Sentences with phrase «other buildings collapse»

The third building of course having had one of the other buildings collapse in part onto it and then being on fire for hours before it finally collapsed.

Not exact matches

There is a greater irony here in viewing these beams as a sign — In the construction of the WTC's, along with thousands of other buildings, beams are joined just like the one in the picture... so really there were thousands of cross-sections holding up the WTC's... yet they still collapsed.

What complicates the matter further is that each spiritual belief is built upon a whole framework of other spiritual beliefs, so that if one of them begins to collapse, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

The seat can be forward facing or rear facing, the baby sits very high up compared to other strollers, it has a huge sunshade flap that's easy to pop down, it has a built in diaper bag / storage, and it is pretty easy to collapse to fit into the trunk.

While other right - wing leaders either deserted the cause or joined the left to profit from its structural advantage (which cleverly used Franco's regime to portray the right as repressive and intrinsically antidemocratic) and Suárez «centre party» was collapsing, Fraga's solitary work from 1977 to 1989 to build a united center - right party recalls Tennyson's final line in Ulysses» monologue: «to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield».

But there is persistent concern about the quality of some of the construction and this is because, local officials sometimes take bribes and allow construction companies to build things below standard and so we have a situation in the Sichuan province where the earthquake occurred, where schools were collapsing and collapsed at a much greater rate than other government buildings and the suspicion is of course that local officials have taken bribes and allowed the schools to be built this way.

As the seams smoulder away, the ground above them becomes prone to collapse — taking with them any houses, roads or other infrastructure built on the surface.

That suggests an expansion of the network of lead pipes that brought water to individual buildings — but only until the 5th century C.E., when economic collapse and other troubles put the region's aqueduct out of commission.

On the other hand, World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) collapsed even though it was not hit by aircraft.

Some buildings were reduced to rubble; others collapsed into pancakelike stacks.

Professor Frank proposes that civilisations might in their collapse trigger the conditions needed for oil, gas and other natural reserves to be built up.

Ryan and Roverts believe that some or many of the other American scientists must have: (1) foresaken their search for the truth, (2) knowingly espoused false conclusions, or (3) remained silent about the scientific and engineering evidence supporting demolition as the true cause for the collapse of the 3 buildings on 9/11.

We learn that The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wan na Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too collapsed shortly after it was built, killing Derek's baby - mama Matilda and disfiguring Hansel.

On the other is an older, Communist Party member who has built her life around lofty ideals, which have slowly crumbled, collapsed and crushed all she believed in.

The UN's headquarters in Port - au - Prince, along with other buildings hosting the world body, have collapsed, leaving some 150 staff members unaccounted for.

Bridges collapse, tankers explode, buildings crash to the ground - the aim is to find the best driving line through the carnage and hope the other racers crash and burn.

The maps also look gorgeous on the Xbox One and PC, utilizing the backdrop to create an battlefield within a battlefield — ships will be firing on each other as you fight on the ground, guns will be keeping the wildlife at bay while you fight to gain control of an outpost, or building will be collapsing as the battle rages around you.

The other buildings in the compound had collapsed.

Some buildings collapsed, while other immediately adjacent ones seem to be ok.

I think Elizabth Tjader and a few others above raise some good points, mainly that in a huge earthquake like this 7.9 magnitude tremblor in a mountainous region, even with the best solid construction in the world, some buildings are going to crack or tip over or collapse.

~ ~ Update, 12:24 p.m. It will be interesting to check whether building collapses and other quake damage match the projections mapped in a 2010 paper in the Journal of Geographic Information Systems: «Urban Vulnerabilities in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Visualizations of Human / Hazard Interactions,» by Keshav Bhattarai and Dennis Conway.

In one case, a poorly constructed new addition appears to be the cause of collapse; in other cases, unexpectedly strong ground shaking contributed to the problem; and in most cases, the building code was not sufficiently enforced.

Japan is prone to major earthquakes and buildings and other structures are designed accordingly, as was well demonstrated, they had done very well in this regard with few major building collapses.

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An injury resulting in a permanent inability to return to work can result from any number of accidents at work including a fall from a building or roof, the collapse of a trench, a motor vehicle accident, a heavy equipment mishap, or any other dangerous workplace exposure.

The DAO is a project built on ethereum that, prior to its collapse, had raised more than $ 150m worth of the cryptocurrency ether in a bid to create a smart contract - based funding vehicle for other initiatives using the ethereum platform.

«Built for a post-trust world, Bitreserve's real - time transparency system eliminates the opportunities for fraud and destructive risk - taking that have caused the collapse of banks and other financial institutions throughout history,» the startup's website reads.

However, most of them let this dream collapse, while others build their dreams on the foundation of their qualifications they acquire through learning and practicing the finesse of this profession.

About 15 million square feet of that was buried in the World Trade Center rubble; the rest was destroyed when other buildings, including the smaller buildings that make up the World Trade Center complex, either collapsed or were rendered unusable.