upon the same brickwork pattern of dark cement blocks as the house.

You can't walk down the street without seeing a horse cart full of cement bags or cinder blocks.

In this world of hand - holding video games that will nudge you in the right direction if you even think about venturing off path, Natural Selection 2 throws you into the deep end of a diving pool with a cement block -LSB-...]

This sense in his work of the tangible, a coming together of his first job painting houses and his implacably wall - like landscapes, lasted throughout Bogart's lifetime, through to the overwhelming presence of his celebrated late paintings, glowing blocks constructed, quite literally, out of great globs of pigment mixed with cement.

Taking the physical forces of nature, namely entropy and gravity, as its subject matter, Untitled 1968 consists of a head of lettuce wedged between two cement blocks held together by wire.

In Kassel, the piece was hidden away in an off - trail section of the city park littered with compost heaps and cement blocks.

Located at the southeast entrance to Central Park, Open House stands just eight blocks from the original mansion and transforms Doris C. Freedman Plaza into a ballroom, featuring cast cement sculptural interpretations of the interior's opulent furniture.

The weight of the blocks could have shattered even the gallery's cement foundation, so the team made a sculptural on - ramp.

Teruya makes drawings of elements of urban design and architecture — bollards, wood planks, cement blocks — as well as actual structures, which he then cuts and arranges to create crisp, elegant collaged drawings.

Not many art appreciators were there to block my view of Rob Pruitt's hilarious installation: big fancy abstract paintings twinkling with the artist's signature glitter, innertube objets encrusted with more sparkly «action painting,» and (literally) heavy - duty floor pieces composed entirely of cement - filled jeans (Levi's, Sasson, brands from every price point): Five stuffed pairs «sitting up» created a starfish; a snakelike lineup of several more doing splits straddled the floor like a team of torso - free cheerleaders; denim couples, oozing cement cellulite, spooned, mounted each other, and / or tempted one to sit on them like furniture.

Andre's works were typically non-figurative, usually consisting of identical ready - made commercial units, such as bricks, cement blocks, or metal plates, put together in geometric arrangements, and placed directly on the floor so as to emphasize material, form, and structure - inviting viewers to question the space around them.

Right at the entrance to the section dedicated solely to contemporary art galleries, it immediately steals visitors» attention: a gigantic moving block of cement — a very primary element but also an enigmatic, larger - than - life reference to an inscrutable future.

Borrowing its title from a Hawaiian word used to describe a miracle worker (or most likely the name of the company in John Swanbeck's 1999 film adaptation of Roger Rueff's Hospitality Suite), the sculpture consists in a large American flag squashed by a cement block.

1 As work progresses on the foundations, a plate compactor is used to ensure a solid, stable base for the concrete slab; 2 pouring the concrete slab; 3 a cross-section of the wall build - up showing wet dash finish followed inside by external insulation, 215 mm solid block walls, sand - cement plaster and insulated plasterboard internally; 4 airtightness detailing around joist ends; 5 pro clima Intello airtightness system under counter battens to create a service void while minimising airtight layer damage by service penetrations; 6 a parge coat serves as the airtight layer on the inner face of the single leaf block walls.

This treatment strongly favours wind / solar because almost half of Chinese coal consumption is actually industrial (e.g. steel and cement — the very building blocks of developing world growth).

Coal has a vital role in building modern societies by providing access to baseload electricity and is a critical building block for development — metallurgical coal is an essential ingredient in steel and much of the world's cement is produced using coal, both vital materials in building sustainable societies.

So this time around I ended up changing from jack stands to cement blocks and adding more of them so I had a more stable foundation and in the end my entry way was a good bit further off the ground.

This entails a danger of replacing constructive models perfectly adapted to the climate, constructive, economic and social reality, for housing models based on concrete blocks, steel sheets or fiber cement.

We should be certain the foundation is made of cement and cinder blocks.