One night I sat on the patio contemplating the honeycomb of cinder block houses that filled the ravine.
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"Every block of houses and flats links to another with a footpath, " he said.
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One long oblong of speaker-grille, punctuated by a central block that houses the all important valves, as well as a control section underneath.
He will have the biggest voting block in both houses, and all the parties say they will support him.
"If you go up my block now, all the houses have been demolished and removed, " Marten said.
Despite holding comfortable majorities in both houses, her block in Congress had to establish a costly scheme of payments for small farmers to win a close vote in the lower house.
However, reallocation of the D Block will take votes in both houses of Congress and until July 21, the Senate had been quiet.
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The club is comprised of 10 Georgian town houses that span an entire block of Shepherd Market, a beautiful and quiet quarter in the middle of Mayfair.
So the hope on East 78th Street is to sell the well-preserved houses on a quiet residential block off Lexington Avenue to a family or a developer looking to create a single 25-wide mansion by breaking through the wall between the houses.
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The tiny row houses, the gray cinder-block walls, seemed to stretch for miles.
The company also wants to convert the historic Rosetta House into three apartments with a further six houses being created from the current stable block.
This block-long strip of pimped-out Victorian houses, painted in "look at me" shades like canary yellow, turquoise and scarlet, is a vintage clothing hub to be reckoned with.
But she said they had been told the block was a listed building, one of the earliest council houses in south-east London, and could not be knocked down.
Troops moved forward block by block, hunting for cover behind crumbling mud-brick walls and houses.
So the "Seagram" sculpture stands one block north of its namesake, cleverly commenting on the modernist building that houses the celebrated Four Seasons restaurant.
They cannot be used to block development outright, but they can give residents a say about where houses are built and what they might look like.
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From Charing Cross, dogleg a block to Buckingham Street, lined with pretty, well-preserved redbrick Georgian houses.
The stumbling block is a constitutional requirement that changes must be agreed not just by both houses of parliament but also by the legislatures of at least seven of the 10 provinces, representing at least half their total population.
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