(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.
Revetment
Definition:
(v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unwinding angles for the structurally related antimalarial drugs chloroquine and quinacrine have been determined with superhelical Col E1 plasmid DNA by applying the quantitative method developed by Vinograd and co-workers (Revet, B.M., Schmir, M. and Vinograd, J.
(2) 262, 4943-4946; Krämer, H., Niemöller, M., Amouyal, M., Revet, B., von Wilcken-Bergmann, B., and Müller-Hill, B.