Sentence examples for battered walls from inspiring English sources

Architects also used Egypt's associations with durability to allay fears of new technologies: reservoirs had massive, battered walls, while pylons and obelisks supported suspension bridges.

The battered walls are covered instead with fliers and news clips and portraits of Cesar Chavez, Teresa of Avila and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Two kinds of photos of Day hang in the Maryhouse office.

In which respects, the Liverpool Philharmonic is typical of its architects' attitudes, going a back to a house Adam Caruso made for himself in the early 90s, where the battered walls of an old workshop were left unimproved, at the same time that a wall of what was then innovative glazing changed the nature of the place.

These newly battered walls bring back portraits of its victims.

"These battered walls, the flat roofs, small windows, and interesting decorative features are all important aspects of Tibet's unique architecture".

The first full trading week of 2009 started with optimism but ended with stock markets down about 4percentt for the five days, as bleak employment numbers battered Wall Street Friday and raised new fears about the scope of the economic downturn.

But there is a division among state officials over how vigorously New York's attorney general should batter Wall Street.

It is impossible to determine yet the extent of the damage that the financial hurricane battering Wall Street will have on the economies of New York City and its surrounding region.

But the mayor's latest move, which came on the same day that the state comptroller said turmoil in the credit and housing markets would batter Wall Street and take a toll on tax revenues for the city and state, is a sign that Mr. Bloomberg's regular predictions of tighter times are coming true.

Officials feared more damage from high tides, which broke and battered sea walls, while hundreds of flights were canceled at airports from Madrid and Paris to Frankfurt.

Sheik Saidi's mosque -- a simple room with broken ceiling fans and battered concrete walls -- was shuttered by Mr. Hussein's son Qusay in 1998.