Sentence examples for cables pipes from inspiring English sources

The torture experienced by prisoners included severe whippings with cables, pipes and other objects, full-body beatings, twisting of genitals and threats of execution and sexual assault.

The problem does not lie with the construction companies, Ms. Quigley said, but with companies that come in to install underground cables, pipes or wires.

Beneath the dash, driver and passenger can caress completely exposed cables, pipes and connectors.

The identification of buried cables, pipes, conduits, and other cylindrical utilities is a very important task in civil engineering.

We'll also make more use of underground space, already so riddled with cables, pipes, sewerage, subway lines and basements that fossil-hunters of the future will wonder what enormous creature burrowed and ate its way through the Earth to leave such tunnels.

The cost of designing and building a new sewerage system or waste incinerator can be made prohibitive by the high price of land, the need to work around existing buildings, roads, electricity cables, pipes, and so forth, and of course the need to respect the rights of residents and landowners.

Cable pipes and telephone lines are widely seen as the speediest access lines linking homes and the Internet.

Comcast, of course, owns those direct-to-cable pipes, giving the roughly 200 NBC affiliates reason to fear that Comcast could bypass them altogether and take NBC's best-known shows straight to cable customers.

This has been one reason for the race to upgrade distribution systems, whether cable pipes, turbo-charged telephone lines or the set-top boxes that decode the television signals beamed down by satellites.

Among the many ironies exposed by the collapse of AOL's status within AOL Time Warner is this: one of the chief motivations for AOL's merger with Time Warner in 2000 was to secure access to the old media group's cable pipes in order to put broadband services at the centre of the multimedia experience.

AOL and Time Warner executives thought the proposal had an internal logic, and they stressed that since AOL had a desire to get into the cable pipes of the 80percentt of the market not under Time Warner, it would be against Time Warner's interests to impose too onerous a financial condition on either AOL or its rivals.