(1) The following year, JFK was killed in Dealey Plaza, becoming the lost father to a grieving nation.
(2) The 1,127 killed at Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar are among at least 1,800 Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed in fires or building collapses since 2005.
(3) "Anniversaries should be to celebrate good things, not something like Rana Plaza."
(4) After years of foot dragging, three global agreements have emerged in an attempt to improve matters since the Rana Plaza tragedy in April.
(5) WEEKEND GETAWAY Côte d'Azur TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The spring tasting menu at Alain Ducasse's restaurant at the Plaza Athénée will set you back €360 ($520).
(6) Last year retailers sourcing garments from Bangladesh faced similar calls to quit the country following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.
(7) Women also make up the majority of the 5,000 people – disabled survivors and families of victims – who are still owed compensation by the brands that used Rana Plaza.
(8) This week, another UK event will focus on those left in poverty by Rana Plaza.
(9) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.
(10) Clothing retailers River Island and Matalan have signed up to a factory safety deal in Bangladesh after pressure from campaigners in the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed more than 1,000 factory workers.
(11) Many debate where the blame lies for tragedies such as Rana Plaza, and argue over who has the responsibility to prevent them in the future.
(12) Women whose children and grandchildren had disappeared organized themselves as Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo to search for their missing loved ones.
(13) At about 10.30pm last night we received multiple calls about shots being fired from inside the plaza,” police chief John Mina told reporters.
(14) This is why it’s so important to name those responsible and not leave it as if this is an a-historic massacre.” Zedconte, 26, works as a consultant in Guadalajara Protest reach Plaza de la Liberacion in Guadalajara Protestors sit around an improvised podium where student victims and missing names where remembered.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shahorbanu, whose son Siddique was killed in the Rana Plaza collapse.
(16) On Saturday afternoons there is outdoor dancing at nearby Plaza de Danzón.
(17) The independent Plaza Art Cinema is a favourite of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
(18) She said Trump made advances on her, including groping her under the table during a dinner the following night at the Plaza Hotel.
(19) Two years after Rana Plaza, have conditions approved in Bangladesh’s factories?
(20) Prior to Rana Plaza there had already been a string of disasters in Bangladesh’s garment industry, culminating in the Tazreen factory fire that killed 112 people six months earlier.
Tower
Definition:
(n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
(n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
(n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
(n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
(n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
(n.) High flight; elevation.
(v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
(v. t.) To soar into.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) Alton Towers has a long record of safe operation and as we reopen, we are committed to ensuring that the public can again visit us with confidence.” A spokesman for the park said that said that X-Sector, the high-octane section of that park where the Smiler is based, would remain closed until further notice.
(3) Taken together, her procedural memory on learning tasks, such as "Tower of Hanoi" and mirror drawing, was intact.
(4) Hope was living in a disused council building in Tower Hamlets, east London, and, by maintaining a physical presence on site, providing services for a property guardian company called Newbould Guardians.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An aerial view of the stricken Dharahara tower in Kathmandu.
(6) The question, then, is how she was able to secure the meeting at Trump Tower during a presidential campaign and why she was introduced to Trump Jr as representing the Russian government.
(7) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(8) Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on 16 June 2015, for an announcement many observers said would never come: the celebrity real estate developer, who had flirted with running for office in the past, would announce that he was launching his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
(9) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
(10) Vauxhall Tower Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.
(11) Another candidate is a 166m cylindrical tower that was constructed in the 1970s in Zamalek, Cairo’s elite island, but has remained empty since.
(12) Here, we give our verdict on 10 new towers, built and imminent, counting down to the very worst offender … 10.
(13) The government will keep a “close eye” on Kensington and Chelsea council, Sajid Javid has said, as pressure mounts for the local authority to be taken over by commissioners following its much-criticised conduct in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
(14) The world's tallest broadcasting tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, has opened to the public.
(15) Four floors in a twenty-story tower are devoted to library services, and each floor is described.
(16) Michael Rouse, 54, from Penge, south-east London, who was visiting his father at the Tower Bridge care centre in Bermondsey, said he had not been told anything about the company's difficulties.
(17) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
(18) There are also what Peter Rees, who spent 29 years as the City of London Corporation’s chief planning officer, calls “safety-deposit boxes in the sky” – towers of flats whose main purpose is not to make homes or communities, but units of investment.
(19) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
(20) We deplore the proposal of the secretary of state Eric Pickles to “take over” the democratically elected council in Tower Hamlets ( Report , 5 November).