Sentence examples for much tower from inspiring English sources

Too much tower?

But the combination of high demand for property, a hunger for development in poor areas and a series of ministers and mayors more interested in promoting growth than in the city's skyline have led to much tower-building along the south bank of the Thames.

Those searching for the Sears Tower in Chicago are shown a satellite image of a neighbouring, much smaller tower.

An aircraft is an entirely inappropriate flight of imagination". Those searching for the Sears Tower in Chicago are shown a satellite image of a neighbouring, much smaller tower.

Critics opposed not so much the tower but public subsidies for the 2.1-million-square-foot project and the state's use of condemnation to gain control of the land.

But, he added, if the city and the exchange do go forward with the original $1.1 billion plan to build a new trading complex across the street from the historic home of the New York Stock Exchange, the project will include a much shorter tower, "so it won't be the tallest building in Lower Manhattan".

Inside, the large wall surfaces are broken only by 12 narrow windows on the east side, creating a contrast with the much brighter tower room which opens into the chancel with light entering from a window high on the east side of the tower.

They also look like the much-reviled tower blocks of the 1960s, except that the latter had more generous landscaping, and larger rooms than are likely in the new ones.

Though a tsunami's waves may be only centimetres high in mid-ocean, as they reach shallower coastal waters, they become slower perhaps 40kph or so but much higher, towering above the rooftops of buildings onshore.Even coastal defences built to withstand the strongest tropical storms may be little use when struck by a 10m wall of water.

The word carries so much weight, towers over so many other words, and infiltrates so many of our lives that we ignore how ridiculous and juvenile the word of the year sounds.

Hotel owner Jia Yuan USA Co. filed an application with the city in 2015 to demolish the nine-story Luxe and replace it with much taller towers — the same year that Wesson hosted the event for Bonin, Cedillo, O'Farrell and Price at the downtown hotel.