Sentence examples for decided to erect a from inspiring English sources

Inspired, he decided to erect a fortress with crenelated towers to house his weaponry.

Within days of Lincoln's murder, a Springfield committee decided to erect a monument to him.

In 1998, the museum's trustees decided to erect a new building, and to hold a competition to find an architect.

One of its major cities decided to erect a permanent tent city, for a permanently excluded, marginalized underclass.

Soon after, fishermen in Cojímar decided to erect a bust of the American who had lived among them.

Tellingly, she decided to erect a slide at her Milan office that took visitors careering down from the third floor.

Then, when the museum finally gave up and decided to erect an entirely new building downtown, one that would become its main home, the global economy went into a tailspin.

When this work was nearly completed, it was found that the old Balaclava breakwater foundations were giving way in places, and it was decided to erect an apron to strengthen the outer toe of the wall that was subjected to furious N.E. gales, with no protection as Captain Mackay the harbour master said, nearer than Spitzbergen.

In 1896, The Real Estate Record and Guide reported that John Jacob Astor had been considering building private houses on his property at the southeast corner of 55th and Fifth but because of the street's growing commercialization had decided to erect an apartment hotel.

There's no telling what Erdogan might have done if artists had decided to erect an effigy of Peter the Great, Michael Jackson or even Sylvester Stallone as Rocky -- all of which exist in spectacularly over-the-top glory elsewhere in the world -- in his country.

The idea that a minor Spanish city might decide to erect a statue of a bespectacled American auteur out of the blue, without notification, is an appealingly wacky one (though the end result is nowhere near qualifying as one of the most bizarre statues in the world).