Sentences with phrase «statue standing»

More than 100 years ago, a new statue standing tall in New York Harbor gave our nation its greatest symbol of freedom.

You're walking around town and suddenly notice a funny statue standing at the square.

The «Fearless Girl» statue standing in defiant opposition to Wall Street's iconic «Charging Bull» might be moved to a different location in the Big Apple when its temporary permit expires early next month.

FILE PHOTO: A statue stands atop Grand Central Station in front of the MetLife building in New York, October 8, 2008.

Miss America's statue stands as a monolithic emblem of which many people a short time ago were immigrating to her land did then all view before coming to landfall.

Kali's statue stands naked astride the inanimate body of the Hindu deity Shiva, tongue stuck out with blood dripping from fang - like teeth.

The bishop's intercessory journey to the Emperor and Chrysostom's famous series of sermons on the statues stand out as an example of the priestly role in appeasing the anger of rulers.

Over time, so many deals were struck «at the Bull and Bear» where the gilded statues stood that regular patrons adopted the moniker as the bar's unofficial title.»

The signature bronze Bull & Bear statues stand behind the legendary bar as commanding reminders of the steakhouse's significance to city's financial sector and its rich history — ultimately serving as the location's namesake.

His statue stands solemnly on Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street.

Earthen walls formed 11 parallel corridors where statues stood in battle - ready rows.

This is a great pity, for whether he is delivering insights into the sacredness of the stone of the Temple of Artemis, or the astonishing fact that the Colossus of Rhodes was one of 20 000 bronze statues standing around the eastern Mediterranean, Romer has written a wonderful book.

A statue stands guard atop a tomb stone at the Villa Palmeras cemetery in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

He's only trying to borrow a guitar from the tomb of Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), a legendary singing star whose statue stands in the town square, emblazoned with his motto, «Seize your moment.»

Today, four commissioned statues stand to honor King Kamehameha I, Hawaii's first king.

Miguel, meanwhile, has been sneaking around learning to play a guitar he's refurbished, and his idol is the «greatest musician of all time,» Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), whose statue stands in the town square.

* For those who may be unfamiliar with the man who gave his name to Ireland's central thoroughfare and whose statue stands at its southern end, Daniel O'Connell was the leader of a movement seeking repeal of the Act of Union which bound Ireland to the United Kingdom.

Where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

Built between 1997 and 2008 in a relatively remote part of China's HenanProvince (a common site for Buddhist pilgrimages) the statue stands 420 feet tall (502 if you count the base, which Tilly doesn't).

There's a second, more formal dining area, with long table and ten comfortable armchairs, to the side of the soaring double - height reception hall in the main villa building — an elegant space that lends itself well to special events, and where tall tribal statues stand sentinel.

Below the soaring roof is a huge U-shaped couch set around a coffee table, while an ornate crystal chandelier adds an elegant decorative element and a small army of wooden statues stand in attendance.

This becomes apparent when you look at the now treeless landscape with the proud statues standing as if a sign from the past.

The GWK statue stands 150m tall when finished and is visible from several towns and resorts around the southern part of the island.

Created in conjunction with the IP Factory, this collector's only statue stands 30.5 cm tall and is made of high quality PVC.

The statue stands approximately 30 ″ / 76 cm from the base to the crest of Harley's pigtails; each statue includes three interchangeable faces right arms to accommodate for specific weapons - a baseball bat and her trademark Jack - in - the - Box bomb.

Nelson: not just the chap whose statue stands on a column in Trafalgar Square seething at pigeons.

Two warrior statues standing guard in an Amsterdam, The Netherlands bathroom.

Not exact matches

There is another statue over by the NYSE that «Fearless Girl» will have to compete with: George Washington, who stands outside the Federal Hall National Memorial looking down Broad Street.

From inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty he stood in awe, gazing out at the sea of skyscrapers, shining like metal and glass exclamation points, punctuating the urban skyline.

Once assembled, a BFR would stand about 15 % taller than the Statue of Liberty and be able to launch 100 people and 150 tons of cargo into orbit around Earth.

The nude — a statue actually — stands in an opulent room at the Boston Center for Adult Education, where Apstein, a wine expert who freelances for the Boston Globe and the Florida - based Wine News, teaches a class so popular that it has been featured in Bon Appetit magazine.

I'm truly blessed to be posting it from the country where Statue of Liberty stands.

I'm truly blessed to be posting it from a country where Statue of Liberty stands.

Private equity firm Apollo's party, hosted in a Greek restaurant near Central Park, featured «live statues»: humans standing completely still, painted to look like marble.

In 1884, when the Statue of Liberty first arrived in America, the pedestal it stands on today hadn't been built.

I've never had a car statue — for that matter, here in New York, I don't have a car, which pretty much moots the issue of how much inverted irony my life can stand.

Our craptacular factories of self - expression stand to Nietzsche's art of the self as the nudie statues arrayed outside The Seventh Veil stand to Michelangelo's David.

He was on his knees, praying to the huge statue of Loyola that was standing atop the sarcophagus.

Talking to us near the charred apse, where an altar now reduced to ashes once stood, the mild - mannered priest explained how the fire had destroyed the entire interior of the Church, with the exception of a single statue of St. Jude the Apostle — the patron saint of hopeless causes.

Images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (to which the Colombian government solemnly dedicates the nation every year) are abundant, and a large statue of Mary stands just outside the pay office of the mining company.

But our finest public statue, pound for pound, is Jean - Baptiste Houdon's life - sized George Washington, which stands in the rotunda of the Virginia Capitol in Richmond.

You don't just stand in front of Susini's statue, experiencing it as you would a painting.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

Here was Alyssa Rosenberg at the Washington Post claiming that the whole point of Wonder Woman is that she's a role model for prepubescent girls, a kind of «Fearless Girl» avant la statue: «[T] he movie... argues that it's... little girls all over the world who stand to gain if they can grow up free of the distorting influence of misogyny,» Rosenberg wrote, with a schoolmarm's didacticism.

A statue of the Archangel Gabriel stands on a 36 metre high Corithian Column in Budapest's Heroes» square.

So far I've posed some quotes from Barbara Brown Taylor, links to articles from around the Web, and a picture of me standing next to a statue of Jack Daniel.

Wilde's story tells of a beautiful and much - admired statue called The Happy Prince that stands «high above the city, on a tall column» and is «gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold.»

Goerdeler was an early opponent of Nazism; he was outspoken in his defiance of the Nazis from 1933 on, and he finally resigned when the Nazis destroyed a statue of Mendelssohn that stood in the main square of Leipzig.

«The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, featuring sporting events alongside ritual sacrifices honoring both Zeus (whose famous statue by Phidias stood in his temple at Olympia) and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia»

At the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 11th Street in Washington, D.C., a wandering tourist will find himself standing beneath the gaze of a statue of Edmund Burke, the British parliamentarian and political thinker, who never once set foot on these shores.