Sentence examples for monumental constructions from inspiring English sources

The investigated Diestian and Brusselian ferruginous sandstone have frequently been applied in monumental constructions and many of these monuments presently suffer from material degradation and, in some cases, stability concerns.

During the 1920s Gabo continued to create monumental constructions out of glass, metal, and plastic.

Imposing, homely edifices towered all around, monumental constructions of steel and concrete encrusted with layers of soot.

Here, among rolling hills and grassy pastures, in stands of pine and on manicured lawns, monumental constructions by artists like Calder, Henry Moore, Claes Oldenburg and Richard Serra dot the undulating landscape.

Village life, in time associated with monumental constructions, was a response of some of the peoples who experienced this change.

The earliest monumental constructions in the New World were built about 3500 BC by Louisiana foragers at places such as Watson Brake.

Royal monumental construction essentially stopped, and dynasties became fragmented; one ancient source famously claims that seventy different kings ruled during a stretch of seventy days.

It was a monumental construction project that, despite being driven by dodgy science and political self-interest, dramatically improved the public's health and laid the foundation for modern London.

For some analysts here, the statue's mixed signals symbolize this anniversary year's uncertain meanings, calling it a monumental construction project conceded to foreigners and inaugurated in an April ceremony attended by heads of state like Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, both of whom have been the object of international scorn for their human rights records.

The nexus of that growth often comes down to real estate: Who owns it, who gets the sweet deals on it, who gets ousted, and who among Communist Party officials and their developer cronies pockets the big bucks from the infrastructure, business and residential projects that have turned China into a monumental construction site.

The "Future 2020" plan will be the first state-led push to build anything on a truly grand scale since the crash of 1997, which ended a monumental construction boom.This will also be a stimulus programme, so large as to trigger labour migration.