Decorative Granite

The washbasin is made of granite.

Goods taxed at high rates (for example, polished granite) are sold as goods taxed at lower rates (for example, as unpolished granite).

The most common type of rock is granite.

Granite Shoals is a city in Burnet County, Texas, United States.

Granite is a city in Grant County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.

The original plan was to perform the carvings in granite pillars known as the Needles.

Philipsburg is a town in and the county seat of Granite County, Montana, United States.

A stronger and safer financial system is the bedrock of a successful economy.

So a more concrete undertaking, one that preserves South Korea s bedrock security concerns, is needed.

It is the economic hub of southern Espírito Santo, being the most important producer of marble and granite in Brazil.

Politicians, generals, and jurists could not rise above myopic concerns to build the bedrock for a new republic.

The United Nations is both the bedrock of and the indispensable tool for building an effective multilateral system.

That model was transferred to many other countries, and became the bedrock on which modern financial stability was built.

This suggests that governing principles and sturdy political institutions, not powerful individuals, have become the bedrock of Mexican governance.

Thousands of miles from the bloody fields of France, 26 young New Zealanders who died there are remembered on a granite cross.

The tower is built out of 362 pieces of cut granite which some claim represent the 362 days of the lunar year.

It rests on a bedrock of good governance and the rule of law in other words, a well performing state.

There is simply no set of bedrock principles on which one can base calculations that illuminate real world economic outcomes.

Those ugly and disruptive forces are having a severe impact on the bedrock of humankind's core values and human civilizations.

These are precisely the people needed to help foster a vibrant middle class the bedrock of a stable democratic market economy.

Any transition to peace may well prove ephemeral unless policymakers make political reconciliation and integration not optimal economic policies the bedrock priority.

The dictionary is not carved out of a piece of granite, out of a lump of rock. It's made up of lots of little bits.

The last of the corridor are horizontal and lead to the granite paneled door of the burial chamber, located under the tip of the pyramid.

In addition to oil shale and limestone, Estonia also has large reserves of phosphorite, pitchblende, and granite that currently are not mined, or not mined extensively.

Mainstream thinking, known as the Chinese School, insists, with the government, on Marxism with Chinese characteristics as the bedrock principle of China s foreign policy.

Investments in infrastructure and human capital are the bedrock for increasing average productivity and for ensuring high growth over a sustained period of time.

These are quartz crystals and feldspar, so most sand in the world on the mainland is made of quartz crystal and feldspar. It's the erosion of granite rock.

In general, this occurs near volcanic activity, but can occur in the deep crust related to the intrusion of granite, or as the result of orogeny or metamorphism.

Education is the bedrock for progress and educated women will empower Africa, so the focus now must be on those countries that are failing to close the gap.

On this bedrock rose an imposing edifice of bond markets and banks that drove down the cost of finance, and thus sped up the rate of economic growth.

Amongst the new finds were foundations of rooms, ceramics of Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Protochristian periods, and protohelladic II in the exterior foundations of Hellenikon above the bedrock.

The high temple is also remarkable for the variety of building materials used for its construction, from the alabaster and basalt floors to the fine limestone and red granite of the walls.

And they must work to uphold the bedrock principles of the global economy that have served it and them so well in the last 60 years non discrimination and multilateralism.

That is why decisions on fundamental issues should be based on the broadest possible agreement among Member States and on the bedrock of international law the Charter of the United Nations.

Notes the Special Rapporteur's concern that the situation of the independence of judges and lawyers, which is the bedrock of the rule of law, remains delicate in many parts of the world

Maintaining the false label of communism while reviving capitalism and insisting that Mao, for all his mistakes and crimes, was 70 correct is the bedrock of the moral corruption that afflicts China today.

While State sovereignty has been a cornerstone of international relations and the foundation of the Charter, many participants expressed their unease about the possibility that ambiguous definitions and norms could undermine that bedrock.

Second geological expedition, November 1911 February 1912 This was a continuation of the work carried out in the earlier expedition, this time centring on the Granite Harbour region approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of Butter Point.

I am passionate about the American landscape and how the physical form of the land, from the great Central Valley of California to the bedrock of Manhattan, has really shaped our history and our character.

The 2004 TCPR emphasized that funding of operational development activities for the United Nations system should focus on long term development and that core resources continue to be the bedrock of United Nations operational activities.

Reiterates that regular resources are the bedrock of UNFPA and are essential to maintaining the multilateral, neutral and universal nature of its work and encourages UNFPA to continue to mobilize supplementary resources for its programmes.

Nowadays, however, Britain s government itself seems to be forgetting the bedrock conditions of this British model by trying to satisfy the desire of particular communities for public recognition by officially promoting things like state subsidized denominational schools.

Clinton s visit was important not only for its reaffirmation of America s bedrock commitment to security in Asia and the eastern Pacific, but also because it exposed to all of Asia a fundamental contradiction at the heart of Chinese foreign policy.

Indeed, it is patently clear from his own words that Yanukovich does not accept the legitimacy of the Orange Revolution, which means that he does not accept the bedrock principle of democracy that you cannot cheat your way to power.