Sentence examples for lift falling from inspiring English sources
But he lost his balance on his second lift, falling down as he attempted to hoist 432 pounds.
As the lift falls further and further, the viewer too is plunged into darkness and silence.
Five tourists and one staff member were injured and another 10 people were trapped when a lift fell 10ft inside the north tower of Tower Bridge today.
On Tuesday, the laborer, Rogelio Daze-Villaneuva, 43, was killed by falling beams that had been on a construction lift when the lift fell through the floor, officials said.
He was driving one of those man-lifts high up in the air and he hit a hole and the whole lift fell and the kid came flying out of it and split his head wide open.
So the heavy lifting fell to Maria Guarnaschelli, the New York editor who spent five years on the project.
But the competitive duet, while some elements of it (lifts, falls, dragging along the floor) could be construed as playful, is a battle.
It is orange and recently joined 20 to 30 similar machines that can be used for lifting fallen trees after major storms.
The heavy lifting falls on parochial church councils, whose main contact with the wider community is the rattling of a collection tin for the upkeep of their spiritual home.
Further heavy lifting fell to the Senate's Democratic majority leader, Harry Reid, and his Republican counterpart Mitch McConnell, both former lawyers (though only Mr Reid can claim the distinction of being targeted with a car bomb, shortly after declining bribes from the wrong sort of Nevada businessman).
