Sentence examples for erect a tower from inspiring English sources

If Mr. Levinson razed it, he could erect a tower only about four-fifths as large.

There had been at least a dozen efforts to erect a Tower of Babel.

But it can take years to obtain government approvals and erect a tower.

The university plans to demolish the house and three adjacent buildings to erect a tower as high as 13 stories.

A suggestion to erect a tower atop Prentice's broad podium, alongside the cloverleaf (think of the wing next to Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York) went nowhere, too, struggling unpersuasively as it did to salvage Goldberg's plan.

Joseph, the 21-year-old web designer, logged on to my island and found a spot on top of a remote hill where he began to erect a tower.

The fight in Oryol follows a series of controversies in Russia over monuments, including an ongoing debate over plans for an 80-metre statue of Jesus Christ in St Petersburg, proposals to return a statue of Soviet secret police founder Feliks Dzerzhinsky to the spot where it was toppled in 1991, and efforts to erect a towering monument to Grand Prince Vladimir – or Volodymyr – in Moscow.

Erecting a tower near a downtown bus stop would do significantly less environmental harm.

In December 2011, he erected a tower, 7, on a specially built pier next to IM Pei's museum.

One reason that offshore wind has not caught on in the United States is the steep cost of erecting a tower in the water, but researchers at the University of Maine tried another approach on Friday by launching a floating wind machine.

In memory of his victory, Narses erected a tower at Paikuli, in the mountains west of the upper Diyālā River, which was discovered in 1843 by the British Orientalist Sir Henry Rawlinson.