Sentence examples for toward erecting from inspiring English sources

But there was also a general dawdling, and by mid-2000 Greece had done so little toward erecting or rehabilitating venues for the Games that the International Olympic Committee began venting its angst.

The city, uncharacteristically integrated for a southern metropolis, crept north toward Lake Pontchartrain, erecting many neighbourhoods either legally or financially off-limits to black residents.

Heading west, these likeminded pioneers traded paintbrushes for heavy machinery, creating gashes in the ground, erecting structures and manipulating the very landscape toward their own sometimes difficult-to-define goals.

And in 1910, the college began erecting the tall, ornamental iron fence around campus that became a symbol of its aloof posture toward the city.

Japan is erecting superlevees.

The stations are also talking to the Bloomberg administration about erecting a less expensive temporary tower on Governors Island, for which they have offered to pay $8 million a year in rent and to make an unspecified contribution toward the construction of Freedom Tower.

Monasteries are erecting new buildings.

It has avoided erecting a paywall.

By erecting paywalls, the psychological economics change.

Along with the well-documented trend toward "McMansions" -- the giant houses erected in groups in affluent neighborhoods -- has come the multicar garage, designed to hold three or more vehicles.

With that, she turned and as suddenly as she had come walked with her head erect down the path toward me.