Sentence examples for facade over from inspiring English sources

Are they operating a cynical public relations campaign and, motivated by sheer greed, putting a green facade over practices they know to be destructive?

Giorgione's principal public commission was the execution of frescoes on the exterior of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (the German Exchange), where he painted the figures on the facade over the canal.

In the end, the Western secular culture fostered at the court and the new religious culture and education spread by Ukrainians and Belarusians, who came to dominate church life, submerged and displaced the disparate beginnings of a modern synthesis within native matrices and cleared the way for Peter's cultural policies, which erected a Western facade over the ruins of the native traditions.

The Maazels figured there was plenty of time to finish their bigger-than-expected construction project -- plenty of time to finish putting the stone facade over the tumbledown walls of the chicken coop, plenty of time to finish installing the sliding glass doors that look out on the Blue Ridge Mountains, plenty of time to debug the theater's computer-controlled lighting system.

In other words it makes every record in a database reachable by an intuitive hyperlink," said Olex. "Related records are also linked, which effectively forms a graph facade over traditional SQL data.

To date the research work on this ground is substantial, but it still lacks clinical accomplishment, with the existing development facade over the clinical exploitation of drugs with dual acting cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibition and antiproliferative potency [ 1].

In 1998, after bricks fell from a Madison Avenue office building, the city passed a regulation known as Local Law 11, calling for inspection of all facades over six stories.

This information is used to define degradation curves, which graphically express the loss of performance of architectural concrete facades over time, evaluating the influence of the degradation agents, allowing estimating a reference service life for this type of coating.

As the piazza bustles, the church's towering facade looms over the action like an elaborate marble wedding cake.

It is true that there are many historical precedents for emphasizing facade design over space and structure.

Daniel Burnham's 1896 Ellicott Square Building, with its mighty Italian Renaissance facade, towers over the corner of Main and Church Streets.