Sentence examples for like to erect from inspiring English sources

To heighten the ambience of romance, he would like to erect a "kissing bridge" on Canal Street.

Stevenson would like to erect historical markers on the sites of lynchings, much as Germany has tried to mark Nazi crimes against Jews.

Yet it is also the sort of place where the nouveau riche, derisively called New Russians, are tearing down the historic dachas once owned by writers and Communist leaders in tony neighborhoods like Zhukovka, to erect American-style Taras.

In fact, they say, disputes involving common driveways can range from the mundane -- allowing children to leave their toys in the way, failing to shovel snow or refusing to share the cost of repairs -- to more significant matters, like attempting to erect a stockade fence along the property line.

What other corporate magnates possess the vision and drive to defy a depressed market and to commission world-class architects like Rem Koolhaas to erect temples of retailing not just in New York but also in Tokyo, San Francisco, Paris and Los Angeles?

Around 200 BC the enormous nearby city of El Mirador had started to erect stela-like monuments, bearing inscriptions that appear to be glyphs but that are so far unreadable.

Sedgwick had granted me the freedom to erect whatever I liked.

That's when plutocrats like W. K. Vanderbilt began to erect gargantuan houses that they insisted on calling cottages.

In Beijing, local officials plan to demolish about 60 areas like Laogucheng this year alone, mainly to erect high-rise complexes and greenbelts.

At the same time that Koolhaas was fulminating against the "vulgar desire to impose flashy new form" on cities like St . Petersburg he was attempting to erect the most breathtaking building of his career — in Beijing.

The Saudis are spending 1.1 billion renminbi, about $161 million, to erect a pavilion shaped liked a half moon suspended on pylons.