Sentence examples for built over the existing from inspiring English sources

Before the old station was torn down, a steel structure was built over the existing train tracks and platforms.

Today's project, first approved by the Paris city council in 2011, then rejected in the courts in March this year, would expand the Roland-Garros site by 50% to 12.8 hectares (31.6 acres), with a new court in the next-door botanical garden and a retractable roof built over the existing centre court.

Other proposals, to bury only a portion of the street or to build platforms over the existing roadbed, could cost less, of course, and disturb less of the extensive infrastructure -- telephone and electrical lines, among other things -- that exists below street level.

The main building was built over two existing structures, possibly to accommodate the new lessee of the manor, Robert Drury, a former Speaker of the House of Commons.

It is even probable that they in turn built over an existing iron age trackway or trade route.

Many industry observers consider it all but inevitable that mobile ridesharing will eliminate taxis, but Spiegelman and his board head into their December 18th meeting seeking to take the good from what Uber and Lyft are doing without sacrificing the protections that have been built into the existing taxi system over decades.

The current castle was built over existing fortifications and served the double purpose of a palace of local government and as a defensive structure in case of attack.

Solid is an open-source project built on the existing web meant to give people control over their own data.

State regulators, however, say they play a watchdog role over telecommunications companies that may be trying to avoid important social obligations built into the existing regulatory system.

Wilpon's plan calls for a new park to be built in the existing parking lot at Shea.... Two Mets each lost 15 pounds over the winter: outfielder DARRYL HAMILTON and reliever RICK WHITE.

The arena was built around the existing artificial rink.