Sentences with phrase «with collapsed buildings»

Six decades ago, Romanians were promised economic prosperity as their country was industrialized, but in most cases, they were left with collapsed buildings, poisoned soils and disoriented communities

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When a young woman collapsed on the lawn outside Jennifer Lawrence's apartment building, the actress stayed with her until paramedics arrived, according to the LA Times.
I was playing with Magna - Tiles with my son one Sunday, and we had built this giant kind of castle complex, and it collapsed.
Soon after the collapse, Canada's Loblaw came forward toconfirm a connection with the building.
Novo Banco, the bank that was built with the good assets of the collapsed Banco Espirito Santo, reported a net loss of 1.4 billion euros for 2017 — nearly doubling its loss registered in 2016.
The death toll from a building collapse in Bangladesh has risen to 160 and could climb higher, police said on Thursday, with people trapped under the rubble of a complex that housed garment factories supplying retailers in Europe and North America.
Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.
Many exchanges that have suffered — including Mt. Gox, which experienced the most notorious exchange collapse — were built on unstable platforms with little security, due to their having been created when bitcoin trading was small and nascent.
There is a greater irony here in viewing these beams as a sign — In the construction of the WTC's, along with thousands of other buildings, beams are joined just like the one in the picture... so really there were thousands of cross-sections holding up the WTC's... yet they still collapsed.
We are basically disputing over a piece of toast that has the crude image of Jesus burnt into it but we go it for free on ebay — the cross by no way is perfect and its shape is bound to happen based on the nature of how really tall building collapse and their architecture with many perpendicular angles.
They built it with too steep an angle and it would have collapsed so they had to step it.
The sermon concludes with the foolish person who builds his house without foundations, and it collapses.
Vertonghen's partnership with compatriot Toby Alderweireld proved to be crucial to Tottenham's Premier League title challenge last term, which was built on a defence that was the best in the division prior to a final day collapse at Newcastle.
When I think of these, the ones that come to mind are the Bugaboo and Orbit or cutting edge ones like the 4moms Origami, which has the built - in robotic technology and allows the stroller to collapse and expand with the twist of a button (see video here).
But deftly and sure - footed, the Buhari administration is building a new foundation for the economy, erecting an edifice that will stand the test of time, not a bubble that collapses with just a pinprick, not a will - o - the - wisp that vanishes in the midday sun.
With the increased trust of consumers in building societies and credit unions after the banking collapse, it seems there is a public appetite for the co-operative alternative and a belief that it is possible to combine social justice and economic efficiency within the firm.
In a Monday interview with North Country Public Radio, Funiciello said he's a «questioner» of the circumstances that led to collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11, and that «in no way satisfied with the official story that we've been told over and over again.»
Both factors were crucial in building a majority — the Conservatives suffered virtually no net loss to Labour, with 10 losses offset by eight gains, and gained 26 seats as their former coalition partners collapsed.
Also at noon, lawmakers and firefighters hold a news conference pushing for legislation dealing with building collapses, Albertson Fire Company, 100 IU Willets Rd., Albertson.
The real terrorists, which I prefer to label «greedy f# * ks, are the corporations big enough to take their operations to third world companies where they can get away with paying people 40 cents a day, can evade all responsibility for shoddy buildings collapsing and killing / injuring a thousand people, where workers have to handle toxic chemicals without any protection (or lose their jobs) etc etc etc..
Led in evidence by Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the State's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Obafunwa, who is a Consultant Pathologist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), said the victims of the collapsed building died due to multiple injuries, traumatic asphyxia, severe blood loss, severe fracture and compression of the skull with the brain tissue, congested heart failure against the background of hypertension and accumulation of blood in the chest cavity.
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A sign posted on the door by the DOB stated that the building was shut down for «failure to maintain» the building, with defects including structural cracks throughout the building, sagging floors and roof, leaning parapets, exposed electrical wiring, a defective chimney and collapsing concrete.
The backyard of one home is filed with debris from another building that collapsed long ago.
Governor Ambode who commiserated with those who suffered loss and injury as a result of the building collapse said since the incident, the state government has ordered the immediate sealing of the construction site and cessation of further construction, co-ordinated emergency rescue of all injured victims and treatment at its hospitals, prosecution of owners of the collapsed building as well as dismissal of some government officials.
When a building collapse closed a section of Interstate 81 in downtown Syracuse, Miner faced off with then - Gov.
As the seams smoulder away, the ground above them becomes prone to collapse — taking with them any houses, roads or other infrastructure built on the surface.
And the first thing that begins to happen is carbon dioxide builds up inside the body, and with it there is a rise in acidity; that acidity rise contributes to cellular membranes decaying and then collapsing and then digestive enzymes that were already always present in the cells begin to slosh around to the body and [it] begins a state of what's called self digestion, so the body begins to liquefy inside rather literally.
For example, an aerial robot equipped with a radiation detector, 3D camera system, and temperature and humidity sensors could inspect something like the Fukushima nuclear reactors, where the radiation level is too high for humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildings.
If a strong earthquake causes the ground to shake with a frequency that matches a building's pitch, the shaking will be amplified within the building, and the structure will likely collapse.
Damage great in substantial buildings, with partial collapse.
Damage slight in specially designed structures; considerable damage in ordinary substantial buildings with partial collapse.
With roughly 35 million people living in the permafrost zone, the thawing landscape threatens communities by putting roads and buildings at risk of collapse.
► A gorilla grows quickly to about 20 feet, roaring into the camera and beating his chest until sanctuary staff place him in a cage; he becomes angry and breaks out, smashing walls, doors, windows and equipment, jumps over a building and into the street, smashing an SUV with his fists, and a man points a tranquilizer rifle but does not shoot; police cars cut the animal off as a helicopter with armed men flies by and they shoot the gorilla with large tranquilizer darts (the gorilla collapses, unconscious).
Built around the usual sluggish grammar of instrumental hiphop, the tracks seems at times to collapse in on themselves, swollen with lugubrious 1970s jazz funk keyboards, strategically aimless organ vamps and miscellaneous concrete samples.
It appears that the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good collapsed due to being constructed with the same materials that were used to build its scale model, killing Derek's wife (Christine Taylor) and disfiguring Hansel.
Describing a scene in which Emma is sitting enjoying a meal at the top of a skyscraper when the earthquake hits, director Brad Peyton says, «We literally travel with Emma, with no cuts, through a collapsing building.
Once the buildings collapse, however, World Trade Center becomes a long time in the dark with actors pinned beneath tons of faux - rubble and the standard guilt about things not said to their loved ones before the sky fell.
He has to be — the house of cards he's built collapses if any of the extralegal organizations he's working with gets sick of him — and Cruise plays Seal as breezy with just a hint of desperation.
But Luke Scott's strength with pacing, building an early foundation of uneasiness, starts to collapse as the script resorts to illogical actions in service of the plot.
The first major disaster sequence (which starts, I kid you not, with a character saying, «It feels like something's coming between us,» right before an abyss in the ground separates them) has the dysfunctional family dodging cars, falling interstates, and collapsing buildings, and that's before they get in a plane.
It followed two schools in his constituency, Calder High and Todmorden High, both missing out on funding under phase two if the Priority School Building Programme earlier this year — despite problems with gas leaks, sewer collapses and asbestos.
They saw workers dressed in suits covered with soot flee in terror as their office buildings collapsed around them — and they learned that the world is not a safe place.
From a fire safety point of view, many schools that were due for renewal, whose buildings are of the «CLASP» type or similar, are likely to have inherent problems associated with lack of fire stopping or poor fire separation between compartments and voids through which fire can rapidly and unknowingly spread, all of which have in the past led to rapid and sudden collapse of structure in a fire.
The partnership launches with a 30 - second spot showing Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne, driving a Jeep Renegade toward a catastrophic building collapse with Jeremy Irons (who plays Wayne's butler, Alfred Pennyworth, in the new film) providing voice - over narration.
Like most great «translit» fiction — David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (2014), Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (2011), and Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker (2012)-- Pears» genre - bending, time - collapsing tour - de-force dazzles us with world building, but, beyond that, it reminds us that the people in those worlds survive by their stories and by the way those stories reverberate backward and forward, achieving, if only now and again, the perfect harmony we all crave.
My attempt to restore this weekly feature on my blog was thwarted a few months into the year by a series of challenging, distressing, exhilarating, and generally overwhelming events — from editing a new speculative fiction anthology to the death of my mother - in - law, from a six - week home renovation to a partial roof collapse at my place of employment that caused 100 - hour work weeks, from caring for a sick bunny (he's better now, thankfully) to building a new website for one of the small - press publishers I work with.
Microsoft made a big deal about the TouchCover with its built in keyboard, and the Surface's kickstand that collapses flush away.
Consider how you'd feel with property in perfect condition remaining in the building as it collapses in a long instant.
Presuming that, management should now place an increasing emphasis on capital allocation: i) Surplus cash continues to build (the company has minimal debt), and ii) unless we see a dramatic turn - around, the stagnant revenue & collapsing margins of the Electronic division (Grosvenor Technology) are worth more sold off, with the proceeds returned to shareholders (or reinvested in Asset Protection).
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