Sentence examples for to erect something from inspiring English sources

Shovels are poised to hit the ground this year on the first section of track, the latest advance in Brown's 32-year quest to erect something he believes befits the image of California as a "land of dreams".The near-term future of California's rail plans are looking up now that the appeals court has removed a major hurdle.

Nor is there much to disagree with in the claim that atheism was from the start "a constructive and creative phenomenon", not just concerned to tear down the old order but to erect something more enlightened and rational in its place.

One wanted the most money possible and got it from a builder bent on tearing down the old domicile to erect something bigger and better.

But this is no more, really, than saying that music in a major key makes you happy; it is a beginning, merely -- a foundation on which to erect something that is artful, and itself.

Perhaps the most derided part of Bloomberg's latter-term legacy are his strange and halting attempts to erect something of a nanny state, and a love for regulations that did enough to insult people's sensibilities without actually doing a whole lot of public good.

Realistically speaking, if you erect something in the middle of a city centre – whether it's a statue of a pig or a massive bauble – someone a few Stella Cidres deep will either try to sit on or kick the shit out of it.

At Glen Este High each day, cars pass the entrance where students have erected something of a shrine to Specialist Maupin with red, white and blue hearts and hundreds of yellow and white ribbons.

Don't know a blown diffuser from a blown engine and think pull-rod suspension might be something you'd use to erect a garden shed?

In the short trailer for the exhibition, above, Harvey eloquently articulates how his work creates a different conversation: "Rather than sort of collapsing in a kind of fit of wailing and gnashing of teeth and apologistic PC bull shit and bullocks, I try to pull out, erect, something that's a thing, and that's the most important thing.

When one of the Slovak papers, SME, tried to erect a pay wall on its own a few years ago — something that a growing number of newspapers are doing elsewhere — it failed miserably.

As people everywhere rush to transform the world, knocking down humble buildings in order to erect bigger ones, photographs, symbols of evanescence, may one day be the only proof that something else was ever there.