Sentences with phrase «of cement walls»

It's not really something that West Africans do... anyway, my Dad cut a fireplace and stockings out of construction paper (using orange and yellow paper for the fire's flames) and taped them to one of the cement walls in our home.

In other words, USB sticks poking out of cement walls around New York, an antithesis to cloud computing, Google's server farms, and the assumption that we can find all the data we need online.

Not exact matches

«It would be considerable amounts of stone and concrete and cement,» says Nye, about building the border wall.

The ground was paved and the walls were dense, made of stone or cement with stucco - like coating.

The unfinished cement floor is cut through with a couple of white walls, slapped up in a hurry when management realized the open - concept design hadn't left space for meetings.

US election + BREXIT = populist repudiation of era of inequality, globalization, wage deflation; cements BofAML themes of peak Liquidity, Inequality, Globalization + Main St over Wall St. Electoral trends could mark secular low in long - term bond yields (Chart 1).

Trump's central campaign promise, as you know, is to build a «big, beautiful, powerful wall» along the U.S. - Mexico border, which analysts at investment firm Bernstein estimate could cost anywhere between $ 15 billion and $ 25 billion, requiring 7 million cubic metres of concrete and 2.4 million tonnes of cement, among other materials.

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.

Over the walls, I had to negotiate the broken glass bedded into the cement at the top of the walls and often went home with torn pants and got a clip round the ear.

We used the same number of fudge pieces for each wall and tried to roughly use the same thickness of «cement», but this wasn't entirely accurate.

It amounts to a kind of Noodle Theory: Throw enough different kinds of noodles at a wall long enough and eventually one will stick, no matter whether the noodle is buckwheat or soba or the wall is cement or wood paneled.

A cement formed by fungi - produced minerals and chemical weathering lines the walls of the hole and temporarily maintains the branching shape of the tree hollows.

Not only were the walls of the tunnels littered with hyphae, the equivalent of fungal roots, but they also were covered with a cementing mineral.

The result was Spinybot, which could ascend rough surfaces like trees and cement walls with the aid of microclaws tipped with tiny spines, a mechanism borrowed from insects like the cockroach.

While many cranes and cement mixers are at work in L'Aquila, much of the town's historic centre is unoccupied and frozen in the state it was shortly after the earthquake, with simple beams shoring up windows, doorways and cracked walls and vegetation beginning to encroach.

They found that the bacterium produces carbonate crystals that form a cement that binds tightly to existing calcite grains, lining the walls of the pores without plugging them.

Both types of wells are supposed to be walled with multiple layers of steel tubing and cement and regularly monitored for cracks.

I've never been a huge fan of cycling classes, and I've always found pedaling away on an elliptical while staring at a cement wall and listening to the same Taylor Swift song on repeat to be a little soul - sucking.

Clad in Cement Tile Shop Bordeaux floor tiles, this gorgeous bathroom features a glass partition separating a rain shower head mounted to a white subway tile backsplash fixed above a freestanding tub placed in front of a window beneath a wall mounted polished nickel shower kit.

But when 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi turns into the two - hour - long action symphony it can barely wait to become — a harrowing stretch of shadowy aggressors charging the walls of a compound, bullets pinging off metal, spent ammo casings showering the cement underfoot, endless carnage — this director is completely in his wheelhouse.

And then when he bared his chest after getting attacked by a dinosaur, he cemented his place on thousands of teen girls» bedroom walls.

They're made out of traditional iron - reinforced concrete beams and columns, but the cinderblocks in the walls are replaced with «eco-bricks» - plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic waste material such as chip packets - that are sandwiched in between chicken wire and covered in cement.

Patricia Ralph, shared a story that, in hindsight, feels prophetic: «When the school pulled off a blackboard panel to install an electronic whiteboard as part of the conversion, Ralph saw that a cross was drawn directly onto the cement wall.

It was in the unfinished basement of an old school — cement floors and walls, ceiling - to - floor poles throughout the room.

A circle of protesters formed across from a line of cement barriers, watchful guards, an oversized black S.U.V., and a thick wall of shrubbery.

The extended mirrors help, but it's not the kind of machine you can lazily pilot with one hand, especially when passing semitrucks in tight, cement - walled construction zones.

They stop things as if hitting a wall of wet cement, so we were able to late - brake with almost no fading by the final hotter lap.

The lights have been out in the lobby since I moved in; they never finished the interior walls in the foyers outside the elevator, and the windows are boarded up, so every time I step outside the apartment door I'm in a weird twilight world of bare cement and blue fluorescent light.

You may remember from What Works on Wall Street that it can be very profitable to do just that; Triumph of the Optimists cements those findings.

These will need to be placed on top of a washable surface, such as cement or linoleum (as shown in the photo of the pen constructed against an existing wall).

Urine odors can permeate from the floor, be it cement or wood, from the tack strip, and even from the framework of the house behind the walls.

However the details are cemented in the memories of Texans, her story has resonated as an essential part of Texas history, seeping through the hotel's historic walls and influencing the travelers who visit and discover this unique tale.

Walk a bit further down the lane to find a bunch of square - shaped bungalows with brushed cement floors, wood walls, tiled wet bathrooms and benches on small porches.

These pools exist because of white cement walls that retain the sea water after every high - tide.

After dinner (or before), wander down to the Split (ocean area that separates the island) and have a drink at The Lazy Lizard, a bar with a «beach» area that consists of a sunken picnic area surrounded by cement sea walls.

The other thing I learned that swayed me towards the hostel tour is a lot of the more touristy areas of the wall don't have the original stones, they have been reconstructed using cement, making it not as authentic.

The walls are constructed without mortar or cement and yet the stones fit so beautifully together that it's impossible to even slide a blade of grass between them.

The plum colored cement walls of the en - suite bathroom combined with a 1930's tub and octagonal washbasin create a retro - romantic atmosphere.

In addition to the in - room safes, security comes by way of a tall cement wall and steel - bar door that locks automatically when shut.

Jade - coloured plunge pools in the Pool Suites run the length of the room flanked by palm trees and tropical greenery within high cement walls.

Many of the houses were located inside one - room cement buildings or tiny make - shift looking shacks with wooden slats for walls and either a rubber or palapa - leaf roof.

The town's streets are filled with lots of colourful, vibrant and interesting murals and street art located in random places along the sides of buildings, cement walls, and on houses.

A successful wall bounce strike towards a certain side of specific multi-tiered levels will send the opponent hurling through cement, metal, or any number of ungodly things in epic fashion into the next part of the stage as they take damage along the ride.

The original Gears of War cemented the cover shooter as a subgenre, now its sequels have to rattle its foundations by taking away the safety of sitting behind a low wall.

The local council, who had ordered him to remove cement rendering on the wall of his house, prevented him from doing so once the mural appeared.

The walls cost about 1/3 that of a house made completely from cement and are even stronger than bricks.

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.

And there are the usual heavy demands on one's interpretation of «art», as with the imagined architecture of piled planks, towered black boxes, and stacked bars of cement; boring interventions that wreak destruction on walls and floors; and the flurry of uncharming ephemera like a puddled black garbage bag and rags draped over sticks which inadvertently — given the current happening at the Metropolitan Museum - invoked punk.

Looking at the seamless poured - cement floor and gleaming white walls, it was obvious that we had different understandings of the word raw.