Sentences with phrase «with ruined buildings»

The urban destruction of Amiens, with its ruined buildings and tight alleyways, makes for one of the few settings where CQC feels genuinely rewarding.

The streets are lined with ruined buildings and dust - covered cars, bringing to mind post-9 / 11 Manhattan.

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Two decades after «Dover Beach,» the Fabian Socialists in England were busily, busily building on the ruins with education, sociological research and reform.

I agree you can't build anything with a wrecking ball, but neither can you build anything on a ruins.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

The messages I received throughout my pregnancy, in literature, at classes and even from friends» anecdotes, was that childbirth should be kept «natural» It's all right to treat pregnancy like an embarrassing disease, but childbirth has been built up to be some kind of quasi-mystical experience that might be ruined if the naughty men with their machines and drugs are allowed to interfere.

I have slaved over diapers filled with smell and build up, and ruined a batch or two with bad detergent as well!

We've built a great relationship with our provider, and ruining it wasn't worth the cost of one diaper!

It also comes with a built - in surge protector, so you won't have to worry about surges ruining your watering schedule.

When it first started, I thought, «Oh my gosh, they're ruining my makeup,» but now I realize it's such a memory - building moment with them and they feel so confident.

If you're putting all your effort in building an incredible physique, you can't ruin it with a poor Halloween Costume.

She sits on the ruins with Daniel and recollects facing that dilemma we all fear but few face, that moment when you have to «decide what you take from a burning building.»

It suddenly dawned on him that Job 314 might refer to the Biblical book of Job 3:14 («with kings and counsellors of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins»).

You see, the whole relationship is built around the fact that Pym has been hiding the truth of what happened to Hope's mother and there's this really big emotional moment where he finally tells her, letting her know that he hid it all these years, ruining his relationship with his only child and causing her to abandon him, because....

Combined with the experience of building rich gameplay Ubisoft is known for, Transference ™ is a dark, thrilling puzzle featuring Macon Blair (Blue Ruin, Green Room).

With his parents missing, and perhaps even dead, Richie must find a way to not let Van Dough ruin everything his benevolent father had built up.

«Blue Ruin, which won an international - critics prize at Cannes last year (2013), is Saulnier's successful attempt to build some creative space between the iron conventions of Hollywood revenge sagas and the informality of a movie made with friends.

Even the logic of deterrence — which the film suggests will be humanity's ruin, since it's the Soviet doomsday machine that will automatically trigger nuclear holocaust if Major Kong accomplishes his mission, and was built in order to deter any such attack — is still with us.

Satrapi deliberately stuck with the stark monochrome of her graphic novel to make her tale of rebellion and displacement a universal one, but ensures each frame is a surprising visual spectacle — be it a surreal musical sequence or the horror of a human hand in a building's bombed ruins.

Conan Exiles is nothing like an empty sandbox, it is full of interesting locations, like an ancient city filled with dark magic, the ruins of a gladiatorial arena, deep caves filled with undead, a massive pirate ship built on land plus much much more.

Resources include: INFORMATION FILES: The Roman Empire — how Rome began, how it was ruled, Caesar, Pompey, the Army, Enemies Daily Life in Rome: family life, jobs, schooling, food, clothing Citizens and Slaves: Patricians, Plebeians, Slaves, Rebellions, Rights, Spartacus Colosseum: information and photos The Emperors: Augustus, Trajan, Hadrian, Nero, Constantine, Vespasian Roman Gods pictures and information Calendar information Italy today information Pompeii information Public baths and toilets information Roads and aqueducts information Roman army information sheet Large key word cards with definitions Timeline posters pack PHOTO PACKS: Roman ruins around Britain Roads and aqueducts Pompeii Public baths and toilets Italy today QUESTION SHEETS: Army worksheet Buildings of Ancient Rome worksheet Emperors worksheet Julius Caesar worksheet Italy today quiz People of Rome question sheet The roman Empire worksheet MAPS: Maps of the world, Europe, italy today, Roman Empire, Roman Britain, Europe outline to colour LARGE FLASHCARD SETS: Ancient Rome Italian cities Italian things ACTIVITIES AND OTHER Acrostic poem All about Rome — writing and drawing booklet to make Alphabetical order worksheet Ancient Rome colouring pages Draw your own Roman shield Draw a roman villa Find the definitions Flag colouring page Week diary booklet Draw a roman feast Dress the roman soldier Draw and write facts about a roman landmark or building Draw and list the things romans gave us Mae a presentation, with cue cards to complete Roman children lunchbox Make emperor photo flashcards Mind map Notes pad Roman soldier worksheet — label the different armour Task cards Word search Blank thought and speech bubbles for display Write sentences for topic evaluation Work booklet cover to keep topic work together Themed borders for written work DISPLAY A4 flags of Europe, display borders, buntings, extra large lettering, long banner, useful images, plus other display resources LANGUAGE Months, days and common phrases flashcards in English and Italian flashcards

It's all about the momentum here to build the speed, and that is where dealing with all the traffic was very important; you didn't get bogged down too much because it would kind of ruin your rhythm.

Our house was in a rural part of Pennsylvania and was not really a house at all but a wild castle built into the burnt - out ruins of a nineteenth - century silk mill, and our backyard was not a regular yard but a meandering meadow, with a creek running through it and wild geese living in it and a Death Slide cable that ran from high on an oak to the bank of the stream and deposited you, shrieking, into the shallow water.

Rosenharte caught sight of the man with the straw hat issuing from a ruined building on his right and coming down the pier towards him.

I jumped from the car, all excited, only to gaze with my father and Benny at the blank acres that held the ruins of some old motel where the Flamingo Club and hotel would soon be built.

What sucks EVEN MORE than all of this though, is that the hardware itself which was built by a Chinese company made an absolutely awesome tablet with great specifications, and Pandigital had to come and just f*ck it all up with their absolutely lame software and lack of programming skills and ruin the hopes of having the first decent Android tablet in the USA (The Archos 7 HT is French, I don't care who you ask.)

Top 10 ways students ruin their credit — College can be a great time to enjoy independence and build a foundation for the future, or an opportunity to begin their careers with unnecessary credit card debt.

If you chase hypes and fads (micro Dachshunds, teacup this, toy that), you are simply working with a very short term objective that will ruin the breed's health, but also will not allow you to build a reputation.

«You could have the most beautiful building, you could provide the best medicine, but if you're not treated with respect and empathy and professionalism, it sort of ruins the entire experience.»

Sid — When I was on Machu Picchu, one of the theories we explored was the idea that the Incas didn't actually build those ruins; that instead, they were built by «others» billions of years in the past — which coincides with the theories in that documentary you watched.

You will see many amazing sights including the Cusco Cathedral (built on top of the ruins of the Inca Palace), the old town with its magnificent renovated colonial buildings and the Sacsayhuaman, an Inca ruin, located approximately 3 kilometers above Cusco.

With cobblestone streets and alleys, an imposing cathedral built by the conquistadors, and nearby ruins, Cusco is also the setting - off point for Machu Picchu.

This UNESCO World Heritage Site is an educational gem, with newly built walkways allowing visitors to wander through the incredibly well - preserved ruins, and informative signs explaining megalithic building methods and other fascinating titbits about the ancient Gozitans who once lived here.

Leon is filled with historic reminders of Nicaragua's colourful past, housing the Leon Viejo ruins, one of the oldest Spanish settlements in the «new world», as well as the magnificent Cathedral Basilca, which was built between the 18th and 20th centuries.

Altun Ha was one of the largest Mayan trading hubs and is the country's most excavated ruin with more than 250 buildings for visitors to view.

You will see the three stages of the excavation of this late Inca - town: the excavated buildings and constructions; the ruins currently in the process of excavation and finally the unexplored areas and terraces with the secrets they may hold of this last refuge of the dying Inca empire.

The Hacienda Mundaca, which was built by the famous pirate Fermin Mundaca features majestic ruins, beautiful winding paths that go through shady grounds and a solar clock complete with a garden that's dedicated to La Triguena.

Past ruined farm buildings and reconstructed windmills we go, leaving the sealed roads to get to Playa de las Genoveses with its white limestone headland.

The complex has a series of ruins with the main building, a castle, sat on the cliff.

The Inca ruins of Moray are more than a building feat, with enormous pits reaching over 100 feet in depth.

Both islands are dotted with Creole buildings, plantation houses, inns and ruins.

Colonial buildings have been built on Inca walls, there are Inca ruins on every side and the streets are filled with local mountain people, still clad in traditional dress.

The beautiful and historic town of Nessebar is close by with ancient Bulgarian ruins and buildings and it is 100 km away from Varna.

Because I love to visit old buildings with magnificent architecture, ruins with beautiful and bloody history, amazing scenery, and old waterways.

There are 8 main sites of the Mayan ruins that are still standing today, namely: Tikal — a c. 700 AD city in Guatemala Caracol — another city except from c. 500 AD and situated in Belize Chichén Itzá — a monument and center for pilgrimage located in Mexico Tulum — a coastal Mayan site present until c. 1200 AD Kabah — a ruin with elaborate and intricate carvings on the wall which was used from c. 800 AD to c. 900 AD Palenque — another site located in Mexico thought to be magical, present from c. 600 AD to c. 700 AD Coba — a partially excavated network of roads and pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico Uxmal — the most extravagant and complex of all eight Mayan sites, built shortly before c. 1000 AD.

On this Yucatán tour, you'll explore many of these archaeological ruins and discover its fun cities with overnights in Cancun, Uxmal, Campeche, Mérida, and Chichen Itza.In ancient times, the Maya built complex cities, developed an accurate calendar, aligned their buildings for astronomical purposes, and learned to effectively farm.

We spent two days at the ruins, and my advice would be to build two days into your stay at Machu Picchu (especially if traveling with family).

Lima is a cosmopolitan city steeped in history with pre-Columbian ruins, Spanish colonial buildings, and remnants of colonial mansions with lavish, Moorish - style balconies.

Start in Lima, a cosmopolitan city steeped in history with pre-Columbian ruins, Spanish colonial buildings, and remnants of colonial mansions.

Time travel with a visit to the pre-Colombian ruins of El Fuerte, a fortress built by the Chané people and later inhabited by the Inca.