But there are two big problems with building walls to keep the sea out.
Japan's government estimated the tsunami pulled five million tons of debris, from building walls to automobile parts, into the ocean.
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Transmissions in the millimeter wave band do not pass through building walls.
"I love the folklore and Celtic mythology of Scotland and also the time in history when the Romans were invading and building walls, " he said.
The results of this study indicate that solutions cannot be found in simple measures like building walls and fences, putting up bars, using metal detectors, or employing private security services.
After redecorating and improving her home - doing everything from building walls to laying carpet - she has now decided to focus on getting a career in the construction industry.
No other virtual currency will even come close to that kind of vibrant liquidity and building walls to ring fence a virtual environment will turn out to be a counter-productive strategy.
You can, of course, fight an unpredictable tide by building sea walls, flood gates and breakwaters.
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The work will include the building of walls on both sides of the river between Ness Bridge and Friar's Bridge.
Had New York and New Jersey focused resources on building sea walls and adding storm doors to the subway system and making simple fixes like porous pavements, Hurricane Sandy would have caused much less damage.
As a result, the Constitutional Court was chosen to be constructed right next to Johannesburg's Old Fort Prison, a notorious building whose walls had served to confine two of the best know civil rights figures of the previous century.
The North Sea flood of 1953, which killed 307 people, led to a further building of sea walls and groynes.
Plans for the Don Valley flood protection project include building new flood walls, installing flood gates, as well as repairing and reinforcing existing defences.
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The Honourable The Irish Society, the ancient London body that effectively put the London in Derry by building the city walls, still exists (quaint name included).
The report's findings illustrate the uphill challenge that those who favour building fences and walls to keep Latin American immigrants out of the United States face.
In the new South Africa it has remained that way - a decrepit building of crumbling walls and leaking roofs, where open drains carry dirty water past overcrowded wards.
In order to stop flood waters overwhelming central London and to save the massive expense of building fresh flood walls and defences, some land could be set aside to act as a safety valve, catching flood waters and storing them until the danger has passed.
Given the cost of building ever larger sea walls, there is an attempt to harness Nature's own defences.
But when the wrecking ball finally came for the exhibit, in the 1960s, it bounced right off the building's polymer walls.
Homeowners are tearing down walls and building open-plan kitchens that blend into dens or great rooms, and in some cases include homework stations or home offices.
This year is the 400th anniversary of the building of the city walls that make Derry one of the finest examples of a walled city anywhere in Europe.
He plans to put smaller walls in the main auditorium and two 65ft (20m) climbing walls in the building's tower.
Within the walls of that building, Dred Scott is nowhere to be found, and Lochner stalks the halls like a ghost.
Ms. Thompson also opened up the home's interiors by replacing sections of the building's exterior brick walls with mahogany-framed panels of floor-to-ceiling glass.
The pod is designed with an inflatable tube around its edges, which should cause it to bounce off the walls of a building.
The NYPD released a video Monday that shows the wreckage wedged between concrete walls behind the building, surrounded by several yellow police evidence markers.
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His comments came during question time on 29 November 2010, in response to Labour's Lord Haskel, who asked about the state of the building, including the "walls, foundation and roof".
Near a hospital for eye diseases, is an office building for the Ministry of Higher Education, a new modern building surrounded by concrete blast walls and checkpoints, it was thought to be guarded enough.
My longtime neighbor dislocated her hip, and through the walls of our apartment building, we could hear her shrieking in pain.
Furthermore, there's nothing stopping people building their own, more basic green walls at home, Laurence says.
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