Sentence examples for major gate from inspiring English sources

A major gate at Folsom Dam in California burst in 1995 after the wrong lubricant was used on its gears.

In some circles, Orphic and Dionysiac ideas were blended, as in the community that met in the underground basilica near the Porta Maggiore (Major Gate) at Rome.

The street network of Old Delhi reflects the defense needs of an earlier era, with a few transverse streets leading from one major gate to another.

This allowed the definition of the major gate for NC based on cell populations from the mixed IVD cell type.

Cryptococcus neoformans, a facultative organism that is very unique in attacking the lymphocytic cells, thereby creating a major gate way to HIV target.

ON the north side of this busy thoroughfare rises the medina wall, about 20 feet high and punctuated along its several-block length by five major gates, their high arches dwarfing the stream of people strolling in and out.

Our Mercedes bus, with the Vatican's SCV license plates, set out from St. Peter's Square at 10 A.M. for the Archway of the Bells, one of the Vatican's four major gates, on the left (south) side of the square.

And he summoned all his knowledge, intelligence and indomitable will to navigate the maze of foreign and Chinese interests that sought to impede the investigation of a horrifying crime: Pamela's brutal murder in 1937.The book begins as Pamela, back home from a British-style public school in Tientsin, is found mutilated in a ditch near one of the major gates in the city walls.

In desperation, a military commander in the northeast opened a major bianqiang gate to the Manchus, a northern tribe, in the hope that they would restore the ruling family.

The North Korean state-run media said Sunday that the country's leader, Kim Jong-il, had mobilized military forces to rescue and evacuate thousands of North Koreans from floods that hit Sinuiju, the isolated country's major trading gate on its border with China.

The research itself might need government leadership or a major benefactor (Gates, anyone?) to spearhead it.