High up are tiny platforms with doors opening on to them; the roofs are broken by many a quaint dormer window; the whole could only be swept away by a great fire, such as came to London in 1666.
But Hatshepsu's architects copied this feature only; the actual arrangements on the platforms in the two temples are as different as they can possibly be.
It was now near sunset and the day's decline irradiated the stately front of the Cathedral, the walls of the ancient Hospital that faced it, and the groups gathered about the stalls and platforms obstructing the square.
Flat, shabby platforms of twigs placed at low elevations in thickets or on the lower branches of trees.
Shabby platformsof twigs and grasses placed at low elevations in thickets.
Although of no great thickness it covers six-sevenths of the island, rising in a series of steps or platforms to a height of nearly 1100 ft.
Eadmer's description, we see that it was an aisled basilica, with an apse at either end, containing altars standing on raised platforms approached by steps.
It is asserted that Asotin warehouses and platforms along the Snake River from which the steamboats gather up the wheat, constitute the greatest initial grain shipping point or series of points on the O.
Away with parties and platforms and every thing else which would obstruct the free and patriotic efforts now making for the salvation of the Union.
There were no resolutions in their platformswhich could give the South any cause of alarm.
How can men stop for party platformswhen their country is in danger?
The Premier of the incoming administration has declared that parties and platforms are subordinate to, and must disappear in the presence of the great question of the Union.
The consequences of farther disagreement are too great, the crisis is too important to permit mere sectional differences, mere pride of opinion, party shackles or party platforms to control the action of any gentleman here.
Intelligent citizens should abandon platforms and stand up for peace.
It is equally true that parties have repudiated that decision both inplatforms and on the stump.
I could trample parties and platforms under foot to preserve the Union, but I cannot understand how honest men can abandon principles because a party has adopted them into its platform.
Men should abandon platforms when they tend to destroy the country.
They will disregard politics and parties--they will cast platforms to the winds of heaven, before they will place the Union in peril.
They both insert planks in their platforms which seem likely to win votes.
The extent to which these views have gained ground among the American people may be seen in the platforms of both political parties in the presidential contest of 1908.
Nevertheless, the Spaniards got some corn there, from the high cribs of cane set up onplatforms beside the huts.
They built themselves huts on platforms above the water and caught turtles in the bayous.
Native shikarees (hunters) erected machans or platforms over it to pot the deer at their ease.
And in the latter, forty feet from the ground, were platformsreached by ladders and hidden by the leafy branches.
The president authorized the secretary to send a circular letter to all clubs urging them to commence in the precinct primaries the work of securing suffrage planks in the platforms of the several political parties.
In 1892 the Populist and the Prohibition State platforms contained declarations for woman suffrage.
Committees were appointed which visited the political State conventions the following summer, asking a declaration in their platforms for this amendment, but were unsuccessful.
From 1884 down to the present women have appeared many times in person and by petition before county and State conventions of the different political parties, asking for a recognition in their platforms of the right of women to the suffrage.
Year after year the executive committee have visited the State conventions of all the political parties asking for a plank in their platforms indorsing equal suffrage, but without success.
She was in Idaho, where all four political parties put suffrage planks into their platforms and the amendment carried.
The indorsement by the Democratic convention was a great achievement, and the fact that the planks had been inserted in all the political platforms was a strong point later on in the case before the Supreme Court.
While the former, for the most part, were loyal to the amendment they could not fully control the speakers or platforms at the rallies and it was kept out of sight as much as possible.
All of the parties placed women on their platforms to speak in behalf of the candidates.
At the annual convention in October, 1894, a cordial resolution was unanimously adopted thanking the two political parties for having inserted in their platforms a plank approving suffrage for women.
Political Methods and pointed out the inconsistent and illogical declarations of platforms and speakers when applied to women, also the delight afforded to men by the tin horns and fireworks.
I put it forth as being more concrete than political party platforms are--and as a practical and plain way for a nation to look over a President, find him out, and follow him up.
On these platforms there were huge stone gods that have been thrown down; some were thirty-seven feet high, and they had redstone crowns, ten feet in diameter.
There are immense platformsof stone, like the paepaes of the Marquesas, only bigger, and the stones are all fitted together without cement.
Funds for the preparation of this guide were provided by a grant to Stephen Leatherwood from the Platforms of Opportunity Program, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Tiburon, Calif.
This guide was designed to assist the layman in identifying the cetaceans he encountered in that area and was intended for use in two ongoing whale observer programs, NUC's Whale Watch and NMFS's Platforms of Opportunity.
In addition to securing funds for the preparation and publication of this guide, Paul Sund, Platforms of Opportunity Program, NMFS, Tiburon, Calif.
At the mouth of the tunnels were two gun platforms on either side, and the mouth itself was concealed by being covered over with earth or grass.
The Z-22 had been in service only a few weeks, and was of the latest type, with invisible gondolas, platforms at the top of the envelope, and detachable rafts for use in case of accident while crossing the sea.
Above a freight station another stop is made; on the platforms of its storehouses men rush along busily.
The schooner's crew can see to the removal of the guns from the batteries and their establishment upon platforms behind the palisade.
Nat had been fully employed, with the schooner's crew, in removing the guns from the batteries, and placing them on the platforms constructed by the carpenters on the top of the earthworks.
Stairs and platforms were utilized before the window and under the arch.
A resolution objecting to members of the party "appearing onplatforms alongside Liberal and Tory capitalists and landlords," was defeated by a large majority.
Party platforms and party loyalty are replaced by a political individualism that to an American politician would seem like political anarchy.
Many of the economic policies espoused by the Social Democratic parties of Europe are written into the platforms of our political parties.
The one of these platforms constitutes the low standard of mere worldly morality.
There are two platforms of morality, in some respects inseparably blended, in others quite distinctly separated from each other.
It has seven different platforms round it, and a square summit.
There are no supporting platforms outside, but along the north and east walls are revetments reaching halfway up the face.
The central space, between the two, is paved with large stones which apparently pass under both platforms and extend from the foot of the east wall nearly to the west wall, a slight ditch separating it from the latter.
One hundred and fifty yards up the ravine from the dance platforms are two large artificial depressions in weathered bowlders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "platforms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
