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"retaining wall" Definitions
  1. a wall that is built to keep the land behind it from sliding

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Burtynsky was particularly interested in the project's ocean retaining wall.
The truck crashed into another vehicle and a retaining wall in Arlington.
He and Miller sat across from each other, nearest the retaining wall.
But the actual structure, which functions as a retaining wall, is concrete.
All my windows were blown in, the ceiling and retaining wall were collapsed.
A tree fell in the yard, damaging her fence, arbor and retaining wall.
He described extensive damage to a retaining wall and a turret at the castle.
It was a jeweled retaining wall barely holding back cascading black waves of hair.
There was no retaining wall to stop the dirt from flowing onto the sidewalk.
Problem is ... the neighbor thinks the easement went poof when Radnor destroyed the retaining wall.
Last year, a construction worker in Brooklyn was killed when a building's retaining wall collapsed.
The second I smashed into a retaining wall because I nodded off on a winding road.
There is a curved retaining wall with raised gardens and a pergola above a sitting area.
"I hid behind a retaining wall with three cops until they had me crawl out," Field said.
Outdoor space: The patio off the master is landscaped and surrounded by a blackened-steel retaining wall.
Some, such as vertical bulkheads (stone, concrete, or vinyl), are set against the shore like a retaining wall.
With a concrete retaining wall under the house and huge walls of ballistic glass, the house is tough.
Blaney hit the back of Newman, causing him to spin out and crash into the track's retaining wall.
Kucko says it's because that house has a retaining wall to, well, prevent slippery situations exactly like this one.
For Jews, the last remaining retaining wall of the Temple Mount platform, the Western or Wailing Wall, is sacred.
The tenement's retaining wall revealed centuries of colorful wallpaper and scarred brick zigzags where the stairwell used to be.
It is fronted by a hand-built retaining wall of bluestone slabs and has solid copper gutters and leaders.
His interest in chemistry began in childhood when he watched his father mix cement to repair a retaining wall.
The driver turned to look, and before he could turn back again, a retaining wall was inside of the car.
These days Jews mostly pray outside, at the base of the retaining wall, known as the Western Wall, or Kotel.
Apparently, the so-called "Ice House" has no retaining wall, leaving it vulnerable to the brunt of the lake's spray.
Dixon's car flew over the car of Jay Howard, another driver, and hit the retaining wall and shredding to pieces.
A wellhead incorporated into the thick retaining wall of the small patio revealed crystal clear water just below the surface.
Vizcaya's grounds were built on fill that had once been a mangrove swamp, now held back by a retaining wall.
The retaining wall that holds up her property along a steep hillside buckled and seemed on the verge of collapse.
In 2016, while foundation work was still being done on the mall, a retaining wall next to the expressway partly collapsed.
McKenna Woodhead, 14, was riding on a personal watercraft last week with a friend when they slammed into a retaining wall.
We've been updating it with news of, for example, the breach of one coal ash pond's retaining wall in North Carolina.
" The neighbor explains that the Obamas did add "a couple of feet of retaining wall in front to what was already there.
Fields are being raised above flood level, with a drainage system, a foot of clean soil, synthetic turf and a retaining wall.
A brick retaining wall at a construction site in Brooklyn collapsed on Wednesday afternoon, and one worker is feared dead, the police said.
Although the structure is 1,000 years old, visitors can still climb down the 200 steps lining the retaining wall to the pool below.
Small items like pieces of pottery or parts of a Nativity scene left behind on a retaining wall are sometimes all that's left.
Fast forward to 2016 ... Radnor, according to the lawsuit, knocked down the retaining wall and built a deck that extended over the neighbor's property.
One box, which sits low on the hill beside a retaining wall, is clad in dry-stacked local stone and Cor-Ten steel shutters.
McKenna Woodhead, 14, was riding on a personal watercraft with a friend on Lake Wylie last Monday when they reportedly slammed into a retaining wall.
The Niagara Parks Police responded to a call about a "man in crisis" who had climbed over a retaining wall and was s, they said.
Twenty people were killed Tuesday when a retaining wall collapsed onto huts in a settlement in the north Mumbai suburb of Malad, Mumbai's civic authority said.
Fernando Venegas, 19, was one of seven workers crushed when a retaining wall collapsed in September at a development in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn (the others survived).
Carroll says the video shows the defecting soldier lying against a retaining wall in a pile of leaves on the South Korean side of the DMZ.
The McLaren flew off the side of the track into a wall and then rolled through the gravel and came to rest at the retaining wall.
The man climbed over a retaining wall on Horseshoe Falls and was swept over the 57-meter (188 feet) drop, said the police service on Twitter.
It also seemed to question the Jewish connection to the Western Wall, a retaining wall of the mount and the holiest place where Jews can pray.
The new boardwalk has a steel-reinforced concrete deck, a higher elevation and a retaining wall underneath it to prevent sand from spilling into the community.
"The retaining wall of the spillway sank into the foundation about 4-5 feet, causing the flooding, but the main dam is intact," said Kaung Myat Thein.
It learned the features that define a small road and not, say, a retaining wall or creek bed; you can imagine how from orbit those might look similar.
TMZ broke the story ... Radnor got sued by his neighbor who claimed the actor knocked down a retaining wall and built a deck that extended onto his property.
A sophomore at Oregon State University died over the weekend, after climbing a retaining wall along the Oregon Coast to take a picture and falling nearly 0003 feet.
Popular images of Jewish men worshiping at the wall in prayer shawls and phylacteries show only a small stretch of the ancient retaining wall for the Temple Mount.
OUTDOOR SPACE The 3.7-acre lot has a detached one-car garage near the road, with stone steps leading down to the house by a stone retaining wall.
The wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, is a remnant of the retaining wall that surrounded the ancient Temple Mount, the most sacred site in Judaism.
According to the police, the man was seen climbing the retaining wall and then jumping into the river, where he was then swept over Horseshoe Falls, Buffalo News reported.
Police in Ontario, Canada, were responding to a call of a man in crisis at Horseshoe Falls when the man climbed over a retaining wall, Niagara Parks Police tweeted.
Jews instead pray at the Western Wall, a retaining wall for an ancient Jewish temple that once stood in the area where the Dome of the Rock now sits.
Getting closer, they saw a retaining wall that spans the Tigris, rising three hundred and seventy feet from the riverbed and extending nearly two miles from embankment to embankment.
Authorities in Ontario, Canada, closed the Niagara River Parkway near the Mather Arch in Fort Erie on Sunday because large chunks of ice were blowing over a retaining wall.
The wall is a remnant of the retaining wall that surrounded the Temple Mount, revered by Jews as the location of their ancient temples and the holiest site in Judaism.
Twenty-four people died after a retaining wall collapsed Tuesday onto huts in a settlement in the north Mumbai suburb of Malad, a spokesperson for Mumbai's civic authority said Wednesday.
The first steps were to build a retaining wall, a bridge over a small stream and an access road, then level out the land, a process that lasted a year.
The 23003-acre lot has many landscape features, including snaking hedges, numerous gardens, a patio with two seating areas and a koi pond with a stone retaining wall and fountain.
Billy's uncle lived in one of these, just down from the Board of Water & Light building, on a plot of land held above the sidewalk by a crumbling retaining wall.
According to the lawsuit, the prior owner of Radnor's property had a right to extend his property to the neighbor's land, but only if he maintained a retaining wall and walkway.
Maya Lin, a Yale undergraduate of Chinese-American extraction, won the competition with a project of staggering simplicity — a graceful hollow in the earth, a stone retaining wall and nothing else.
"Stitch Fix crashed into a retaining wall at 60 miles an hour the last time it reported, [with the] stock losing a third of its value in the same day, " he continued.
The current owners leveled a slope on one side of the house and added a retaining wall to create a space for a jungle gym and swings, reached from a side door.
That was the first time her home flooded, she said, destroying her driveway and retaining wall and leaving "a sedan-size hole carved by the river in my front yard," Woodruff said.
The trash pileup may have resulted from the failure of a marine retaining wall surrounding a huge decades-old landfill, causing trash to flow out and settle on the northern shore line.
A cracked concrete retaining wall in Hollister, California, where the Calaveras Fault is splitting the city in two, is juxtaposed with a burbling mud pool in the geothermal area of Hverir, Iceland.
"My small construction company had just been hired to build a stone retaining wall here in Waco," he says, adding that the project would be something Amy would have wanted to know about.
Then he starts whisking the eggs, slowly incorporating bits of flour from the retaining wall—carefully so that the flour dam doesn't flood—till the full amount of flour is incorporated into the eggs.
The exit lanes are narrow here, with a concrete retaining wall and a steep slope close on the right, and no room to change your mind if you get in the westbound exit by mistake.
First came an elaborate foundation system with about 20 concrete piles set more than 50 feet deep and a tall, C-shaped retaining wall to hold the sides and back of the hillside in place.
Paget suspected later there might have been an ulterior motive — "I think he took me on because although I had never jumped a horse, he needed a retaining wall built" — but he was not complaining.
Buried for thousands of years beneath seven feet of sandy clay, the remains were discovered only when the Hill family began moving dirt around their backyard to build a retaining wall and plant some grass.
Steele was driving a sprint car when the left front wheel struck the wheel of another vehicle, sending Steele's car flying and spinning into the air before it hit the retaining wall, the Associated Press reports.
Taylor obtained permits to block visibility to her Beverly Hills mansion ... including putting up a 6.5 ft tall cinder block wall by her front porch and a 7 ft high retaining wall by her tennis court.
I began discreetly chatting with a member of the crowd, who was standing with his foot planted on my garden retaining wall, when one of the organizers, a smartly dressed black woman, walked up to me.
But Alwash told me that nearly everyone outside the Iraqi government who has examined the dam believes that time is running out: in the spring, snowmelt flows into the Tigris, putting immense pressure on the retaining wall.
Aerial TV news footage from the scene the day of the tragedy showed investigators huddled around a sport utility vehicle left parked on the garage rooftop beside the structure's retaining wall, about nine levels up from the street.
He sat on the concrete retaining wall that separates the field from the first row of seats and prayed silently as a medic in a Bryce Harper T-shirt and a Detroit Tigers baseball cap tended to the man.
"This was our chance to get our beach house," said Theresa Forrester, a retired postal worker who in June had bought a waterfront home in Ponte Vedra Beach that had lost part of its retaining wall to Hurricane Matthew.
The details of the attack are chilling: Standley sat down near a retaining wall and through a gap in the wall the dog grabbed her by the finger and started chewing on her hand, while she was pinned against the fence.
In the latter melee, in which Logano and Hamlin were racing side by side on the last lap for the win — each refusing to give an inch — Hamlin slid into a retaining wall at high speed and broke his back.
JERUSALEM — Three old men who are better known for being young men stood on Wednesday morning where they had 250 years earlier: in Jerusalem's Old City, at the limestone retaining wall that is one of the holiest places for Jews.
Ever since Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967—and with it the revered retaining wall of the former Jewish temple, destroyed by the Romans in 70AD—Jewish prayers at the holy site have been regulated according to ultra-Orthodox practices.
Reed Sorenson and Corey LaJoie, the two drivers in the first Duel racing for one of the final starting spots in the Daytona 500, got together with less than 15 laps remaining, sending Sorenson's car head-on into the inside retaining wall.
Floodwaters also had overtopped a steel retaining wall containing one of three large coal ash dumps lining the lakeshore, the company told the AP, adding that it cannot rule out that ash might be escaping and flowing into the Cape Fear river.
Hundreds of millions of gallons surged through the loading docks at the Wortham, easily overcoming a retaining wall built in response to flooding from Tropical Storm Allison in 217, and filled an underground parking lot, the basement and parts of the auditoriums.
The owner of two Brooklyn construction companies was charged with manslaughter on Wednesday because the authorities said he ignored complaints about a poorly maintained retaining wall that collapsed at a work site in 2015, killing an 18-year-old laborer and injuring two others.
"What we know for sure is that under the rubble, beneath this retaining wall, are at least four people but only when we lift that wall, which is a highly complex job, will we be able to determine for sure the total number of dead," he said.
However, I made it three more pages, to the point where the adult Losers look at a police photograph of a cement retaining wall near the site of a recent murder and notice that someone (It, obviously!) wrote "Come Home Come Home Come Home" on it in blood (blood!).
In Starr County — where the federal government has already begun construction on 8 miles of border wall using money Congress approved last year — officials in the town of Roma have proposed a bulkhead retaining wall with a promenade on top that could double as a Border Patrol access road.
An engineer dives; a person we call a tender takes care of the equipment, such as the air supply and the communications cable; and a third person communicates with the diver by radio and takes notes as the diver relays information about pilings or a retaining wall, for example.
We were headed to the Allingham Guard Station, a campground along the Metolius River about 275 miles outside of Bend, Oregon, where a hundred Deschutes Forest Service employees and volunteers would be trained on everything from building a rock retaining wall to felling a tree in such a way that it doesn't flatten you.
Its passage is evident in the cycle of seasons in her earthworks — a transformative winter in "Palingenesis" (1993-94), a 227-foot-long cast-iron relief embedded to a retaining wall in a Zurich hillside, or with "Thel" (1975-77) on the Dartmouth campus in New Hampshire, where cantilevered pyramids disappear entirely when it snows and reappear when it melts for students to lounge upon.

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