"If your house is ruined, you have to build pillars first, and then you hire guards outside your building," she says, analogizing this to the military's roadmap for Egypt.
When the M.T.A. took over the rail yards in the early 1980's, Mr. Ravitch said, he made sure that it was possible to build pillars between the newly reconfigured tracks for a platform that would support office towers, hotels and apartment buildings.
Any piece will do: use thick beams to build a strong ground floor, use straight, strong pieces to build pillars and use anything like branch to cover your roof.
While I'm there, I'm hoping to build another pillar for artists trying to tour Asia.
McCain offered to build new pillars for that system — a League of Democracies, a new nuclear nonproliferation regime and a successor to the Kyoto treaty.
The line of questioning was part of the government's promise in opening arguments to build "seven pillars of fraud" that prove the conspiracy.
In his first speech following his recent surgery he declared himself stronger than ever in will and determination, vowing to fulfil his promise to "build the pillars of democracy"—an edifice which, at the current pace of construction, looks unlikely to be completed in the foreseeable future.
"A sustained recovery is now within reach, but only if we persevere on all fronts of our crisis response: keep up the pace of economic reform, regain control over our debt, both public and private, and build the pillars of a genuine economic and monetary union," he said.
Ultimately, to challenge the Bay Area for market leadership, we need a wave of Medidatas to build additional pillars supporting the NYC platform.
They told me the man used to tap on every newly built cement pillar with a little hammer.
