(v. t.) To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said he will pursue new measures, including demolishing the homes of instigators.
(2) Barriers protecting industry, manufacturing and agriculture were demolished.
(3) You know, it’s a Bolshevik kind of attitude: demolish everything,” she said.
(4) Their now demolished house stood in front of this strange feature.
(5) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
(6) The Saturday I visited, a steady stream of supporters, including six teams from Tottenham, London, and returnees from the previous week, arrived to leaflet in the near-steady stream of rain – demolishing the stacked boxes of leaflets at the campaign HQ.
(7) 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.
(8) Conspiracy theories, many put forward by Mohamed Al Fayed, former Harrods owner and father of Dodi Fayed , Diana's companion at the time, who was also killed in the crash on 31 August 1997, were demolished in the course of the much-delayed inquest, held in the high court between October 2007 and April 2008.
(9) Charleston church shooting: 21-year-old suspect captured as 'holy city' mourns Read more The Emanuel church as a wooden structure was built between 1865 and 1872, and was demolished by an earthquake in 1886.
(10) In 2004, Marvin Heemeyer , a 52-year-old welder and the victim of expropriation, drove a bulletproof tank into town and demolished a dozen municipal buildings before shooting himself.
(11) The Indian unit of the company hit a hurdle earlier this year when local authorities said they would demolish the plant , claiming it was built on village council land and was "illegal".
(12) Halifax District Hospital's Medical Library, Daytona Beach, Florida was altered from two dingy rooms to a modern, well-equipped Medical Library twice its former size by its maintenance men in six months time, with the help of the librarian's sketches and an architect student from the junior college to draw the plans.A complete renovation was done, eighteen-inch walls between rooms being demolished, plumbing, ceiling, and windows removed.
(13) In his first major speech in the US, the chancellor will attempt to demolish claims that a further five years of austerity will restrict growth and hurt workers' living standards.
(14) The unrest led to 450 police officers being injured and 70 buildings being demolished .
(15) Reconstruction of anatomical continuity of the arterial supply avoiding unnecessary operative demolishment is feasible.
(16) The PCC fails to demolish that claim, quoting the paper's current editor, Colin Myler: "Our internal inquiries have found no evidence of involvement by News of the World staff other than Clive Goodman."
(17) This time, however, her home was not under threat from Khmer Rouge guerrillas, but was instead demolished by armed construction workers, hired by a land development corporation to carry out one of the capital's most ambitious new property developments.
(18) Chelsea have really exciting plans for that stadium – to demolish the whole thing and build a new one on the existing site,” Dyke said.
(19) "No one demolished their tombs because the government is so weak," said Youssef.
(20) Large parts of TV Centre will be demolished after it is vacated by the BBC to make way for a redevelopment that includes a cinema, health club, restaurants and cafes, as well as offices and about 1,000 new homes including an unclassified amount of "affordable housing".
Establish
Definition:
(a.) To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
(a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
(a.) To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
(a.) To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
(a.) To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
(2) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(3) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(4) A backbench policy advisory group will be established to develop ideas.
(5) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
(6) Nasotracheal intubation has been well established as a method for maintaining an artificial airway in children.
(7) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
(8) Developing seminiferous tubules and interstitial cells were first seen on day 26, and were well established one day later.
(9) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
(10) To identify the NHE-1 protein and to establish its cellular and subcellular localization in the rabbit kidney, we prepared antibodies to a NHE-1 fusion protein.
(11) The structures of 1 and 2 were established mainly on the basis of nmr spectroscopic data.
(12) It was established that nonsurgical methods of transplantation with laboratory animals were less time-consuming and were more readily applicable.
(13) The haplotype of the recombinant X chromosome of each of 241 backcross progeny has been established using the X-linked anchor loci Otc, Hprt, Dmd, Pgk-1, and Amg and the additional probes DXSmh43 and Cbx-rs1.
(14) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
(15) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
(16) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(17) In 8 of 32 patients (25%) the diagnosis was established only at autopsy.
(18) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(19) We previously established that the binding constant (Ka) of this receptor site for the chemically synthesized model AGE, 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H- imidazole-butyric acid (FFI-BA), on cells of the mouse macrophagelike cell line RAW 264.7 is identical to that for AGE proteins.
(20) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.