Sentence examples for act of demolition from inspiring English sources

For a thousand years after the act of demolition wrought by the Goths, the Romans were again, as in the early Republic, compelled to draw their water from the Tiber and the wells.

Passing sentence, District Judge Brennan said: "In my judgment, the act of demolition was clearly deliberate and flew in the face of advice and knowledge of the existence of the bat roost.

And it was a terrible act of demolition, it was an act of vandalism.

The Hole House projects utilized the act of demolition to explore the qualities of light.

They are seeking a guarantee of judicial intervention for acts of demolition carried out without adequate rehousing and compensation.

Chinese developers today typically want quite the opposite: Everything must look as new as possible, and development projects that involve world class architecture are usually not "people-centered". Architecture in China often begins with acts of demolition, the destruction of old structures, even whole neighborhoods.

/ flat!" The song is an act of psychic demolition.

Far more haunting than any of his drawings is this picture of the artist himself, caught in the act of symbolic demolition.

For more haunting than any of Mr. Takal's drawings is this pic ure of the artist himself, caught in the act of symbo ic demolition.

Mr. Moynihan, who died in 2003, also viewed the station project as an act of civic redemption, for the demolition in 1963 of the original Beaux-Arts Penn Station.

But today, with the encouragement of the American government, Chinese engineers are preparing a similar act of desecration in Afghanistan: the demolition of a vast complex of richly decorated ancient Buddhist monasteries.