Sentence examples for sustained demolition from inspiring English sources
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Harmony Korine's woozy, sleazy joyride through the college-caper genre amounts to a sustained demolition job on the squeaky-clean image of its stars, dispatching Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens on a vertiginous tour of the fleshpots of Florida.
England arrived here with the memory still lingering of the 30-point demolition they sustained two years ago and, though no one saw a repeat of that kind of ignominy, another loss for Stuart Lancaster's men would have sent them to a very dark place.
The women nevertheless outshone the men on day 10, although Ernests Gulbis sustained his eye-catching run with a stylish, serve-led demolition of Tomas Berdych that will give the world No2 Novak Djokovic plenty to ponder before their semi-final on Thursday.
Fortunately, the pitch of this girder was a few feet higher than the body of the engine itself, else it would have been torn from the abutments of brickwork which sustain it, involving the demolition of a large portion of the roof of the building, with the probable destruction of every person in the train.
A20 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 Ground Zero Safety Record Surpasses Most Work Sites Federal records show that only 35 of the 1,500 workers who have spent three million hours helping clear the trade center site since Sept. 11 sustained serious injuries, none considered life threatening, making the site far less dangerous statistically than the average demolition site.
In a remarkably broad show of defiance in a conservative heartland, thousands of people have poured into the streets in a sustained series of protests that have grown stronger in the face of a political leadership that refuses to stop the demolition.
Sarah Wise's meticulously researched excavation of this forgotten corner of ignominy is at times heavy-going, but by setting individual stories against the social and political conditions that created and sustained Victorian slums she breathes life into the squalid reality of the Old Nichol and the events that eventually led to its demolition.
Diasporas have sustained us.
Justice Michael Obus sustained it.
