Sentences with phrase «took bulldozers»

Only occasionally do fighters destroy pre - Islamic material for the cameras: In the first months of 2015, ISIL militants overran the Mosul Museum, smashing many of the collection's artifacts, and took bulldozers and sledgehammers to Iraq's fabled first millennium B.C. cities of Nineveh, Nimrud and Hatra, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Instead, his prior decisions suggest he's likely to take a bulldozer to the remaining anti-corruption laws we have left.

A conservative government «has just taken the bulldozer to one of its ideological cornerstones; that is, support for those who take responsibility and work hard to progress themselves and their family,» says Suzanne Plater, Course Coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Health Promotion, University of Sydney.

Not exact matches

The worker who drove the bulldozer, clearing the way for bodies to be taken out, was also wounded and has since quit, severely affecting the team's capabilities.

Unlike the work of bulldozers, which Berry calls «a powerful generalizer» that works against the impulse «to take care of things, to pay attention to the details,» «good work is always modestly scaled, for it can not ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known.

Roberts can take credit for this one - liner: «Cuomo is like Spitzer [the self - proclaimed «bulldozer»] on steroids.»

After the dam was built, it took eight years to build the channels for irrigation — because the flood plain was too wet for bulldozers.

A right whale eats like a bulldozer: opens that great mouth and takes in tons of water.

I'm very interested in how Dr. Perlmutter's research can enhance my understanding of what constitutes an optimal human diet, but it will take an army of bulldozers to convince me I really need milk, eggs, or meat to complete my transformation.

Stutts may be a bulldozer, running over everything and everyone in his path, and Beatriz may seem like a «Star Trek» «empath,» all feelings and hurt — but White and the players take care to never let them drift into caricature.

Like an out - of - control bulldozer, the heavy focus on accountability is now taking down other important reform initiatives.

If you're feeling particularly cheeky, you can take a straight line through the esses, ramming full blast over the scalloped ridges like a bulldozer atop a sand castle.

(So obsessive, in fact, that if the surfaces are not perfectly smooth or if the colors become muddy, Chartier takes the rejected panels to a dump and watches while the bulldozer's treads crush them, an exercise just crying out for a performance video.)

Confrontation between villagers (led by a group of women) and private security forces took place in a day full of dramatic episodes: from villagers resisting bulldozers and removing barb - wire fences with tractors, to a tragicomical message from the local authorities telling villagers to «keep the dead trees until we figure out what to do next».

(TNS)-- Amid the California rumble of bulldozers and buzz of traffic, a 394 - unit apartment complex partly funded by Facebook is taking form here, with perks such as a bike repair shop, pet spa and sports pub designed to attract tech workers.