Sentences with phrase «wooden poles in»

An olufe — a wooden pole in Lugbara, her spoken language — used to mix millet, stands upright, set not in a traditional mortar but in a toilet.

Not exact matches

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The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Authority, NEMSA, has outlawed the use of wooden poles for electricity installations in the power sector.

Former President Rawlings earlier in his address charged the citizenry to be responsible enough to protect wooden electric poles by employing a community effort to weed the shrubbery around such poles so they are not affected by bushfires with the attendant effect of collapsing the poles and disrupting power distribution.

If solar rooftop arrays became as ubiquitous in home design as chimneys, the U.S. grid could indeed cease to exist — an end to power lines, electrical substations and transformers atop equally archaic wooden utility poles.

Thanks for being the best Mum, You taught me how to thread a needle, how paint and draw, how to sew in straight lines and how to make brooches out of old wooden curtain poles, you encouraged me to go to art school, fashion college and then St.Martins.

In addition to inventing bifocals, a device to reach for items using a long wooden pole with a grasping claw at the end and an odometer, Franklin invented: A. electricity B. lightning rod C. electronic calculator

In rural Ghana, a typical private school might consist of an open - air structure, often no more than a tin roof supported by wooden poles, on a small plot of land.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

«And that's justice in former times,» he said, noticing that I was looking above the hearth, where there was a display of antique truncheons arranged in declining size, like pan pipes, from an enormous wooden pole, two and a half feet long, to a short and brutal stub with a thick brass ferrule.

They wore high boots of soft, brown leather, and were armed with jeweled dirks in their belts; in the left hand some carried sharp pikes on six - foot wooden poles.

In a narrow quiet lane behind busy Jalan Raya Seminyak, a gathering of carved wooden totem poles guard the round thatch - roofed entrance to Blue Karma, suggesting that this is not your run - of - the mill hotel.

By manipulating advance and grip buttons, you can hang onto wooden poles and other contraptions, while you can also call up Doodle to lift you up, thus making you a little lighter in case you miss a grab.

A massive structure of wooden poles festooned with colorful ribbons by the British sculptor Phyllida Barlow is the first work one encounters when visiting the 2013 Carnegie International, the quadrennial (or thereabouts) show at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art that stands as the oldest global contemporary art exhibition in the United States.

And if you found yourself wanting one of their wooden totem poles in a metal box, well... tough titties!

«In the darkened gallery space a round wooden platform with textile walls and an iron pole is spinning around its own axis, reminiscent of both, a merry - go - round, a cinema theatre and a mobile war tent... the merry - go - round is spinning so fast that the spectator's gaze can not fully grasp what's inside the tent;» (PR Klosterfelde gallery).

Up above, Miles Greenberg had arranged for naked bodies to lie splayed out between wooden poles on sheets of transparent plastic, in corpse - like repose.

Featured are a series of tall wooden poles covered in woven cord emblazoned with various geometric shapes, words and symbols called Cetros, resembling scepters or staffs.

This unique handmade wooden bicycle, made in the UK from sustainably - harvested local hardwood poles, demonstrates a potential opportunity for sustainable woodland products using the traditional technique of coppicing.

Experience in climbing wooden poles and performing pole transfers and tree trimming operations

If you're hanging curtains in smaller windows, you can cut the wooden poles from the wooden pole kits to size.