They are not in the business of plundering the past, they are in the business of rescuing large lumps of history from the wrecking ball. |
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Now a wrecking ball looms over one of the last two buildings linked to the city's glory days. |
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In the Guinness book The Fairmount generated worldwide attention 20 years ago when preservationists rescued it from a wrecking ball. |
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The secondary school that was in existence since 1858 was demolished earlier this year but the memories did not crumble with the wrecking ball. |
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And as he witnessed more and more charming old buildings falling to the wrecking ball, he started to study Lutyens more closely. |
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The office block will soon face a wrecking ball as it and a clump of other buildings between it and Lombard Street come down. |
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His first shows were in Asbury Park, at a small run down Convention Hall that appeared destined for the wrecking ball. |
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The bathysphere, resting on two pieces of lumber, was a little bigger than a wrecking ball, with three steel-rimmed portholes. |
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Danny Boyle was going to have to come at me with a wrecking ball to break down the barriers of uninterest that I had erected. |
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But the wrecking ball looks, from the reader's perspective, to be Maria's own self-justifying narcissism. |
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However, when playgoers are asked to sit back and accept all that's not rational, the narrative wrecking ball makes a direct hit and everything comes crashing down. |
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In a country where stability is still fragile and requires careful tending, Ebola is a wrecking ball. |
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Most presidents put on a last-minute policy stamp, but in Mr. Bush's case it is more like a wrecking ball. |
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They want to study it further when in fact they want to do what the NDP used to use, which was the wrecking ball diplomacy type of action. |
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Travel back in time when Pharoahs once ruled the land. Destroy Egyptian temples with your powerful wrecking ball. |
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Because of the numerous structures surrounding the site, less controlled methods, such as implosion and wrecking ball demolition, were ruled out. |
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At a time when many of the past decades' urban renewal projects are facing the wrecking ball, Detroit's Lafayette Park continues to be a model of urban livability. |
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I watched the crane operator take a swing with the wrecking ball. |
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Sadly, such neighborhoods are fast disappearing in Shanghai, where tens of millions of square feet of old buildings fall victim each year to the wrecking ball. |
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The city's downtown buildings escaped the wrecking ball during the urban renewal craze of the 1970s and are now home to dozens of artists and galleries. |
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Richmond High School, pictured in 1953, now has a date with the wrecking ball after the new Richmond High opened its doors to students earlier this month. |
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The revitalization of the distillery is a boon to heritage advocates, who've lost many valuable structures in recent years, quite often to the wrecking ball. |
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Only yards away from the museum site on Little Horton Lane, the wrecking ball has been put to use as demolition of old buildings on the Broadway site progresses. |
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Blast your wrecking ball into the architecture of a once glorified temple, all for a new faith, and a new Pharoah. |
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The wrecking ball approach is simple: come in, destroy institutions, strike everything down and criticize. |
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The dailiness, even hourliness, of social media makes it a perfect vehicle for documenting each thump of the wrecking ball, each crunch of the backhoe. |
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I have often said in the past that we know the Prime Minister's career is winding down and this was a perfect opportunity for him to leave a legacy in health care after having taken a wrecking ball to it. |
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Their own Liberal chairman made an identical ruling on this matter in another committee but they are sending in the wrecking ball to justice committee. |
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After building a dining empire from scratch and saving five restaurants from the wrecking ball, Flo trades in her apron for a passport to paradise. |
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Using imagination and perseverance instead of a wrecking ball, Calgarians have created a space for art, linking a treasure from Alberta's early days to a vision for its second century. |
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Sledge hammer licking, naked on a wrecking ball and what seems to be a camel toe. |
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Later in the 20th Century, Pawtucket lost much of its architectural heritage to the wrecking ball, including the Leroy Theatre. |
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The wrecking ball wasn't needed, after all. |
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He smashed Denis Bakhtov inside two rounds to claim his first belt of the WBC International title and promoter Eddie Hearn claims his human wrecking ball is unstoppable. |
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The American singer, who attracted controversy by swinging naked on a wrecking ball in one of her music videos, will be playing at the Phones 4u Arena in Manchester in May. |
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The Wrecking Ball video, Ball video, W filmed on the prawn boat Caledonia, is one of a series of clips from the trawler making a splash online. |
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