Sentence examples for were first erected from inspiring English sources

The renovations involve exposing beans and brick to give the feeling of an earlier period when the buildings were first erected.

On the eastern side Ashur was washed by the Tigris, along which massive quays were first erected by Adad-nirari I (reigned c. 1295 c. 1264).

Since 1996, many of the buildings have undergone restoration using traditional materials and construction practices appropriate to the era in which the buildings were first erected.

This is Shanghai's Old Town, the traditional core of the Chinese city dating back to 1554, when walls were first erected to ward off Japanese pirates preying in nearby waters.

In fact, most of Britain's 55 surviving seaside piers have been rebuilt or remodelled more than once since they were first erected, not least in the years after the second world war, when fears that they might be used to land enemy troops in an invasion led to many being partly blown up.

They were first erected to stop Jews coming from eastern Europe.

Civil rights groups have fought for removal of the flag, which was first erected by segregationists at the height of the civil rights movement.

The genus Galaxaura was first erected by Lamouroux (1812).

Structure 5 (or Structure V) is a large building located on the plaza to the north of Structure 2. It was surrounded by 10 stelae, many dated to the 7th century AD although the building itself was first erected in the Preclassic period.

The cross was first erected in 1934 by private citizens to honor soldiers who died in World War I.

Prosaically enough the lovely thing has frequently been vandalised and was the subject of a concerted Nimby campaign when it was first erected a few years ago.