Sentences with phrase «over the towers of»

The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter blaze over the Tower of The University of Texas at Austin campus on December 1, 2008.

The debate over the Tower of London's poppy sculpture hots up, as northern England gets its first Andy Warhol solo show — all in your favourite weekly art roundup

Not exact matches

We got our first purchase order from Tappan Zee Constructors in late 2013, and since then we've done over 220 individual purchase orders with them, ranging in value from $ 500 to $ 3 million for everything from small brackets, conduits, and fence posts to the under - bridge catwalks and tower ladders to a crane trestle used in the demolition of the existing Tappan Zee bridge.

It raised $ 4.4 billion in funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund over the course of several months; bought the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building for $ 850 million to serve as its new headquarters; is adding a second headquarters at the new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco; led a $ 32 million funding round in New York startup The Wing; and has bought several other startups, most recently spending $ 200 million on Meetup.

Steve Jobs reigning over Apple, Bill Gates towering over the giant that is Microsoft and Richard Branson stylized in his cape throughout the veins of Virgin — this kind of mythology and idealization of the single hero in business has spurred a new wave of entrepreneurs who call themselves «solopreneurs.»

Tower of Babble chronicles Stursberg's tumultuous CBC stint from 2004 to 2010, a stretch largely defined by the ongoing debate over what a public broadcaster is and should be.

If everything goes according to plan, Zappos will take over the old city hall — a slightly loopy paean to 1960s Modernism with a circular courtyard and an 11 - story tower that for some reason has no windows on one side — at the end of 2013.

The prospect of a nuclear attack towered over all other threats.

The imposing 630 - foot - tall concrete and stainless - steel structure towers over the St. Louis riverfront, and commemorates Thomas Jefferson and the role St. Louis played in the westward expansion of the United States.

Mueller is also scrutinizing Kusher over his involvement in the Trump Tower meeting; his role in the decision to fire former FBI director James Comey; his meeting with the head of a sanctioned Russian bank with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin; and his involvement in the campaign's data operation.

Those included a court challenge over how much of Wind Mobile was foreign - owned; struggles to negotiate tower - sharing agreements with Rogers, Bell and Telus (Rogers owns Canadian Business); and doubt about Wind's future when its biggest investor, Dutch carrier VimpelCom, revealed it was exploring «strategic alternatives» for its stake.

Demonstrators stand outside of the Li Fung tower in Hong Kong as they protest over what they say are unpaid wages owed to textile workers in Turkey by Li and Fung and garment brand Esprit.

ride that last year took over the building previously used by the park's Tower of Terror ride.

Instead of sulking, instead of backing out, Eiffel shrewdly arranged to pay for the remaining $ 1.3 million himself — in exchange for a 20 - year lease and control over some of the pavilion near the tower.

Comey's firing is all the more disturbing because it comes on the heels of Trump's firing of another law enforcement official whose demonstrated independence was a threat to Trump and his circle: Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who had jurisdiction over events happening in Manhattan, where Trump Tower happens to be relocated.

For 2017 as a whole, App Store revenue increased 35 percent over 2016, to a total of roughly $ 38.5 billion, according to information from the data insights firm Sensor Tower.

Dolly Lenz, a luxury real estate agent and founder of Dolly Lenz Real Estate in New York, who has sold many units in the Trump Tower over the years, concedes that the frenetic scene is a turnoff to some potential buyers.

Tizeti is going to expand its network of towers from its current 45 to an additional 55 over the next 9 months to complete its coverage of Nigeria at speeds of up to 10 mbps, unthrottled.

Residents see effects of oil's price plunge from the «reduced» banners over lingering home sale signs to the empty desks and floors in downtown office towers.

In the capital of San Juan, towering eucalyptus trees fell nearly every other block over a main road dotted with popular bars, restaurants, and coffee shops, some of which were damaged.

These are the salespeople who have little concept of quotas; they push and push until their numbers, placements, and billings are towering over the rest of your sales team.

On the day that Daniels canceled the deal, protesters gathered in front of Trump Tower in New York City to express outrage over week - old revelations that the Republican presidential nominee had once bragged about grabbing women by the crotch, news that was prompting a number of women to come forward with stories of alleged sexual misconduct by the candidate.

The largest waves fall under the aptly - named category of «phenomenal» and tower over 46 feet.

The first Regus centre in Angola is an ultra-modern office space set over the whole of the sixth floor of the Cuanza Sul Tower, an attractive, brand - new building in Talatona, a business district and a prime location 20 minutes from the airport and 30 minutes from downtown Luanda.

The piles of hurricane debris that lined US - 1 for months were finally cleared last month, eliminating 2.5 million cubic yards of garbage that towered over the only road connecting the Keys to the Florida mainland.

''... It needs to be noted that for over 50 years the Watchtower Society used the cross, taught that Jesus died on a cross and even included it on the cover of the Watch Tower:...»

As someone born in the early 50s, that read Lord of the Rings in my teens, I found that the Dark Tower series took LOTR place as a series I could read over and over and each time I find some Christian themes but also beautifully written passages that I simply want to stop and re-read again.

as far as the cross at the twin tower site, just place the religious symbol of all whom died there and we can call it fair, until then it is endorsing one religion over the others.

Three giants tower over their children; Tumbling rocks on an ancient river bed; Bright green moss connecting root and boulder; Branches reaching out in every direction to drink each drop of light; A spreading canopy over a pristine patch of forest.

You never once smacked one of those kids, the ones there on full scholarship with visions of patched sport coasts in the Ivory Tower, you never once icily mentioned that you were working full time, going into debt, commuting two hours to school, that you had three small babies at home, that you worked in a fast - paced and exhausting industry under tremendous pressure just to come home, kiss your kids for a brief moment, launching into that thesis until well past midnight, just to get up at 6 the next morning and do it all over again, relentlessly.

And they said, «Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.»

And that boy of mine, he steps closer, towers over me, pulls me into a long hug, and whispers it like a benediction.

Robert Topher is a bit over the top in his insistence about the flood, tower of babel, new covenant, etc, but is probably relatively harmless, except to his own children.

Note that they haven't toppled yet; they may right themselves, or like the Tower of Pisa, just lean over a bit.

And to do this let us begin by climbing up till we tower over the trees which now hide the forest from us; in other words let us forget for a moment the details of the economic crises, the political tensions, the class - struggles which block out our horizon, and let us climb high enough to gain an inclusive and impartial view of the whole process of hominization11 as it has advanced during the last fifty or sixty years.

As Johns sees it, such statements were not only unseemly in their haste — memos and family pictures from the World Trade Center towers were still drifting over Manhattan and we were ready to announce to the world what we would and would not do — but they grew out of an unattractive combination of national self - loathing and utopian pacifism.

I also feel it when I see people like the imperial swimming instructor at the YMCA — powerful people who delight in towering over some little twerp who is struggling and scared, and casting the terrible shadow of their just and perfect selves.

The owner of this particular Jenga set had written an instruction on each block in permanent black marker, and we had played a few rounds when one guy slid a wooden block from the Jenga tower and flipped it over to see what it said.

Here I am today, an older man talking to you about the secret of spiritual power in general, when all the time what I am really seeing in my imagination's eye is that young man I was years ago, shot all to pieces, done in and shattered in a nervous breakdown, foolishly undertaking too much work and doing it unwisely, all my hopes in ashes and life towering over me and saying, You are finished; you can not; you are done for.

Watching footage of Muslims dancing in the streets celebrating the towers falling and the deaths of over 3000 people, right here in this country, showed me what kind of people Muslims are.

The biblical analogy for today's Church is the Tower of Bable, a construction that aims at the heavens but that is impeded by a confusion over language.

The problem that towers over us is not the morality of recycling plastic or making better immigration policies, although I do wish we could reduce our dependence on non-biodegradable packaging, and I do hope we continue to search for reasonable solutions to immigration that respect both the dignity of persons and the rights and duties of sovereign nations.

Workers in Poland finished erecting the world's tallest statue of Jesus over the weekend, a 170 - foot (52 - meter) giant that towers over the countryside near Swiebodzin.

imagine bronze colour (not sure if actually made of bronze), a tower of torsos, arms and legs, clambering over one another to be the torso at the top.

But we do know that over time a bewildering plurality of human cultures has evolved, as the Tower of Babel myth symbolically describes.

At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.

Let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves, for fear we may be scattered over all the surface of the earth.»

Towering over the entire scene is Table Mountain, for the moment trailing a plume of silken vapor.

Waves were said to have crashed over Ireland's towering Cliffs of Moher in County Clare.

Duke University's reversal of today's plan to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from its historic chapel tower has reinvigorated a debate over shared worship space.