Sentences with phrase «of collapsed buildings»

Add to that the ground was very hot, from the heat of the collapsed buildings.

Both terrified and excited, Beetle had waded through nests of shredded fabrics, dirty sweaters, blue jeans, and kids» blankets, all culled from the abandoned storefronts and dragged into the basement of one of the collapsed buildings on Main Street.

Inspecting the aftermath of earthquakes throughout the developing world, I've seen a lot of collapsed buildings that were made of unreinforced masonry.

It is a piece of the collapsed buildings.

Notable among the cases is the case against the Board of Trustees of the Synagogue Church Of All Nation, SCOAN, and the engineers involved in the construction of the collapsed building.

Led in evidence by Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the State's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Obafunwa, who is a Consultant Pathologist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), said the victims of the collapsed building died due to multiple injuries, traumatic asphyxia, severe blood loss, severe fracture and compression of the skull with the brain tissue, congested heart failure against the background of hypertension and accumulation of blood in the chest cavity.

Governor Ambode who commiserated with those who suffered loss and injury as a result of the building collapse said since the incident, the state government has ordered the immediate sealing of the construction site and cessation of further construction, co-ordinated emergency rescue of all injured victims and treatment at its hospitals, prosecution of owners of the collapsed building as well as dismissal of some government officials.

Speaking to journalists at the site of the collapsed building, the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Wasiu Anifowose, said Governor Ambode and his team were at the site to personally examine the level of damage and the determine how best to prevent a reoccurrence going forward.

The latest disaster movie takes a digital trip through a morbid funhouse of collapsing buildings, casually watching people die while ardently focusing on the few one - dimensional characters meant to matter.

The end of the Federation Day level sees you sliding down the inside of a collapsing building, shooting away at enemies while avoiding the debris and destruction in your path.

Culled from an unspecified collection, the two Morris Louis paintings, Beth Samach (1958) and Gamma (1960), play multiple roles: They are asked to represent the ideals and aspirations of a historical moment of great confidence and aspiration, and to model the falling motion of collapsing buildings in their blooming color drags.

Not exact matches

(See the recent collapse of «revolutionary» blood - testing firm Theranos, which turned out to be built exclusively on hype.)

Bangladeshi family members hold up portraits of missing relatives as they march demanding the wages of missing workers and the death sentence for the building owner, at the nine - storey building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka on May 14, 2013 (Photo: Munir Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty)

«We have so many casualties proliferating of women and men collapsing from burnout, being distracted, depleted and unfulfilled,» says Huffington, who is herself one of those casualties: She collapsed from exhaustion and broke her cheekbone as a result of the fall — an accident that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building HuffPo.

The 8 - story building that collapsed housed a number of garment factories, a shopping mall, and a bank.

I was playing with Magna - Tiles with my son one Sunday, and we had built this giant kind of castle complex, and it collapsed.

Well - known retailer Joe Fresh is among the brands under the spotlight as a result of Wednesday's building collapse in Bangladesh that killed at least 260 people.

The Huffington Post founder had collapsed of exhaustion and broken her cheekbone as a result of the fall — a collapse that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building the site, now one of the most widely - read in the U.S.

The site of the April 2013 nine - storey building collapse is seen in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh (Photo: Munir Uz Zaman / Getty)

Most of the 102 people died when the building where the fireworks were stored collapsed, Chandy told reporters at the temple complex.

While the concern over a major earthquake is a day - to - day affair for Californians, residents of West Hollywood might be a little more nervous than usual after the city has cited more than 800 buildings that could be at risk of damage or collapse and may need to be retrofitted.

A reporter surveys the scene of a building collapse following a reported 6.0 earthquake on August 24, 2014 in Napa, California.

The collapse poses a headache for Theresa May's government, which had employed Carillion to work on 450 projects including the building and maintenance of hospitals, schools, defence sites and a high - speed rail line.

The Rana Plaza building collapse follows a November fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory on the outskirts of Dhaka that killed 112 people, and it has compounded concerns about worker safety and low wages in Bangladesh.

Novo Banco, the bank that was built with the good assets of the collapsed Banco Espirito Santo, reported a net loss of 1.4 billion euros for 2017 — nearly doubling its loss registered in 2016.

Frantic rescue workers were digging through the rubble of the eight - storey Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30 km (20 miles) outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, which collapsed on Wednesday.

The death toll from a building collapse in Bangladesh has risen to 160 and could climb higher, police said on Thursday, with people trapped under the rubble of a complex that housed garment factories supplying retailers in Europe and North America.

The collapse of two high - profile deals in such a short time frame is a rarity for Buffett, who has spent decades building Berkshire into a sprawling conglomerate through shrewd takeovers.

His Loblaw grocery chain faced disgrace after Joe Fresh items were found in the rubble of Rana Plaza, a collapsed building in Bangladesh that housed garment manufacturers.

Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.

The collapse of the global economic - political paradigm that was fostered and nurtured by neo-classical economic theories built on childish abstracts which failed to embrace the physical and mathematical realities of existence defined by universal laws of matter and energy.

A firefighter looks at a church and a building that caught fire and collapsed in the center of Sao Paulo

Built on the timetable of a premier desperate to divert attention from her collapsing LNG plan, Site C will produce power we will not need at its completion date and will lose $ 800 million in its first four years of operation.

Dubbed Facebook's «collapse» of public trust, the double revelation that Cambridge Analytica, ostensibly a voter - profiling company, collected the data of 50 million Facebook accounts without user permission, and that thousands of third - party developers built apps on Facebook's platform to gather private information has spurred international outrage.

The powerful storm ripped roofs off houses, collapsed buildings and flooded hundreds of miles of coastline after cutting a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.

The powerful storm ripped roofs off houses, collapsed buildings and flooded hundreds of thousands of coastline after cutting a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.

There's an ongoing worry among Cubans that the fragile buildings in Havana will continue to collapse because of the damage left behind by the storm, CNN reported.

In Italy, the collapse of a building boom in Rome and Naples in 1893, and the resulting failure of one of Italy's largest banks, prompted the creation of the central bank, the Banca d'Italia.

Hardy called Weston's handling of the building collapse «enormously clever and apparently sincere.»

It's hard for a company in any of the three countries to know how to calculate the payoffs of sourcing car parts from the US or building a factory in Mexico if, in a just few years, access to those parts or that labor might become a lot more costly if NAFTA collapses and border taxes start soaring.

New technology building booms and subsequent collapses are, historically normal and common following the introduction of new and transformative technologies, and we have seen them in the US and British automobile industries, the late 20th century communications «tech wreck», the rise and contraction cell phone manufacturers, and the explosion of entry into US telecommunications post «deregulation» in the US, just to cite a few.

They do not collapse because the buildings that happen to surround them are churches.There are no specific explanations given to what actually caused the «malfunction» but it reeks of negligence either on the construction site or to the company that engineered it.

Intelligent critics of totalitarian ideologies (such as George Orwell in Animal Farm, Alexander Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago, or Eugene Kogon in The SS State) have traced the collapse of extremely violent states, such as the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, to the lies on which they were built.

A man has died after a Victorian church building collapsed east of Cardiff city centre on Tuesday afternoon, a senior firefighter has said.

Germany (1920 - 1940)-- collapsed economy — highly industrialized — politicians blame jews for the economic ills — gas six million of them in custom built ovens

Savar, Bangladesh (CNN)- Pope Francis, speaking at a Mass on Wednesday, made reference to the Bangladesh building collapse that killed upwards of 400 people in a sharp condemnation of worker exploitation and «slave labor.»

Our task is to work hard, master the arguments (scientific, ethical, philosophical, social), understand the history of how we arrived here, defy the temptation to give up through boredom, build a coherent movement of defiance, and thereby prepare if not ourselves, then at least the next generation, for the moment when the revolution collapses under the weight of its own delusions and contradictions.

The family were attending the christening of a baby girl at the Santiago Apostol church in Atzala, Puebla state when the building collapsed.

On Wednesday, the Pope Francis made reference to a building collapse in Bangladesh that killed upwards of 400 people in a sharp condemnation of worker exploitation and «slave labor.»

Let it collapse, this lumber room, get rid of it, shut all these shops and booths... And let us again serve God in simplicity, instead of treating him as a fool in magnificent buildings.