By the week's end, workers driving heavy machinery would begin razing the remaining buildings in town.
They sent their only son to the local school but his English was limited and after six months of relentless teasing from classmates, Álvaro opted for a life driving farm machinery and picking fruit in surroundings straight out of a John Steinbeck novel.
A Boston Globe story began with the words, "Iraq's U.S.-led invaders inflicted serious damage on Babylon, driving heavy machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops, and digging trenches through one of the world's greatest archeological sites".
N: I would be driving heavy machinery, and crushing s***.
In a pragmatic sense, tiredness could also be a danger if you're driving, using machinery or perhaps not being 100percentt present crossing the road while listening to Elliott Smith deep cuts and pondering the vagaries of your existence.
It was described at the time as "a small village of workshops and offices and an electrical generating station to provide the power for driving the machinery and for lighting purposes during construction".
Author George R. R. Martin (now with the help of show creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss) has built a world for which the clockwork map is a fine metaphor many parts from many sources, in motion, all driving the machinery of intrigue, violence, and impending doom.
Investment in technologies for the next generation of tractors, powered by hydrogen or methane, or for self-driving machinery that will boost efficiency, is largely taking place elsewhere.
It is probably an allegory of the mindlessly self-perpetuating machinery driving modern civilization.
