Its structure, engineered by Arup, rises up a great steel stalk in the centre and then spreads into a tree-like canopy of intersecting branches, before descending into a ring of supports at the circumference.
Even the hastily arranged Gulf vacation itself was more of a placation, as in placating those who complained his family time off had not included the BP besieged Gulf shores, making his ringing words of support ring hollow.
A federal judge in 2013 rejected the suit's claims of "federal overreach" with a ringing declaration of support for the Clean Water Act that, as the judge's ruling put it, "envisioned a strong federal role" in reducing pollution.
Open image in new window Fig. 8 Toe slings attached to a metatarsal ring for support of the metatarsophalangeal joints.
A 38-foot-wide hexagonal ring of floats supports a strong, light cylindrical net weighted at the bottom.
A ring of steel supports around the base seems to hold the entire facade up in the air, and one enters the building by walking beneath it.
Lampreys have a round, suckerlike jawless mouth filled with rows of horny teeth, and a rasplike "tongue". (See picture at right) An internal ring of cartilage supports the rim of the mouth.
But in its place sits one of the great architectural ripostes of New York, a lugubriously postmodern but definitely Classical folly, a circular, roofless ring of masonry supported by pairs of columns.
At large deformations, the membrane behaviour of the affected slabs, consisting of a peripheral compressive ring of concrete supporting tensile membrane action in the central region, represents an important line of defence against progressive collapse.
The stabilization of blebs would have been facilitated by the evolution of an outer ring of nucleoporins supporting a second area of positive curvature on the outside of the cell wall, giving rise to the partial inside-out symmetry of the NPC.
