A plane tree, with its monumental root system, stands at the edge of the hotel in the well-tended front garden.
But grassroots movements are facing a monumental propaganda system in the form of the corporate news, a structure set up and funded to discredit alternative views and propel the interests of their moneyed owners.
Urban centers, multi-tiered settlement systems, monumental constructions, craft production, and elaborate exchange systems mark significant social changes that occurred during the period 1500 400 BC.
This will have the additional benefit of eliminating a monumental political patronage system.
His findings were embodied in the monumental work The Silurian System (1839).
After the War he served for three years as French cultural attaché in New York, while continuing work on a monumental study of marriage systems, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, which was eventually published in 1949.
It is also unjust to Matthiessen, with, for example, his (1995) monumental work on English systems, and Martin, with his (1992) and later work on discourse and genre, and on 'Appraisal Theory' with White (2005).
745), their successors, the Uighurs, perpetuated for a time the same kind of monumental dynastic epigraphy, the writing system of which is an offshoot of the Aramaic alphabet, presumably mediated by the Iranian-speaking Sogdians of Central Asia.
The emphasis is on what should be the most effective lighting system for the monumental sites, one respecting the ruins and the authenticity of the site, while at the same time bringing out their architectural, historical and symbolic significance.
Operating systems, the most monumental of all software constructions, are like medieval cathedrals: thousands of laborers toil for years on small parts of them, each one working by hand, fashioning zeros and ones into patterns that control switches inside microprocessors, which constitute the brains of a computer.
