The build pillar or, in British terms, creating a viable state.
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.
"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.
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.
They told me the man used to tap on every newly built cement pillar with a little hammer.
It built a pillar of strength within me.
In a quiet backwater, built on pillars astride the river, it was the first home of Fran ciscan monks in England.
When it opened in 1929, the hall's 456-by-310-foot auditorium, with its 14-story-high barrel-shaped ceiling, was declared the largest in the world built without pillars or obstructions.
Its 1805 house, built on pillars to avoid flood damage, had also fallen on hard times, but its current owners, Norman and Sand Marmillion, engaged in extensive detective work.
These houses, built on pillars and posts half way up the face of a cliff, are high enough so that the Eskimos can spot seal and walrus as they come by on the ice below.
Elastic is also built on pillars of financial sustainability.
