Sentence examples for edifice structure from inspiring English sources

The principal edifice, Structure 29, rising 6 m from the floor of the acropolis, has a doorway 1.3 m wide spanned by a lintel which is still in place, although the building is otherwise in ruins.

The feasibility of periodically repeated cosmic-ray muon radiographies opens also new perspectives on the near-real time investigation of volume deformation of a volcanic edifice structure, induced by inner processes of mass re-distribution.

However, i have affinity with the power of storm-surge and how strong "edifice's" structures to withstand storm-surge.

But time order in turn is reduced to that of causal order and so the whole edifice of structures of spacetime is considered epistemologically derivative, resting upon ultimately basic empirical facts about causal order and a prohibition against action-at-a-distance.

Leptis is a different story; although the same earthquake brought many of its 12m columns and walls crashing to the ground - where they lie, unmoved more than 1,600 years later - the limestone edifices and structures have survived far better.

Volcanic edifices, the structures around the volcanic vents, are included in RiskScape as AVF eruptions generally create a new cone, tuff ring, and/or maar.

"I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices, or structures, or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.

For example a school reflective mackerel fish, proceeding in a self-distributing pattern of fractal movement; the DNA's spiky double-helix in the swirling metamorphosis of microscopic genetics; the ragged contours of rusty prickly pears; the folds of a kimono; or the resemblance of a fictional edifice to the structure of his family tree.

Upon this edifice rests a circular structure supported by six Corinthian columns the earliest surviving examples of that order.

To judge from several recent and important Broadway openings, a play can be a vast and elaborate structure, an edifice that looks grand in some places, crumbling and near collapse in others.

A monument is an edifice, an architecturally significant structure that serves to remind us of great deeds by an individual or group.