(1) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(2) Most of the main protest zone at Admiralty remains, although a small patch was cleared last week and protesters still hold a third site at Causeway Bay.
(3) [We] hope you aspire and live up to the same standards of critical independent journalism you demand of us.” Not all of those interviewed were critical of the broadsheet’s direction during their time at its Causeway Bay headquarters.
(4) Seeing Iran’s hand behind a legitimate popular opposition movement, Saudi Arabia sent tanks across its causeway with Bahrain to crush the uprising and to prevent Iran from establishing itself on Saudi Arabia’s eastern border.
(5) "Staying clear of flooded creeks, rivers and causeways could mean the difference between life and death," Neil Roberts, Queensland's emergency services minister, said.
(6) Logan was rescued from the water and taken to the Causeway hospital by helicopter but was pronounced dead.
(7) Gui was one of four members from Causeway Bay Books who disappeared over the last few months, sparking protests in Hong Kong against China’s security services which have been accused of carrying out the illegal abductions in order to silence critics abroad.
(8) There's no track across the wide curved causeway, so visitors are faced with a choice of routes over the rocks.
(9) What has happened to the five men has profoundly shaken Hong Kong’s book trade: Gui Minhai, owner of the Mighty Current publishing house and the Causeway Bay Books shop, remains in detention in mainland China after having disappeared from his holiday house in Thailand in October 2015, only to reappear in a tearful televised confession in January 2016 .
(10) Police had earlier warned the thousand or so people who remained that they would lock down the area and clear the site, with broadcasters announcing the imminent clearance of a secondary, much smaller protest zone at Causeway Bay.
(11) Sources of pollution include sewage, storm water runoff, faulty septic tanks, improperly constructed landfills, and obstruction by causeway bridges.
(12) However the ruins, on an island connected by a causeway accessible only at low tide, date from early in the 12th century.
(13) It was inspired by the Arthur C Clarke novel Childhood's End, and used a collage of photographs taken at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(14) Bahrain's rulers said the Saudi forces crossed the 16-mile causeway from Saudi Arabia to the island, together a contingent of troops from the Gulf Co-operation Council.
(15) Lui Por and Cheung Chi-ping, two clerks at Causeway Bay Books , the bookshop at the centre of the case, disappeared while on a visit to Shenzhen.
(16) One example is People’s Coffee and Books, also located in Causeway Bay, which doubles as a cafe.
(17) The aerial shots along the route – taking in the crenellated ruins of Dunluce Castle, the vertiginous Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, the basalt stacks of the Giant's Causeway, and the seaside villages of Ballycastle, Cushendun, Cushendall and Carnlough – will be a pleasant surprise for viewers who have an entirely different image of Northern Ireland.
(18) She was also asked about a women's rights protest she organised in 2006 on the King Fahd causeway and her 2009 attempt to cross to Bahrain without the approval of a male guardian.
(19) On Monday, they dismantled the last remaining protest site, a 100 metre swath of tents in the shopping district Causeway Bay.
(20) On Tuesday night, thousands of people gathered at three main protest sites – near government offices in the district Admiralty and on bustling commercial streets in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay – to watch a live broadcast of the dialogues projected on to big screens.
Jetty
Definition:
(a.) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
(n.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
(n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
(n.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
(v. i.) To jut out; to project.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bahrain, meanwhile, is picking up the lion’s share of the bill for the construction of a Royal Navy base, the Mina Salman support facility, which will include warehouses, a 300-metre jetty, accommodation, sports pitch and helipad.
(2) North of the main jetty and beach, the coast curves out towards a rocky headland, and the further you go, the more likely you are to have it to yourself.
(3) Can a rail line – which according to longstanding projections needs to be a 60m-tonnes-a-year operation to be viable – or a jetty be half built?
(4) On this, my fourth visit, Makoko is as I’ve always known it: the tiny “jetty” from which visitors and residents board dugout canoes into the labyrinths of the floating settlement; the grey-black sludge that passes for lagoon water; the tangle of boats impatiently slithering through the labyrinth of waterways, making the traffic of Makoko reminiscent of the notorious Lagos roads.
(5) Commander Gavin Edward, coordinating the ship’s arrival on the jetty at Taranto, southern Italy, said: “The speed with which the Italian Red Cross, police and government officials have received these survivors has been really impressive and as a result we should be able to set sail later this afternoon.” Inside the towering grey sides of the amphibious warship, the 450 members of the ship’s company were preparing to return to its search and rescue mission.
(6) The ship will dock at a refurbished oil jetty; chiefly, says Safe Haven, because using a pre-existing site made things much cheaper.
(7) "We can head over there and then skin down that long bank south of it and around past the jetties at the mouth and anchor in a little hook inside the rocks where it'll be calm.
(8) 2 Continue on the road with the launch jetties and lake on your right until the tarmac road runs out.
(9) But this small beast, tethered to a jetty at Faslane naval base, is a deadly one: it is one quarter of Trident , Britain's nuclear deterrent.
(10) The place where he asked me to marry him, by the water as the sun set, was the same jetty where we had sat under the full moon and begun our relationship.
(11) For it to become habitable again, the islanders will need a new jetty, houses, a water purification scheme and some form of employment, either fishing or a resumption of the coconut trade.
(12) The money will fund infrastructure construction – including the building of sea walls and jetties – at Faslane over the next 10 years, with most of the work expected to start in 2017.
(13) It was empty on Tuesday afternoon save for a lone fisherman at a jetty that was ringed by parked law enforcement vehicles.
(14) Borrow canoes, a dinghy or stand-up paddleboards from the floating jetty, or hang out in the sauna or the gardens.
(15) By the jetty, friendly Café Janoca (meals from €15) will overfeed you with pleasure.
(16) In the case of Abbot Point, dredging will be used to expand what is essentially a simple jetty jutting out into the sea into one of the world’s largest coal ports.
(17) Culatra feels like the start of a love affair right from the moment we nudge alongside its long slender jetty.
(18) Photograph: Alamy Felix sits on the jetty, legs swaying aimlessly a few feet above the water.
(19) One of the best places to moor is the jetty of this taverna in the bay of San Stefano.
(20) Ultimately, the US response to swarming will be to use American dominance in the air and multitudes of precision-guided missiles to escalate rapidly and dramatically, wiping out every Iranian missile site, radar, military harbour and jetty on the coast.