Sentences with phrase «than north walls»

It seems so obvious, that one would design south walls differently than north walls, but that isn't the way it's done.

Not exact matches

Edinburgh scholar Andrew Walls has argued that the shift of the numerical bulk of Christians from Europe and North America to Asia, Africa, Latin America and other areas outside the Northern Hemisphere has had more than demographic significance.

Less than a half hour away is the charming, historic treasure of Old Quebec, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the only North American city north of Mexico to remain fortified by wNorth American city north of Mexico to remain fortified by wnorth of Mexico to remain fortified by walls.

Despite more than a decade of gentrification, shifting demographics and a wall of glassy buildings that have gone up on either side of the north - south corridor, most of the passersby were black and Hispanic — ordinary workers, residents and shoppers, with a few obviously mentally ill or under the influence individuals tossed in.

Amy Harder of The Wall Street Journal reports that «Republicans are responding with an amendment from Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota» that quotes from a section of the State Department which states that «the proposed pipeline would produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions than an alternative mode of transportation, such as rail.

The volcano, in addition to being a beautiful and alien visual backdrop for a movie is also a monolithic wall, blocking their view of the rest of the world; Mexico and the United States, to the North, are more myth than reality.

There might be a reason to relocate the invasion North to the Wall, it being a much more dramatic location than the Kentish coastline, the decision to do so is more a matter of privileging dramatic effect over basic logic and common sense.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town's famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.

Khlong Rahan Rather than trying to climb the walls at Soneva Kiri, look left while cruising north on the same northern road and pull off when you see several sandy trails piercing into a large coconut grove.

Tens of thousands of slaves, many Christians kidnapped from European villages as far north as Iceland by Moroccan pirates, worked and died to construct more than 50 palaces, the 20 gates and the large city wall.

Steel truss - work beneath the long skylight overhead, the slot windows in the end walls and the illuminated «light boxes» the architects have attached to the Turbine Hall's north wall cleanse the enormous interior's factorylike, almost prisonlike air, rather than deny it.

However, North Carolina private loggers and land - owners interviewed for a Wall Street Journal investigative report last week admitted that trees more than 100 years old, including some from wetlands, does wind up in pellet plants.

Utilities have installed more than 60 million smart electric meters in North America in the past decade, the Wall Street Journal recently noted, adding that the challenge now is figuring out what to do with all the information the devices are generating.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

Nicknamed the «Rogue Recruiter» by the Wall Street Journal, he has personally negotiated more than $ 184 million in compensation as Managing Director of Perry — Martel International, one of North America's top recruiting and placement firms.