Sentences with phrase «twin towers in»

[3] Sixteen percent said that it was either very likely or somewhat likely that «the collapse of the twin towers in New York was aided by explosives secretly planted in the two buildings.»

But given Rist's attention to the twin towers in her 2004 outing for the gallery (at the time, she described the show, titled «Herbstzeitlose,» as embodying a kind of offering to a New York that still felt to her on its knees), it's hard not to think of the events of 2001 as forming a kind of backdrop here as well.

The 620 - room hotel occupies twin towers in the heart of the city's commercial, shopping and entertainment district with rooms and suites that range from 42 to an impressive 480 sqm.

After the 9/11 terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York, search and rescue dogs were sent in to find trapped victims.

This true story recounts the daring feat of a spirited young Frenchman who walked a tightrope between the World Trade Center twin towers in 1974.

That set the stage for a strange alliance between Texas and Massachusetts in the months following the fall of the twin towers in 2001.

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high - wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, «the artistic crime of the century.»

In addition, the 2009 Oscars gave a thoroughly welcome prize to Man On Wire, the extraordinary British documentary about Philippe Petit, the man who wire - walked New York's twin towers in 1974.

Analyses of airliner impacts became mandatory after terrorists deliberately crashed two aircraft into the World Trade Center twin towers in New York in 2001.

Hilary Benn, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, added: «I don't agree with [Stop the War's] analysis at all and I think we should just all remember the 16 or so British citizens who lost their lives in the attack on the twin towers in New York on the 11th of September 2001.

Not exact matches

The building is rising at the northwest corner of the site where the twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

HOW is that Gods will that some nut jobs that beileve in Allah flew some planes into the pentagon and the twin towers.

I guess we ought to be grateful that the great religious wars in Europe are behind us, and we only have these relatively minor problems to deal with (excluding of course the attack by Muslim extremists on the twin towers).

i need to add something to my comment i really feel bad for what happen to all those people who suffered and perished in the twin towers and i hope all of them are in heaven, and i pray for their familes.

Just use common sense and read history of all religions and you see its just wishful thinking that there is a caring god who will help you.If there was no religion the twin towers would be standing and there would be peace in the world.

I'd occasionally lived on the streets, smoked butts I'd found in the gutters and begged for change in the Hoboken, New Jersey, train station and in the shadows of the twin towers.

If Jihad is a struggle to worship God, when did Americans ever stop Osama Bin Laden and his buddies from worshipping God in the their caves, half way across the world, when they decided to send planes through the twin towers on 9/11?

The group that blew up the twin towers are MOST LIKELY not going to have any influence in this mosque.

It is not simply a few Palestinian teenagers who danced in joy as they watched the hijacked aircraft fly into the twin towers.

That's why the twin towers came crumbling down, the pentagon got hit and another plane crashed in PA..

I mean Bush had the twin towers happen on his watch, but that's nothing compared to all the successful attacks on American soil while Obama's been in office.

The failure begins with the memorial's most important symbolic component, the gigantic one - acre pools in the footprints of the obliterated twin towers.

I have freinds who died in the twin towers, they were muslim in point of fact, each group has it's own symbolism and each has a right to be represented in the USA.

In this setting, the World Trade Center — notorious for its sterile, meretricious twin towers and desolate, wind - ravaged plaza raised above the surrounding streets — epitomized the post-war breakdown of American architecture.

Why not cremate him?????? Americans as well as Muslims died by fire on 9/11 in the twin towers!!!!! His body should have been cremated first — THEN buried at sea.

In my personal opinion, the World Trade Center twin towers were brought down by controlled demolition and the Pentagon was struck by a cruise misslie of some kind.

Don't you think that the folks in the twin towers prayed to God to help them?

«The twin towers defined our skyline and our neighborhood and were part of our daily lives,» Rauf said in his Council of Foreign Relations speech.

Tell that to the 6,000 who died in the twin towers.

... It took how many years to complete the twin towers back in the 70s?

This week they were missing one of their twin towers — Matt Wolk — which certainly could have made a difference in a tight game.

They're just so versatile in how they can score, and where you can place them that there's no real precedent (the twin towers line - ups mentioned in the NY Times article came from a completely different era).

Yep the final nail in that stupid twin tower scheme.

I know the facilities underneath the stadium were tired by the time the wrecking ball moved in, but I can not help but believe that a massive mistake was made in not incorporating the twin towers into the new design.

Playing at Wembley, whether it be the famous twin towers of old or the futuristic arch of the new, is what all players and fans in this country dream about.

This video framegrab from the HBO documentary «In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01» shows New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani holding a dust mask as he moves along a street near the World Trade Center soon after the twin towers were attacked by terrorists Sept. 11, 2001.

It also bankrolls the treatment for Ground Zero workers, volunteers and residents who became ill from breathing in twin tower toxins.

Cedar & Washington Associates sought to recoup costs associated with cleaning up asbestos, fiberglass and other particles during the renovation of a 12 - story apartment building near the site in lower Manhattan where the twin towers were destroyed.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a two - year, $ 16 million study of the twin - tower collapse that will address three pressing questions: whether current testing standards and building codes are adequate to resist catastrophic fires; whether building codes sufficiently take into account what engineers call progressive collapse, the chain reaction that leads to extremely rapid collapse (in the case of the World Trade Center towers, about 10 seconds); and how existing buildings can be made less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

The majority of the casualties worked in the twin towers — more than 1,400 in the north tower and more than 600 in the south.

The entire daytime population of the World Trade Center complex was approximately 58,000, but because the attacks occurred in the early morning, it was likely the number of occupants in the twin towers was well below that number.

The digitally reconstructed twin towers also deserve a credit, performing as a character in their own right.

The raconteur is Philippe Petit, ably performed by Joseph Gordon - Levitt, and he, um, raconts his tale from a jaunty perch atop the Statue of Liberty, the still - standing twin towers gleaming in the distance.

But, more significantly, The Walk is a movie built around a final sequence in which the French acrobat Philippe Petit walks a wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York.

Petit, in his 2002 book To Reach the Clouds that served as source material for the film, wrote: «When the towers again twin - tickle the clouds, I offer to walk again, to be the expression of the builders» collective voice.

Nor does it adequately convey the wire - walking expertise that Petit had developed in the years leading up to his twin towers walk.

It's Annie who points out a news story about the magnificent twin towers being constructed in the United States (it's a story in the same paper in which his Notre Dame walk is the front page news story).

All of this is related by Gordon - Levitt by way of winsome, boldly colorful flashbacks, while he narrates the events from atop the Statue of Liberty, with the twin towers shining behind him in picture - postcard, backlit perfection.

The second act of the film finds Petit and his allies casing the twin towers, making sure that they know everything about the tower that's still under construction — the workers» schedules, which areas give access to staircases, which elevators are best to use... Essentially, The Walk becomes a heist flick in the middle — and like all good heist flicks, everything goes like clockwork until it doesn't.

The film stars Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Petit, who in 1974 walked back and forth across a cable strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.