He looked at them, one after the other, giant monoliths old and new, gargantuan towers assembled in the sky by human hands. |
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The ancient monoliths, pyramids, stone circles and grand statues were not just art or architecture. |
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The five explorers carefully crept through the ruins, past tall stone monoliths and crumbled walls. |
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Indeed, hoisting monoliths that could weigh many tons demanded gigantic rigs. |
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Seemingly unshakable totalitarian monoliths are in fact sometimes as cohesive as proverbial houses of cards, and fall just as quickly. |
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Many were based in the twin glass and steel monoliths that made up the tallest building in the city at the hub of Western capitalism. |
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In the midpoint of the large plateau at the hilltop are two enormous stone monoliths, stretching like limestone skyscrapers into the crimson sky. |
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The immense monoliths centered at the focal point of the photographs signify power and dominance. |
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The white monoliths of the towers are almost negative spaces, while the black surrounding them is luxuriously, expressively painted. |
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They're in there somewhere, but good luck picking them out from behind all those space-hogging skyscrapers and corporate monoliths. |
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Everywhere he looked twisted beams loomed up out of the sand like monoliths, the only remnant of a destroyed civilization. |
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When I approached the building, it sure didn't match the grand TV hospital drama-style towering monoliths of bustling health that I'd envisioned. |
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In between Wanee's dingy store and those new monoliths sits a line of shuttered shopfronts with for sale signs. |
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The new Bullring has replaced the concrete monstrosities and monoliths which dominated the city. |
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The division and splintering of local communities continues as the monoliths desperately seek to control and dominate. |
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Experts from Germany are investigating the use of a chemical to stabilise the stone monoliths, which have become severely eroded. |
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The struggle these days is between corporate monoliths and populations of workers. |
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He also sometimes treats his cultural contexts as monoliths, leading him to generalize across class and national boundaries. |
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On a basic level, the destruction of these austere cuboid monoliths on our skyline has provoked us to reflect on what buildings mean. |
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Six of these carved monoliths are enormous tombstones, from 17 to 37 meters tall, the tallest, now fallen, once stood at more than 30 meters. |
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These steeples are symbolic representations of the stone monoliths that once dotted the landscape of Europe. |
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The history of the area goes back much further than Byron, however, as the monoliths of Castlerigg Stone Circle testify. |
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It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths, huts and graves. |
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There he created the landscaped garden with temples, statues, grottoes, glades and a series of urns, columns, monoliths and headstones, many of them inscribed. |
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The misshapen monoliths were assembled down the side of a slight hill in the countryside beyond the town, not in a circle like Stonehenge, but staggered. |
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The monument's signature towering monoliths, spires, and steep canyons reflect millions of years of erosion, faulting, and tectonic plate movement. |
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Second, the dominance of broadcasting monoliths limits local programming, as the airwaves become saturated with national programs and syndicated fare. |
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Earlier this month, Potter set the record for the fastest ascent of Half Dome, one of Yosemite's iconic monoliths. |
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In Japan, moreover, the Internet is still dominated by the old industry monoliths. |
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The front has a front porch supported by six monoliths, the bell has a cone shape with a very large, while the tip is a cross of iron. |
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Along with the buildings came a still, gray haze, lingering stagnantly among concrete monoliths, pollution from China's economic ascent. |
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Rising vertically from the plains, some of these huge monoliths soar to a height of 400 metres, and the squat buildings on top of each appear to be hewn out of living rock. |
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The infrastructure comprises independent monoliths housing equipment and service bays. |
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It continues with stationary phase architecture: diffusive particles, perfusive particles, membranes and monoliths. |
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In preparation for summer, corporate monoliths like Sony and Warner Brothers try to market some essential singles that'll have all the low-riders bouncing until September. |
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For a brief time, a few years ago, I was employed as a temp at the Public Trust Office, one of the grey government monoliths that no one notices in Central London. |
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It is a vast field dotted with monoliths that are only roughly worked. |
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Other sites of interest on Eday include the Stone of Setter standing stone that dominates the col north of Mill Loch, and which at high is one of the tallest monoliths in Orkney. |
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In terms of raw material, the monoliths from this megalithic region are almost all of sandstone. With rare exceptions, the provenience of the sandstone is in an immediate geographic context. |
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Approach and guide walls: These structures are typically comprised of concrete monoliths or a combination of a concrete cap supported by either rock filled timber cribbing or rock filled steel sheet pile cells. |
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The MacArthur Lock upper approach wall at the Soo Locks was built in the 1940s with mixed construction types, including mass concrete gravity monoliths founded on rock as well as monoliths founded on timber cribbing. |
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At the end of the second odyssey, the expedition had discovered a lot of monoliths, and then those monoliths had gathered around surface of Jupiter and had exploded, making of the planet a new sun called Lucifer. |
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These large monoliths, called khatch-kars or 'cross-stones', often made from Armenia's native tufa stone, dotted the landscape. |
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Their rigid short monolithic polymeric columns are the first monoliths used on an industrial scale for the purification of proteins, DNAs and virus particles. |
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All that remains of the temple of Amenophis III are the colossi of Memnon, two impressive quartz monoliths that depict the pharaoh sitting on his throne, accompanied by the figures of his mother and his wife. |
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By then, today's cable monoliths could have evolved into lively competitors to Apple, Amazon, Google and others in a million-channel, fully searchable world of internet television. |
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Banks are in private hands, a good number of state monoliths have been closed or revamped, corruption may be less pervasive than it was in the earlier post-communist period. |
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Amongst the sites that your tour will likely take in are movie locations, 1000 foot monoliths, rug weaving, and, of course, the famous monuments are visited. |
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Also located in the forest and exposed to the south, the cliff takes the form of limestone monoliths ranging in height from 10 to 30 metres and spread over approximately 300 metres along the valley of the Doubs. |
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Some of those challenges have posed questions over the continuing relevance of the conventional view of public service broadcasters as state-owned and state-run monoliths often enjoying exclusive rights over the airwaves. |
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Seven huge, square monoliths make up each of the sides with another enormous stone that acts as the head. The whole structure is covered by five large slabs. |
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They, as much as anyone, reject the concept of restrictive monoliths. |
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Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her. |
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They erected raised ceremonial centres, sarcophagi, and large stone monoliths depicting anthropomorphic and zoomorphhic forms out of stone. |
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Monoliths doped with azurin were prepared adding the protein to the buffer solution to be mixed with the sol. |
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