José Rivera's characters tend to live in a world where magical and concrete forces coexist, where life's anchoring burdens do battle with uncommonly potent wishes and dreams.
For example, radiation levels in my office are minimal, but are much higher in the men's room which is deeper in the building, where more concrete forces the iPhone to work harder to hold a connection to the nearest cellular base station.
The Tory candidate for London mayor has just published his Living Environment Manifesto, a document with many pledges to preserve all that is leafy against the concreting forces of the city's blooming growth.
The springtime sun blazes over East Arrow Highway in Pomona, California, and the glare off the whitish-gray concrete walkways forces everyone to squint.
Variations in shape, aspect ratio, dimensions, axial compression force, concrete characteristic strength and longitudinal reinforcement ratio are considered in the defined samples.
And the anti-sweatshop movement has contributed to improvements in workers' lives in concrete ways, forcing better compliance with health and safety norms and reducing the most egregious forms of harassment.
Despite repeated pledges from E.U officials about the need to gain control of the continent's external borders, there has been little concrete action — forcing member states to revive internal border controls that disappeared decades ago.
The road into the city was an obstacle course made from an eclectic selection of barriers: metal bars set with eight-inch-long spikes, rolls of razor wire, and oil drums filled with concrete, which forced cars to weave a slow slalom path between them.
For as the architects inthe movement affected the artists, so the artists affected the architects, with the result that for many years those most ductile of materials, steel and concrete, were forced to conform to angularities of design that were primarily pictorial rather than architectural.
Instead, he argued, Martin was the aggressor, emerging from the darkness to break Zimmerman's nose with a sucker punch and smashing his head on a concrete pavement, forcing him to fire the single shot from his 9mm semi-automatic pistol to save his life.
They are drilled to intersect the main well and then concrete is forced down the holes to seal the leaking well.
