How To Use Demolishing In A Sentence
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Yet more are removing rubbish, refurbishing hotels and demolishing or concealing unsightly buildings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The example proved that reducing cut - depth for demolishing building based on blasting method is applicable.
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Demolishing slum areas and constructing apartment buildings for former slum dwellers has never been a success in helping the poor.
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He can't nip off to the pub without someone demolishing first his house and then his planet.
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The promptness of the administration when it comes to demolishing our houses and arresting us is admirable.
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The plans include converting a barn into two homes, transforming another barn into two garages and demolishing other agricultural buildings.
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Bleak as it is, it is not the book of a disenchanter; and in writing it Crace was not simply proclaiming his adherence to a scientifically informed world view or crudely demolishing the concept of an afterlife.
Homo Erectus
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He was known to be a terror for demolishing opponents in public disputations.
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Access to the cash that power brings, completely deranged and satisfying “investigations” that both dehumanize the opposition and give that warm fuzzy feeling of standing up for “principle” (no one is above the law — even, or especially those who have done nothing in its violation) and, best of all, they get to go on demolishing any hope of using government power to solve any actual problem out there.
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A strong case would have to be made for demolishing it, but it is certainly both possible and desirable.
Times, Sunday Times
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I came to Glasgow with high expectations because I've been demolishing players in practice.
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That the demolishing logic of chavismo has gained its biggest political success by infecting the entire nation with doubt as to the purpose of the voting act, precisely by using it, abusing of it, lowering it to the abject function of being a simple legitimating instrument, abusing of its majority and gutting it of its meaning and of its function as a mechanism or representation and alternativeness?
Electoral registry irregularities and Perez Oramas on the uselessness of voting
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We abandoned it to them, demolishing the protective mole that we had begun to build before leaving.
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These copies were found as we checked the rooms for the final time before demolishing the building.
The Sun
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A storm moved directly over the island, demolishing buildings and flooding streets.
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He added that replacing the store would require demolishing the current building, but the company would endeavour to keep trading throughout.
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No one seemed to worry that they were demolishing unreplaceable objects, ruining things that were best left untouched.
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Demolishing and re-erecting it 7ft wider would cost £440,000, but repairing it in its original state would cost another £32,000.
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In 1989, construction workers demolishing an office building accidentally uncovered the foundations of the Rose theatre.
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Mercedes on a hypogean joyride and demolishing it.
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With this view commissioners were sent in January 1641 into every county "for the defacing, demolishing, and quite taking away of all images, altars, or tables turned altarwise, crucifixes, superstitious pictures, monuments, and reliques of idolatry out of all churches and chapels.
History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660
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The old flophouses were stinking lice-ridden hellholes with naught but chicken wire and cardboard to segregate the occupants; demolishing these places was seen as a great civic good.
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He retired to the far side of the kiosk, demolishing the sticky buns and gulping coffee while he watched the approach road from the village.
CORMORANT
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Far from being liberators, the Piedmontese administrators who came in the wake of the Risorgimento behaved like Yankees in the post-bellum Southern States; they ruled The Two Sicilies as an occupied country, systematically demolishing its institutions and industries.
Garibaldi didn’t unite Italy « Isegoria
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Meanwhile, the first steps toward demolishing the Balikpapan refinery complex were underway.
The Prize
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These copies were found as we checked the rooms for the final time before demolishing the building.
The Sun
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A spokeswoman for Sheffield Council said the overall aim was to regenerate the area by demolishing housing in a poor condition in areas of deepening social exclusion.
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He also makes short work of demolishing the argument about the capital and funding synergies enjoyed by universal banks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The town councillor said although civic leaders would have rather seen the former cinema turned into a leisure facility, she was not against demolishing the building.
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The grant will allow the council to begin filling in the South Bay Pool, demolishing derelict buildings and terracing the slopes.
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After demolishing theirs, it became apparent that ours was in a perilous condition and he very kindly offered to help remedy the situation.
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The serene self-belief she had when demolishing every opponent in her path during the first three months of this year is gone, replaced by sloping shoulders, a down-turned mouth and an air of irritated resignation.
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Later that night, our group sought refuge from misery by demolishing a hand-rolled doobie the size of a Cuban cigar.
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The trust now says the only way to keep the theatre running is to construct a new building, which means demolishing the playhouse.
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Even their convincing five-try win over Japan was blemished by the sight of their smaller opponents demolishing their scrum, pushing them downfield with rolling mauls and causing turnover after turnover.
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One later said later it was like being in a rally car as Stubbs entered a roundabout at speed and skidded into a traffic bollard, demolishing it.
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A weakened Hurricane Felix is chugging across Nicaragua after demolishing homes and forcing thousands to flee.
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He also makes short work of demolishing the argument about the capital and funding synergies enjoyed by universal banks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plans comprise demolishing the pub and building seven three-bedroom houses, a four-storey block of eight, two-bedroom flats and a two-storey block with a flat and car park.
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Yet more are removing rubbish, refurbishing hotels and demolishing or concealing unsightly buildings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 12-year-old from Kingston, Jamaica, showed no mercy in demolishing words like "" daedal '' (intricate) and "" parrhesia '' (frank speech).
A Daedal Test Of Parrhesia
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What has not been properly considered is the option of demolishing it and building a replica in its place.
Times, Sunday Times
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A storm moved directly over the island, demolishing buildings and flooding streets.
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This would involve combining the ground floors of the town hall and Wiltshire College into one open plan area, and demolishing the current stairway to the mayor's parlour.
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The big question everyone in town is asking, when are they going to start work on demolishing the derelict buildings?
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I shrugged and sat beside him, focusing on demolishing my ice cream.
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The idea of saving the Sagaponack four-square house arose in January 2009, when the owner of the subdivided farm went to the village architectural and historic review board to discuss the possibility of demolishing the building as well as several barns and a 19th-century cottage on the site of a farm.
Farmhouse Has New Lot in Life
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They include demolishing internal walls to expand into the three units along Manor Lane, which the shop owns, and display windows will be fitted.
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He holds the world record for conkers by demolishing 306 in an hour, but has not yet won the Irish title.
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Some lawyers are successful in the elenchical mode of argument -- to use a logical term -- that is, in demolishing the structure of their opponents, while they fail in the deictic, that is, in raising on its ruins an impregnable fabric of their own; but it was difficult to decide which process was the most thorough in the reasoning of Tazewell.
Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
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They suggest raising the proposed buildings on the site and demolishing and remodelling the existing stone flood barrier on the banks of the Aire to ease the flow in times of flooding.
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A strong case would have to be made for demolishing it, but it is certainly both possible and desirable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet more are removing rubbish, refurbishing hotels and demolishing or concealing unsightly buildings.
Times, Sunday Times
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An immense amount of effort went into demolishing one small myth.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said plans for the site would not necessarily include demolishing the buildings or cutting down the trees.
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But parts of the eighteenth-century limestone doorcases were ‘not entirely original’ which would ‘allow for a more flexible approach to either demolishing them or allowing them to be dismantled for re-use elsewhere’.
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In response, the army launched a military assault on the facility in which the men were being held, demolishing parts of the building.
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Bulldozers have begun demolishing the terrace in front of the bowling green in readiness for the building of a members' long room and 36 executive boxes.
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Here's a brief quote from one of the short 'reviews': 'Kate Atkinson's funny, furious fourth novel rumbustiously drives a path through the genre of detective fiction, demolishing its careful, forensic summations of human behaviour and replacing them with bloody, believable, vigorous tales of wrongdoing and loss, of personal eccentricity and recognisable fate, and most importantly of people who were very much alive before they were dead.'
Kate Atkinson: Case Histories
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A resentful answer was rising to the tongue of Camilla, when she perceived her two little sprigs, which in her recent disorder she had dropt, were demolishing under the feet of Indiana, who, with apparent unmeaningness, but internal suspicion of their giver, had trampled upon them both.
Camilla
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An immense amount of effort went into demolishing one small myth.
Times, Sunday Times
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My grandparents spent most of their money on demolishing two wings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two planes ploughed into New York's landmark - World Trade Center, demolishing the twin 110 - story towers.
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They were fabulous company and we had a very good evening with them, eventually heading for the dortoir about 9pm, leaving the guardienne eating fondue with two friends, and demolishing several bottles of wine after which the friends presumably drove back down the hill, dispelling the stereotype that the Swiss are all obsessively law-abiding.
Day 7 – Bonatti to Gite la Lechere
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Far from being liberators, the Piedmontese administrators who came in the wake of the Risorgimento behaved like Yankees in the post-bellum Southern States; they ruled The Two Sicilies as an occupied country, systematically demolishing its institutions and industries.
Garibaldi didn’t unite Italy « Isegoria
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The second incident involved the coaster Lara which collided with a mooring post and navigation light at the entrance to Alexandra Dock, demolishing the light.
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A storm moved directly over the island, demolishing buildings and flooding streets.
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There can be an exemption where the buyer will be demolishing the property.
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To quell resistance, air strikes and artillery barrages were called in, largely demolishing the town.
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NSW Sugar Milling Co-operative has proposed demolishing several existing buildings and building an electricity generator powered by bagasse, waste from crushing sugar cane and trash, the green tips of sugar cane.
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The truck came to rest on its side in the car park, after demolishing a telegraph pole and shedding half its load of soya.
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They were due to start demolishing the old theatre today but there's been a last-minute stay of execution.
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A storm moved directly over the island, demolishing buildings and flooding streets.
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‘I agree, but I can't help thinking that demolishing the barracks is an added risk to the whole endeavor.’ ‘Rather,’ concurred Gavin.
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In 1989, construction workers demolishing an office building accidentally uncovered the foundations of the Rose theatre.
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He gassed on about how much he'd been chatting with him lately, how the two men were looking forward to working hand in hand - never mind his rhetoric about demolishing Albanys culture of dysfunction.
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Some lawyers are successful in the elenchical mode of argument ” to use a logical term ” that is, in demolishing the structure of their opponents, while they fail in the deictic, that is, in raising on its ruins an impregnable fabric of their own; but it was difficult to decide which process was the most thorough in the reasoning of Tazewell.
Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon Littleton Waller Tazewell
