Passengers clung to the sides of buses or crowded on to the roofs, while those inside were charged higher-than-usual fares.
Called Zone Green, it will promote energy efficiency by making it easier to add photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, greenhouses and shading devices to the roofs and sides of older buildings.
People moved to the roofs of houses to watch what was going on, but within a few minutes, Sudanese security forces had asked people to come down and from that point, Sudanese security was standing on top of the roofs.
The result suggests a more crowded version of Las Vegas, except that many of the skyscrapers are capped with shapes intended to evoke the roofs of Chinese temples to the untutored eye, they resemble giant power tools.
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There is spring in the air in balmy Geneva, where it seems a good idea to whip the roofs off and cruise along the lake.
According to the institute, automakers strengthened roofs to meet the rollover performance requirement it added in 2010.
In that short time, white-gloved candidates drive around waving from their campaign cars, repeating their names and asking for votes over loudspeakers attached to the car roofs.
This style, found almost nowhere else in Germany, uses dry straw and water reed to build the roofs, resulting in a home that is cool in the summer and warm in winter.
It might not make sense to install solar panels on the roofs of suburban tract homes already connected to the power grid, but imagine remote bases in Afghanistan powered by lightweight, flexible solar panels built right into tent fabric, or unfurled as easily as extending an umbrella.
We went out to the roof to see what's happening, we saw fires, we saw people on the roofs in the ghetto screaming, begging God to help them.
Three horses had to be rescued after the roofs of two barns collapsed under heavy snow in separate incidents in Angus and Perthshire.
The slate roofs of the Bombardier factory testify to its Victorian heritage: rolling stock has been manufactured at the site since the mid-19th century.
Countries with the highest levels of owner-occupation, such as Finland, Ireland and Spain, where around 80% of households own the roofs over their heads, tend to have the highest rates of unemployment (see chart).
The only thing you have to worry about are those looking down from even higher roofs, or others who also have keys to the space.
Aerial mapping and analysis shows that some of the best roofs to invest in to harness this feed-in tariff are on rooftops of inner city Angelenos.
Renzo Piano, a celebrated museum architect, is already on his third model, a wooden structure consisting of 14 interconnecting buildings, painted red with glass roofs pointing to the north.
We have 191 million buildings in the EU. The mission now is to convert the entire building stock of Europe to partial green power plants that can collect solar energy on the roofs, wind energy off the sides of the building, geothermal energy from the ground below the building, biomass energy from the conversion of garbage in the building, etc.
Near Adairsville, the storms tossed vehicles on Interstate 75 onto their roofs, forcing the route to close for a time.
The homeowners try to kill the removers, and protest with slogans on their roofs.
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Attended by marching bands and flags and encouraged by a district mayor, the good burghers of several streets were painting their roofs white, to reflect sunlight and cool the Earth.
Two sedans with big, brightly painted, carefully hand-built model airplanes lashed to their roofs were turning off the road onto the dirt track.
Musicians' bodies have raised concerns about this and have lobbied for the music grant to keep the budgetary protection that was introduced by a previous Labour government to stop schools spending the money on items like leaky roofs.
Two magnificent doorways pierce the walls and there's access to sections of the walls that look down on the tiled roofs of the houses and their gardens.
Mother Nature has a long history of interfering with our favorite pro sports, from collapsing stadium roofs with snow to interrupting the World Series with an earthquake.
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Feed-in tariff subsidies, which enable people who install solar panels on their roofs to get rebates for the electricity they put back into the grid, were halved for people who had their panels installed after 12 December - a move which Labour says has "strangled" the solar panel industry.
On one of the side roofs lay the body of a man who had just fallen to his death from an upper level.
While Khatami promised to lift the ban on satellite television, the regime has gone door-to-door ripping dishes from roofs and balconies.
The green roof market alone grew by 115% last year, according to Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, a not-for-profit organization touting the benefits of turf roofing.
The thatch for the roofs alone required more than 40, 000 trips up the steep hill to the rooms.
"There were cries for help, so I returned to other houses or roofs and retrieved all the people there, " he said.
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