Sentences with phrase «where rubble»

These sites also don't hold water very well — they were engineered to drain into valley fills, the terraced slopes where rubble from mountaintop removal is dumped.
The robot has potential for use in disaster zones, said MIT engineer Sampriti Bhattacharyya, where rubble littering the ground can make it difficult for rescue robots to walk.
The collision sent debris from both worlds hurling into orbit, where the rubble eventually mingled and combined to form the moon.

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In the aftermath of the attack, he returned to the firehouse where he'd worked in Little Italy and spent several days helping search through the rubble for survivors.
Rising out of the rubble in the aftermath of 911 where this country was brutally attacked by cowards, was this steel cross.
The cross was found in the rubble so should be in the museum where it is.
Juan Tanamo... It's in the MUSEUM, where it belongs, as it was found in the rubble.
Bruised and bloodied parishioners emerged from the rubble after the blast, which left splintered wood beams and twisted metal where the church once stood.
This past winter, for example, while picking through rubble on the same small cay where one metal detector supposedly discovered another, a wreck hunter named Sonny Clayton and I found part of an old boiler, a bottle of French sun lotion, the heating element from an electric toaster and five beach sandals — none matching.
«Where I'd like to be right now is up there digging up the rubble.
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.
Developments in post war - Angola and post-Apartheid South Africa, where a rejuvenating capitalist ideology rose out of the rubble of the former and the eventual ideological shifts of icons of the Apartheid struggle in the latter, contributed further to Adom - Otchere's now inevitable ideological shift.
He will find that the new world he promised on that bright morning in the rose garden looks less Elysian and more Huxley: a nightmare landscape where betrayed citizens clamber through the rubble to throw rocks at him.
When Hickey and I visited rubble - strewn backyards where crews remade Woods Creek to prevent future flooding, he noted that property owners probably couldn't afford to take care of the mess.
That's where Finkelstein found the remains of an ashlar palace, so - called because the stones are regular, beveled and finely cut as opposed to the more usual irregular «rubble» used to make buildings of the time.
At both camps, the teams have found a startling array of everyday items and personal keepsakes, as well as the rubble of the gas chambers where unsuspecting victims met their end.
You want to extend people's views 40 to 100 feet into the depths of the rubble, where you could find trapped survivors.
Below us and extending to the misty horizon lies a desolate pit of gray - black rock and rubble where, 14 months ago, a heavily forested mountain once stood.
I don't think there are many of us that look back at the rubble of past relationships or bad decisions and don't see a range of crossroads, where we simply told that little voice to shut it down because of what felt good in the moment.
So is the low - key acting of Hanks and Sizemore in the scene they share at a rubbled - out church (both are simple and unaffected), though Sizemore oversells the speech towards the end where he spells out the title.
His legs where pinned under falling building rubble and that caused him to lose the legs.
Continuing on his appointed rounds, the insurance man's next stop is the rubble left behind by a lethal fire that destroyed the home of a woman (Ellen Burstyn) who is grief - stricken over the total loss of everything she's known in the home where she has lived for 30 years.
The box, a virtual reality viewer that turned my iPhone into an immersive TV, let me watch Oleg play among the rubble of his village, follow Hana through cucumber fields as she and her cousins worked as day pickers, and ride in Chuol's narrow canoe as he navigated swamps to an secluded island where his grandmother and he have been hiding.
A few little pieces of rubble are still there where my grandparents lived.
What he finds instead is a larger story of corruption and intrigue reaching deep into the heart of the occupation and a city not only physically but morally devastated, where children scavenge for food in the rubble, sex can be had for a cigarette, and the black market is the only means of survival.
He wanders out to the Moon (like you do) and is surprised to be standing in the rubble of the Blue Area of the Moon, where the dramatic end to the Dark Phoenix Saga took place.
The strategy might work, but it's still going to leave us with a pile of rubble where the village once stood.
You've got to pick through the rubble and find value where others aren't seeing it.
This facility, where rescued dogs will learn to be rescuers, will be the first - of - its - kind in America and will provide a training ground for search and rescue teams throughout the nation to work with their canines in an environment that simulates real disaster conditions such as a train wreck, an earthquake zone and a rubble pile.
After the Twin Towers fell on 9/11, hundreds of talented canine teams were integral to search and rescue attempts, searching through 16 acres of rubble where the World Trade Center once stood, to find tragic remains, or those lucky enough still to be alive.
The canines spend, on average, nine months in training at SDF's facility in Santa Paula, California, where a 10,000 - square - foot rubble pile and a replica train wreck are among the props used to get the dogs ready to work.
This rubble was transported back to a facility where it was crushed and tumbled to the correct size and shape (round).
Along the way, on a road that varies from a poor rubble road to an excellent paved road at Gallon Jug, you'll pass a number of villages, some farms, the Mennonite settlement of Blue Creek (where you can also take spend time as a hard - working, paying volunteer at a major Maya archeological site) and plenty of jungle.
Much of this dive site is a wall dive although there is a 20m deep ledge where white tip reef sharks rest on the rubble bottom allowing divers to get very close for photos.
While large coral heads are sparse here in shallow water, there is a sandy bottom, where many lively yellowhead jawfish poke their heads out of holes in the coral rubble.
Once descended, simply take your landmark (often the mooring buoy) make your dive, and on the way back, slowly head toward shore while enjoying the shallows where you're likely to find pods of squid and long nose needle fish hovering just below the surface, or the yellow headed jaw fish hiding in the coral rubble.
That's why I felt they replaced Shepard, to get away from the old trilogy but seriously with the way it ended and that 5 second clip in the secret ending where you see Shepards body in rubble gasp for air they could have done something.
They're about transplanting fantasy or shooter tropes into worlds where no one has bothered to clean up the rubble.
Fortunately, a few contests are enjoyable, such as the race across a pile of debris, where each player's movements alter the stack of rubble in unpredictable ways.
Go to the part at the beginning where you double jump over the rubble blocking the way ahead.
The work consists of 73 tons of steel reinforcement that Ai Weiwei found crumpled up among the rubble after the earthquake in Sichuan, and then had transported to his workshop in Beijing, where assistants have meticulously hammered the bars straight again.
The German artist had smashed the white marble floor at the entrance — where Mussolini and Hitler once shook hands for the cameras — and called the resulting rubble art.
Where The Fire Started is full of works that are visceral and haunting, painted with such an evocative style that they feel like they were one of the few artifacts recovered from the rubble.
In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama said, «Greensburg... is being rebuilt by its residents as a global example of how clean energy can power an entire community — how it can bring jobs and businesses to a place where piles of bricks and rubble once lay.
Often these robots are built to go where man can not or at least to complete jobs that a human would have a much tougher time doing, like diving to deep ocean trenches or scurrying amid rubble after a natural disaster looking for people in need of help.
All that remained of the four story building after the fire is so thoroughly burned to ashes and small bits of charred rubble that what little snowfall we've had this year covers the majority of the area where the building once stood.
The storied arena, where the Cowboys played for 38 seasons and won 213 of 313 games, was reduced to rubble, with the exception of three pillars, which leaned but didn't quite topple.
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