Sentences with phrase «once rubble»

However, once the rubble settles, one sees how rewarding the rocky journey was.

Not exact matches

Just as the iPhone educated one - time giants like Nokia and RIM to rubble, now Samsung has managed to wreck havoc on Apple's once invincible image.

Bruised and bloodied parishioners emerged from the rubble after the blast, which left splintered wood beams and twisted metal where the church once stood.

The walls were once 10 feet thick and twice as high, but nature and man have reduced them to heaps of dark, coralline rubble.

This means Kroenke will have to go with the Dope before this once great club can rise again from the rubble it has been reduced to by a clueless manager and an arrogant out of touch board.

«Officials are all unwilling to talk or disclose any information,» Carey reported from the once vibrant enclave, which has now been reduced to rubble like a war zone.

The team will identify and inventory objects and rubble, trying to work out how pieces of smashed structures, statues, and friezes once fit together.

Evidence that the sun was once part of a brood comes from the rubble leftover from the formation of the solar system.

Below us and extending to the misty horizon lies a desolate pit of gray - black rock and rubble where, 14 months ago, a heavily forested mountain once stood.

I was standing in the midst of the rubble of what I once thought was real and permanent.

As the once - stately Hogwarts is nearly reduced to dun rubble and Voldemort and his legion are advancing, it's seldom been clearer just how deeply British this story's roots are.

In Roland Emmerich's White House Down, there's no adorable canine to miraculously emerge from the rubble once the dust settles, but there's a puppy - doggish tour guide (Nicolas Wright) who, while walking visitors through the sacred residence of which he's an encyclopedic fanboy, turns and says, «Now here's the room that got blown up in Independence Day.»

Once the buildings collapse, however, World Trade Center becomes a long time in the dark with actors pinned beneath tons of faux - rubble and the standard guilt about things not said to their loved ones before the sky fell.

But the genuine terror makes for manufactured mush once the action shifts from outside the rubble and McLoughlin and Jimeno's families as they wait for news on their loved ones.

«Savages» is the epithet applied to the Iraqi freedom fighters that oppose their US occupiers in once - vibrant cities that are now reduced to rubble.

Once the complete city is turned into rubble the round is complete and the player gains access to the next round.

Los Angeles, once a great city is nothing but rubble and evidence of what life used to be like.

The strategy might work, but it's still going to leave us with a pile of rubble where the village once stood.

After the Twin Towers fell on 9/11, hundreds of talented canine teams were integral to search and rescue attempts, searching through 16 acres of rubble where the World Trade Center once stood, to find tragic remains, or those lucky enough still to be alive.

Once descended, simply take your landmark (often the mooring buoy) make your dive, and on the way back, slowly head toward shore while enjoying the shallows where you're likely to find pods of squid and long nose needle fish hovering just below the surface, or the yellow headed jaw fish hiding in the coral rubble.

It's up to you as the town's newest firefighter to save Paperville from burning to a crisp as you fight back the flames, save citizens trapped by the burning rubble, and deal with the populace as they struggle to come to terms with the terror that was ravaged their once idyllic town.

Once vibrant lands are now littered with dust, rubble, concrete, and debris.

The CELL Corporation has enclosed the entirety of the city within a Nanodome to contain and eradicate the Ceph, transforming the once bustling urban environment to a overgrown lush rubble filled jungle.

The German artist had smashed the white marble floor at the entrance — where Mussolini and Hitler once shook hands for the cameras — and called the resulting rubble art.

In its aftermath, the once organized communities and lives of the residents were recognizable only as piles of rubble distributed haphazardly during the chaos of the storm.

These prints bore no comparison with the large - scale and collective art projects Tonoshiki was involved in around the time we met, but looking back, though their form may have been different, there were commonalities in terms of the strength of the desire (anger) to once more forcibly «reverse» into reality rubble and waste materials that had been robbed of their function in real life.

This is just an aside about influence, but there's a real conversation going on between Carl Andre's 1966 Equivalent VIII, his once - notorious bricks, Richard Long's line of white lumps of chalk from 1984, and a 1966 work, a wall - bound cast of a patch of London wasteground, which itself includes stray bits of brick rubble, by the Boyle Family.

In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama said, «Greensburg... is being rebuilt by its residents as a global example of how clean energy can power an entire community — how it can bring jobs and businesses to a place where piles of bricks and rubble once lay.

All that remained of the four story building after the fire is so thoroughly burned to ashes and small bits of charred rubble that what little snowfall we've had this year covers the majority of the area where the building once stood.