Sentence examples for bridge pillar from inspiring English sources

Police said 56-year-old McClendon was the only occupant in the SUV, which hit a concrete bridge pillar shortly after 9am, and that it is too early to tell if the collision was intentional.

Dr. Orszag, who had taught at Yale since 1998 and before that at Princeton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was especially interested in problems of turbulent flow -- that is, the complications that result when the flow is especially rapid and irregular, for example when a brisk stream encounters a bridge pillar.

At around 06:00 the last operational medium bomber, a Fokker T. V, dropped two bombs on the bridge; one hit a bridge pillar but failed to explode; the bomber was shot down.

Opponents say it is not the direct impact of the bridge pillars that matters, but that compaction caused by construction machinery will cause 'irreversible damage.

It has also appeared with a vengeance on street signs and local highways, where bridge pillars and retaining walls beckon like big blank canvases.

They project the image onto warehouses or bridge pillars, tune their car stereos to a designated FM frequency, and sit back and enjoy the show.

A packed double-decker bus blew a tire and slammed into a concrete bridge support pillar on Interstate 55 on Thursday, leaving at least one person dead and more than three dozen others injured, officials said.

In August, a Megabus crashed into a bridge support pillar on an Illinois interstate after blowing a tire, causing one death and dozens of injuries.

Activist videos uploaded on YouTube showed the remnants of the bridge, its pillars seemingly intact but the suspension gone.

However, while Article 301 EC might be seen as a cross-pillar bridge, Article 308 EC surely cannot fulfil that function.

Often the scene of the previous accidents, in 2006 364 people died in a crush at the foot of the bridge to the pillars as they travelled to the "Stoning of the Devil" ceremony.