Sentences with phrase «rubble by»

Rolling Stone — How the World Failed Haiti — Janet Reitman — «A year and a half after the island was reduced to rubble by an earthquake, the world's unprecedented effort to rebuild it has turned into a disaster of good intentions.»

Among the exhibits is a multimedia piece by Chicago - based artist Theaster Gates called Martyr Construction, a huge installation of spray - painted fabric and rubble by German artist Katharina Grosse, and a series of larger - than - life paintings of upside - down human figures by Georg Baselitz, also based in Germany.

Far into the future, the Earth has been worn down to rubble by humanity, and resources have become incredibly scarce.

The rocky body — the largest yet to get a close flyby — seems to have been just large enough to avoid being reduced to a flying pile of rubble by eons of collisions with other asteroids.

It could also be used after an earthquake to locate people buried in rubble by seeking their iPods or phones.

But on 25 April, it was reduced to rubble by the magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake — even though many one - and two - story buildings escaped the shaking relatively unscathed.

Her five - year - old girl who survived was rescued from the rubble by officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA.

Not exact matches

One of the central moments in «Spider - Man: Homecoming» is when Peter Parker's nemesis Vulture (played by Michael Keaton), uses his alien - powered weaponry to drop a floor of a building on Parker, leaving him completely buried in rubble.

But they are required by the Quran to establish this global Islamic state on the rubble of every civilization, every constitution, every government.»

Rising out of the rubble in the aftermath of 911 where this country was brutally attacked by cowards, was this steel cross.

They can't even get building materials to replace the houses destroyed by bombs — those people live in rubble or move in with relatives, any rebuilding is from salvaged rubble.

Experience Mission has made an immediate commitment to help families in this region clear the rubble left by the earthquakes impact.

It must have been difficult for the disciples to conceive that Herod's great temple, one of the wonders of the world, would be torn down, stone by stone, until it was nothing but a heap of rubble.

Standing in a church that had been destroyed by ISIS, he found two pieces of metal from the rubble and fashioned a makeshift cross.

Whether it's Daniel's bizarre dream of the winged beast and a prince named Michael who «goes by the Book,» or Mark's «Little Apocalypse,» written after a generation of suffering and perhaps over the rubble of the temple, predictions of the end times and the second coming demand a soul - searching kind of honesty.

Cohen discusses the now - famous photograph of Omar Daqneesh — a heartbreaking image of a boy covered in rubble, victim of a bombing raid by (presumably) the Assad regime.

Syrians search for victims under the rubble of a destroyed building that attacked by Syrian government forces airstrikes, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria

And he understood, better than many churchmen but in harmony with the thinking of John Paul II, that the key to resolving the dangers posed by the nuclear deterrence system, in which the United States and the Soviet Union both had the capacity to «bounce the rubble,» was the collapse of the communist project and dramatic change in the governance of what was then the USSR.

If a crescent was found in the rubble, yes, by all means, put it in the museum, too.

If we were perhaps excessively underwhelmed from the beginning, we continue to be impressed by those who have a seemingly infinite capacity to see castles rising from the rubble.

Usually, when I see rubble, I'm amazed by the power of the storm.

By heating the massive stones of the sanctuary and then pouring cold water on them, the Romans reduced the whole place to rubble, thus punishing the Jews for rebelling against Roman authority.

Since then I have spend well - nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval.

But it is something more: something immediate and poignant in the embattled «little flocks» of the first century, known again in our day by millions in shattered and cut - off lives in cells, rubble, behind wire, and behind curtains.

Since then I have spent well - nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval.

Left all alone on this mysterious day, the «ghost train rumbled by» and the leaning chimney collapsed, burying Becky under a pile of rubble.

According to the evangelist, a high wind caused by a tornado reduced buildings around his revival tent to rubble but left his tent undamaged.

By late afternoonwe are climbing through the granite peaks of the Absaroka Mountains, approaching — if my $ 2 compass is accurate — a 10,400 - foot rubble heap that bearsthe dubious name Republic Pass.

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.

In proper season, somewhere in the grass or rubble, the visitor may come upon Harold (Sonny) Henderson, a genial 46 - year - old Scots - English - Polynesian whose eminence as a hunter is well established but is — as is the case with many active Hawaiians — rather obscured by peculiar distinctions in several sports.

On the lee slope of Mauna Kea, where the grasslands burnished by the sun are interspersed with brush and clumps of mamani trees, public hunting grounds stretch from 6,000 feet elevation up over the volcanic rubble that caps Mauna Kea at 13,800 feet.

I wanted to be able to speak to them and let them know that they have a magical opportunity hidden in the rubble they feel trapped by.

Peter Linebaugh, a historian currently residing in the region of the American Great Lakes, grew up amid the hopes and rubble of post-war London, was schooled by (among others) Anglicans in Karachi, Quakers in Swarthmore, and Cold Warriors in New York.

Remember the rubble of injustice that has been created by misinformed «transformation» after transformation within our now fragile justice system.

The firefighters and rescue workers first digging by hand and passing buckets of rubble were soon replaced by mechanical equipment as life was no longer to be sought or found on the site.

Paddy Ashdown's «Macbeth» moment Spurred by the Lib Dems» improved 1997 electoral performance, Paddy Ashdown recast John Major, Chris Patten and Tristan Garel - Jones as Macbeth's three witches, relishing their plotting against William Hague with the memorable put - down: «Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble; the Tory party's reduced to rubble.»

According to the Tiamiyu, «Investigation conducted by the Agency at scene of the incident revealed that an existing uncompleted bungalow under construction with sands and concrete block seen on the deck suddenly caved in with three people trapped under the rubbles.»

The two - year - old was identified as Bisoye while the mother whose body was also recovered from the rubble was identified by relatives as Basirat.

My suggestion that Corbyn stand down in favour of another candidate was driven by a desire to save his policies — which, as the polling shows, are very popular indeed — from being buried in the rubble of a terrible election defeat.

It is feared more bodies still lie under the rubble of buildings destroyed by the explosions, which targeted a crowded market and a hospital.

Some are rubble heaps held together only loosely by their own gravity.

They are focused on applications for autonomous vehicles, some of which already have similar laser - based systems for detecting objects around the car, but other uses could include seeing through foliage from aerial vehicles or giving rescue teams the ability to find people blocked from view by walls and rubble.

The edge of America's ice sheet — marked by a line of rubble called the terminal moraine — ran along Long Island.

Because the robot body changes shape in response to its surroundings, it can slip through narrow crevices to search for survivors in the rubble left by an earthquake or bombing, he said.

The coin dates to a little more than a decade before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD, and was found in rubble material outside the ruins of the 1st Century Jewish villas the team has been excavating.

By LEONARDO SEEBERWithin a few seconds of 3.45 am on 30 September 1993, Killari, a village on the north bank of the Tirna river in central India, along with scores of others, was reduced to rubble.

This can be done by sinking oil rigs (through the Rigs - to - Reefs program), scuttling ships (such as the USS Oriskany), or by deploying rubble, tires, or construction debris.

To help solve this conundrum, a team led by Richard Aronson of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama decided to sample ancient staghorn coral rubble that was deposited over the past centuries.

Their calculations indicate that flowing spring water is too feeble by a factor of 22 to move the existing bouldery rubble downstream and make room for more.

Nevertheless, they were taken by surprise when their secret garden turned into a field of rubble almost overnight.