Sentence examples for ruins under from inspiring English sources
5 p.m. 8) RUINS UNDER GLASS One of the best spots for exploring Valencia's history is at the museum L'Almoina (Plaza de Décimo Junio Bruto; 34-962-084-173; valencia.es/almopened which opened three years ago in the Carmen on the site where Valencia was founded by the Romans in 138 B.C. Visitors walk over glass floors, looking down at a stunning assemblage of ruins excavated in the area.
City officials have preserved the ruins under one roof.
In the past days, Islamic State's advance into Syria has brought Palmyra's splendid ruins under its control.
The roads are still neatly symmetrical, but the buildings in block after block lie in smouldering ruins under a hazy sky.
Lorrain, the master of magnificent ruins, added scenes featuring prostitutes and their madams into his paintings, while Van Poelenburgh, painted a man pissing on Roman ruins under the sad gaze of an antique statue.
Surviving civilians, still terrified, welcome coalition soldiers as liberators, but gesture — numbly yet insistently — toward ruins under which loved ones lie buried.
Constantly being worked on, ceaselessly eroding with time, it is a colossal piece of conceptual architecture: a Gothic ruin under construction.
But with memories of civil war and economic ruin under the Sandinistas still lingering, Mr. Ortega's bid for power frightens many.
The Borrowers Facing Ruin Under a Pile of Fees First Alliance says it charges high fees because its borrowers have less-than-perfect credit records and are more likely to default on their loans.
Almost every square of the Latvian capital has a story to tell, whether it is the chi-chi Bergs Bazaar shopping district, established in the 19th century but left to ruin under Soviet ownership and recently revived; or the Unesco-protected Art Nouveau district.
Using the sociological concept of narratives, the Article shows how parents who have most internalized narratives of self-sufficiency are particularly at risk of financial ruin under the new regime.
