(1) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
(2) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
(3) A bulldozer on rail wheels purrs up on the other line and begins pawing at the stones.
(4) Three decades before, her father had driven bulldozers in Vietnam for the US army.
(5) But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants to bulldoze things, gets in my way.
(6) There's also a new edict from the central forestry ministry whereby communities will be able to bulldoze up to a fifth of the forest in their locality for agriculture or plantation use.
(7) The patient, a bulldozer-operator, worked in Africa for a long period in extremely dusty conditions without any protection.
(8) Maybe they’d be a good team because sometimes you need a really strong man in there who bulldozes things.
(9) Scotland remains the only country not to teach its own children its history, and the built heritage has been neglected, bulldozed or shunned by politicians fearing anything that might be construed as “too nationalistic”.
(10) When we reached Sanjiang, in Zhejiang province, an elderly woman was angrily telling the pastor how at the end of April police dispersed members of her congregation and neighbouring ones who had come to protect their new Protestant church from being bulldozed .
(11) It could easily have been 2-0 before half-time, the human bulldozer that is Anichebe firing over the bar as he turned in front of goal and Mirallas having a header diverted over by Kolo Touré.
(12) Despite community efforts, supported by Amnesty International, the bulldozers rolled into Oombulgurri last month.
(13) After Unprofor approval,” says Van der Wind, “the fuel was delivered in Bratunac [the Bosnian Serb HQ outside Srebrenica] after the arrival of a logistical convoy.” The UN petrol was used, he says, to fuel transport of men and boys to the killing fields, and bulldozers to plough the 8,000 corpses into mass graves.
(14) All Lord Ashcroft has succeeded in doing is driving the bulldozer over his own foot.
(15) Correa says the bulldozers could be starting work within weeks," said Kelly Swing, professor of environmental science at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito and director of the Tiputini research station on the edge of the Yasuní park.
(16) According to the Palestinian Ma’an news agency , several Israeli bulldozers entered the southern Gaza Strip early on Thursday overflown by drones, which would fit with the timeframe described by the Israeli military.
(17) In the end, though, Dahl’s darker sensibility caves to Spielberg’s, whose kinder, gentler tendencies, overheated visuals and soaring John Williams scores have been known to bulldoze over many a project (think: Tintin, Hook, The Color Purple, War Horse).
(18) We will be looking carefully at the inspector’s decision before deciding the next steps.” Michael Hammerson of the Highgate Society, which opposed the scheme, said the ruling showed that when the super-rich “own something as important as a valued historic building in one of London’s most important conservation areas, and overlooking London’s most important open space, then they cannot use their money to try and bulldoze their way through the planning system”.
(19) That cannot happen in remote tiny communities, it cannot.” “We’ll consult, there’s not going to be a bulldozer-type mentality, and we’re going to determine which communities continue to get those municipal services, and probably better services, but it’s not going to be 282.” “Bulldozer-type mentality” is not a metaphor in the Kimberley – in September the WA government began demolishing buildings left in Oombulgurri, an eastern Kimberley community that was forcibly closed in 2011.
(20) Subjects were 184 power shovel operators, 127 bulldozer operators, 44 forklift operators as operator groups, and 44 office workers as a control.
Excavator
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(2) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
(3) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
(4) The proximal tibial metaphyses of ten New Zealand white rabbits were excavated and filled with sheets of polyvinyl alcohol, into which a suspension of B. fragilis cells was injected on the right side, while saline was used on the left side.
(5) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
(6) And it is allowed to deal in gold not excavated from the ground according to the well-known aharia frameworks with immediate effect.
(7) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
(8) The injury begins as a small nodule with a keratotic innermost part that rapidly is excavated, grows centrifugally, appearing as a new lesion, an expansion of the primary one, in the posterior higher region, with the same characteristics.
(9) The purpose of this paper is to present a Mediaeval skeleton of an approximately 16 year old boy, which was excavated at a Danish cemetery containing ca.
(10) Huang Ren Zhong's striped parasol stands out against the muddy cliff of excavated earth.
(11) No matter how "sophisticated" they may seem to have become, contemporary methods for bioplanimetry of the optic disc vary in precision; easily overlooked or neglected optical influences must, indeed, be taken into consideration; and, of greatest detriment to the meaningfulness of any and all such results is the fact that even "experts" have difficulty in uniformly and reproducibly indicating where the boundaries of the optic disc and its excavation actually lie.
(12) The dissident Gleb Yakunin excavated evidence from the KGB archives in the 1990s that fingered high-ranking priests as KGB agents, including the former head of the church, Aleksei II, and the current, Patriarch Kirill I.
(13) Prolonged respiratory assistance by positive pressure ventilation via cuffed tracheostomy or endotracheal tube can be complicated by mucosal erosions, tracheal stenosis, tracheomalacia, excavation of the tracheal wall with loss of tissue and tracheoesophageal fistula.
(14) Eleven human optic nerves from subjects in different decades ranging from the fifth to the ninth were investigated with the silver carbonate method to establish the pattern and frequency of age changes within the optic nerve head and their relationship with the glaucomatous excavation.
(15) Such differential mineralization points on physiological and pathological processes in bone and teeth, and is frequently conserved both in excavated skeletal remains and in cremations.
(16) Israel has said demolishing tunnels is the principal goal of its ground operation and it has released footage showing tunnels being demolished by excavators and air strikes.
(17) All these results provide a good basis for the assumption that, in glaucoma, the main factor producing restriction of the field of vision and excavations of the papilla is defective irrigation of the papillary vessels, originating in the choroid membrane, with chronic ischemia of the papilla.
(18) The excavation method allowed for a complete elimination of the decayed dentinal tissue down to the hypermineralized zone.
(19) Alfred, a student of the “father of American anthropology” Franz Boas , gathered and preserved information about native peoples and traditions in California, excavated archaeological sites in Mexico and Peru, and some years before his daughter’s birth had briefly practised as a psychoanalyst.
(20) Excavations in the Dakotas, prior to the closure of the Missouri River dams, yielded much information on demographics, anomalies, and epidemiological patterns for specific abnormalities in prior inhabitants of the area over several centuries.