Sentence examples for built on debris from inspiring English sources
"You couldn't have a place more infused with Chicago and more infused with everything that Chicago has experienced," said the city's cultural historian, Tim Samuelson, who noted that parts of the park were probably built on debris left behind from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Facing potentially costly suits over a crumbling burial hill built on demolition debris, Cypress Hills Cemetery, the huge graveyard on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, has filed a bankruptcy petition.
40 Cemetery Seeks Legal Relief Facing potentially costly suits over a crumbling burial hill built on demolition debris, Cypress Hills Cemetery has filed a bankruptcy petition.
Lava flows are always built on top of debris flows as a result of the snow melt caused by the emission of heat just before an eruption.
Many of the most troubled neighborhoods were built on the soot and debris that developers used to fill in the marshes that once stretched alongside the Schuylkill and Delaware River.
Despite warnings from scientists, and ignoring the fact that the town was built on deposits of volcanic debris, the authorities did nothing, committing the inhabitants to death by incarceration in a muddy tomb.
They all have plans for a memorial to be built on the 10-acre site where debris from ground zero was unloaded.
Across town in the 9th Ward, in 1985, Robert Moton Elementary School was built on a garbage pile stuffed with toxic Hurricane Betsy debris.
Seeing the poor state of where the Temple once stood, Umar ordered the area cleared of refuse and debris before having a wooden mosque built on the site.
It will be built on the site of the former Burlington Coat Factory, whose roof was destroyed by falling debris from the towers on that fateful September morning, just 600 feet from where they stood.
