Sentence examples for physical demolition from inspiring English sources

He received awards for Best Foreign-Language Film and for Best Cinematography for "Still Life," his drama about the social and physical demolition wrought by China's Three Gorges Dam.

Marion was an integral part of the early SoHo arts phenomenon and fully engaged in the fights to legalize loft living and to save the neighborhood from physical demolition.

The last days of the Berlin Wall — the protests in East Berlin in the autumn of 1989, and the first efforts at its physical demolition — are the backdrop of "Atomic Blonde," a mainly insubstantial and unengaging spy action-drama.

Redundant and nonoperational buildings at nuclear sites go through the process of 'decommissioning', involving decontamination of nuclear waste material and demolition of physical infrastructure.

A fully three-dimensional finite difference code is developed for simulating wave and fracture propagation in solids and it is used to study the physical process associated with blasting demolition of reinforced concrete (RC) structures on a PC basis.

Irina Bokova, head of UNESCO, the UN's cultural agency, has called the demolition "an attack against the physical evidence that peace and dialogue are possible".

Around four million Palestinians have known nothing but an existence defined by checkpoints, demands for identity papers, night raids, detentions, house demolitions, displacement, verbal abuse, intimidation, physical attacks, imprisonment and violent death.

Residents argued that the demolition and displacement of people represented both a direct physical impact on tenants and an indirect impact on their health and well-being.

Somehow, the physical Blake Griffin escaped being whistled for any fouls during the Clippers' 138-98 demofithen of the Golden State Warriors on Monday night in Game 2 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series at Staples Center.

I even hired some fly-by-night Brazilians for the initial demolition job, which included removing an obsolete chimney in precisely the physical space my staircase would have to occupy.

However, the quantitative arm of the current study found that residents living in neighbourhoods undergoing demolition experienced little or no short term effects on self-rated physical and mental health (Egan et al., 2013).