Sentence examples for platform pillar from inspiring English sources

A 20-year-old woman managed to save herself from falling in front of an approaching train only by keeping an iron grip on a platform pillar until an onlooker intervened, approaching the attacker from behind and kicking him, officials said.

That committee, now led by a Democratic party increasingly interested in breaking up big tech as a platform pillar, is a potentially powerful mechanism for antitrust action against the monopolistic power brokers that dominate the Silicon Valley we've come to know.

Hildegard Bechtler's design puts the action on a raised platform with pillars at the corners.

JC Penney has made platform thinking a pillar of its reinvention strategy.

The hotel has five suites installed on a raised platform with a pillar that weighs 18 tons and rotates on its very own.

It contains a stone platform raised on pillars, upon which he is said to have performed his devotions.

After three explosions crippled one of the oil platform's support pillars on Thursday, causing the 40-story rig to sink more than 13 feet, Petrobras has been frantically working to keep the $350 million rig afloat.

Simply explained, it's a platform with 16 pillars that emit sound from various heights allowing audiences to walk through soundscapes and artists like Biosphere, Vladislav Delay, and Pantha Du Prince have all performed unique compositions on this one-of-a-kind tool.

This curious monument is an underground vaulted hall containing a central platform with 10 monolithic pillars surrounded by a channel of water.

Saudi Arabia has made efforts to ease the flow of pilgrims since the 2004 stampede by widening ramps leading to the platform where the three pillars are located and by creating more emergency exits.

The platform, together with its pillars, roof and rear wall, were all made of cypress wood from the Kiso region of Japan, a wood especially prized because it is not disfigured by knotholes.