Louis sought a court injunction, but this engineering feat made the Chicago the first river in the world to flow away from its mouth.
For one thing, building houses narrow enough to fit on a truck while still wide enough to live in is no mean engineering feat.
The tower, built on Piazza del Campo in 1344, was at the time a remarkable engineering feat and one of the tallest nonsectarian towers in Italy (102m).
Building a giant cable to connect Iceland with Europe would change all of that, but such a project would also be a monumental engineering feat.
You see, the effort to rebuild and recover has been not just an engineering feat to save a city, an entire culture has been at stake.
Someday that engineering feat may turn into a commercial reality.
So, if you have boatloads of cash to burn and you have your heart set on the best of the best, that's not reason enough to spring for Sony's impressive engineering feat.
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They were a tiny group of civil servants, far more fascinated by the precise details (weights, measures, sizes, costs) of the engineering feat they were attempting than the human courage that the project required.
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Nektar therapeutic's engineering feat--the first insulin inhaler for adult diabetics--required inventing a way to turn liquid insulin into a powder of uniform particles just 2 microns wide (one one-thousandth the width of a pinhead), each containing hundreds of millions of stable insulin molecules.
Bankrolled by the royal family of Abu Dhabi, the palatial resort is a feat of engineering.
For the HTC One to be successful, it requires more than just a feat of engineering.
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Pixim's feat of engineering makes clever use of traditional imaging chips but adds some intelligence where it's needed most.
It ends with a Star Trek-esque feat of engineering where missing organs are replaced using cells culled from a patient's own body.
An astonishment, a considerable feat of engineering, and, finally, a folly.
In an unparalleled feat of engineering, the rock temple was taken apart and re-erected on a site sixty metres higher and further away from the Nile.
Liam Bradley, chairman of the Saltash Waterfront Residents Association, called the cross, near the famous Brunel railway bridge, a "modern feat of engineering to be proud of".
If the train station seems like a feat of engineering today, imagine how it must have seemed back then, after 16 years and 3, 000 men in the making.
From the beginning, the 9.9 millimeter-thick Galaxy S was designed to be slimmer than the current iPhone, known as the iPhone 3GS. In person, the Galaxy S does seem an impressive feat of engineering.
The Barlow train shed with its single span roof, a marvellous feat of Victorian engineering, is being restored.
Situated in north-eastern Wales, the 18 kilometre long Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a feat of civil engineering of the Industrial Revolution, completed in the early years of the 19th century.
The authors have shown how Enterasys has been able to create a customer-driven culture by redefining what its values are, which is no small feat in an engineering-centric company.
Stand in the center of the rotunda and gaze up to the heavens through the eight-meter-high oculus at the center of the five-ton concrete dome --a stunning feat of ancient engineering, still intact after two thousand years.
In go-go Shanghai this feat requires an advanced engineering degree, but jobs for the qualified in China are plentiful.
Several models have been put forward as to how such a feat of "geo-engineering" might actually be achieved, most involving the positioning of a reflective shield of some sort out in space.
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