Nor can they be kept on bare concrete without straw or some other material that allows them to satisfy their natural instinct to root.

This is concrete.

I'd rather scrub floors first.

And if you're remodeling your house, take out all the carpeting and put in hardwood flooring.

Triangular pylons are supported by gravity base concrete piers founded at a waterdepth of some 300 m.

We took all that down, and we found beautiful wooden floors, whitewashed beams and it had the look while we were renovating this place, somebody said,

Anchors, which are gravity base concrete blocks, are founded at a waterdepth of some 60 m.

The helicopter continued and landed in Zenica on a concrete pad before radio warning could be issued.

We may well look askance at a lavish new concert hall, but not because the donor s name is chiseled into the marble façade.

Due to the normal expansion and contraction of concrete surfaces, the floors of the four mechanical equipment rooms in the Secretariat Building have suffered fatigue damage.

The Preparatory Committee for the World Summit for Social Development had a central responsibility in finding common grounds of analysis and fostering a spirit of consensus.

We took all that down, and we found beautiful wooden floors, whitewashed beams and it had the look while we were renovating this place, somebody said, You know, it really kind of looks like the hull of a ship.

Modern production systems, in which information technology plays an increasingly crucial role, are totally different from the large factory floors that characterized the birth of trade unionism and social democracy.

Rather, we should question whether, in a world in which 25,000 impoverished children die unnecessarily every day, another concert hall is what the world needs.

A giant crane strained to lift a 12 foot high slab, yanking it back and forth like some dinosaur gnawing its prey.

At the other end of the network, there'd be a server for people to send photos and messages to, accessible over the Web, combining a photo sharing service, social networking platforms and a collaborative filtering system.

Installation of a two metre chain link fence on concrete posts provided with double apron concertina wire perimeter as well as the necessary perimeter security light fixtures at Camp Khor and Al Abdaly

A total of 22 kilometres consist of an average width of 60 metres, with 8 to 9 metre high concrete slabs, forming a wall (mostly in urban areas such as in occupied Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Qalqiliya, and Tulkarm).38

37. The conceptual bridge solution proposed in the studies is a multispan suspension bridge with the main cables supported by triangular pylons on gravity base concrete piers, which is considered to be the most technically feasible solution with the present knowledge of the soil conditions.

Especially troublesome is Israel s construction of huge concrete dividing walls in populated areas and high fences in rural areas located entirely on Palestinian territory and often with deep intrusions to encompass more land and settlements.