Image: Colonnadeparkguell. jpg | Colonnaded pathway where the road projects out from the hillside, with the vaulting forming a retaining wall which curves over to support the road, and transmits the load onto sloping columns.

To accommodate it, the south part of the summit was cleared, made level by adding some 8, 000 two-ton blocks of limestone, a foundation deep at some points, and the rest filled with earth kept in place by the retaining wall.

Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.

The retaining wall was built to support the terrace housing the construction of the second temple of Apollo in 548 BC.

Coulomb observed that, at failure, a distinct slip plane would form behind a sliding retaining wall and he suggested that the maximum shear stress on the slip plane, for design purposes, was the sum of the soil cohesion,, and friction, where is the normal stress on the slip plane and is the friction angle of the soil.

Prior to the introduction of modern reinforced-soil gravity walls, cantilevered walls were the most common type of taller retaining wall.

The resulting weight of people caused a retaining wall to collapse, killing 39 fans, mostly Italians.

The altar of Zeus consists of a great mound of ashes with a retaining wall.

The hippodrome was constructed on roughly a north-south orientation with a retaining wall of about 140 meters along the eastern side curving around the northern end.

* 1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: 39 association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.

These will act as a single unit and are stacked with setbacks to form a revetment or retaining wall.

About 12 km in length, the wall system consisted of an ashlar stone retaining wall about high surmounted by a mudbrick wall about high and thick.

The stone retaining wall had a ' foresticking stone towers spaced about every.

The stone retaining wall and part of the mudbrick structure were reconstructed in the 1960s.

The western retaining wall of the original temple, known as the Wailing Wall, or Western Wall remains in the Old City of Jerusalem and this has been the most sacred site for religious Jews.

The structure has been since found to be a semicircular retaining wall of Hellenic origin that was partly restored during the Roman period.

The ground surface or water on one side of a retaining wall will be noticeably higher than on the other side.

A dike is one type of retaining wall, as is a levee, a load-bearing foundation wall, and a sea wall.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

But because teeth sometimes may drift back to their original position, a retaining appliance is used to lock them in place.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

A hedge fund that is an example of this type of arbitrage is Greenridge Capital, which acts as an angel investor retaining equity in private companies which are in the process of becoming publicly traded, buying in the private market and later selling in the public market.

The primate of the Scottish Episcopal Church is chosen from among the diocesan bishops, and, while retaining diocesan responsibility, is called Primus.

In money games, a player is often permitted to " beaver " when offered the cube, doubling the value of the game again, while retaining possession of the cube.

Diddly is a truncation of diddly-squat, retaining the same meaning of " nothing " and bo is an intensifier.

Conservatism (, " to retain ") is a political and social philosophy that promotes retaining traditional social institutions.

Recognizing that this type of service is an important factor in attracting and retaining customers, organizations are increasingly turning to technology to help them improve their clients ’ experience while aiming to increase efficiency and minimize costs.

The ban on Christopher Reeve's Superman having a relationship with a human while retaining his superpowers is entirely absent in the world of Lois and Clark.

Christians believe that Christianity is the fulfillment and successor of Judaism, retaining much of its doctrine and many of its practices including monotheism, the belief in a Messiah, and certain forms of worship like prayer and reading from religious texts.

No trace of it has been found, but the location of the stadium and some remnants of retaining walls lead to the conclusion that is was set on a plain apart from the main part of the city and well away from the Peribolos of Apollo.

Having renounced the world, in his roles of father and king, he attained the status of an immortal being while retaining the duty of ensuring that his dynasty is preserved and that there is always a new king for each generation.

However, most notable anarchists in history have been less radical, retaining altruism and a sense of the importance of the individual that is appreciable but does not go as far as egoism.

However, the term evangelist is rarely used for this position, the church retaining the term Patriarch, the term most commonly used in the days of founder Joseph Smith, Jr.

On 1 May 1992, the ED ( now largely composed of UK Conservative Party members ) dissolved, and its remaining members were accorded " associated party " status in the EPP group ; that is, being part of the parliamentary group without retaining actual membership in the EPP party organization.

Event franchising is the duplication of public events in other geographical areas, retaining the original brand ( logo ), mission, concept and format of the event.

The primary geotechnical concern in design and installation of retaining walls is that the retained material is attempting to move forward and downslope due to gravity.

A dual-listed company ( DLC ) structure involves two companies incorporated in different countries contractually agreeing to operate their businesses as if they were a single enterprise, while retaining their separate legal identity and existing stock exchange listings.

* The new musical TULLY ( In No Particular Order ), which appeared in the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival, loosely adapts the poems of Catullus while retaining the non-linear structure of the published edition, exploring his relationships with both Clodia and Juventius, renamed Julie, and the timeless nature of memory and love.

( The VHS version of the 1980s, sharing the removal of the Scarecrow's laugh from Terry Gilkyson's title song, was expanded to include the story material from all three TV episodes, while retaining feature film structure and credits ; it was available for a relatively short amount of time.

Related to the typical wuxia settings are stories in which superhuman martial arts abilities exist, but practitioners are generals, law enforcers, criminals and so forth ; retaining both elements of wuxia combat but also a functional society more similar in structure to ancient China.

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

Due to religious restrictions on entering the most sacred areas of the Temple Mount ( see following section ), the Western Wall, a retaining wall for the Temple Mount and remnant of the Second Temple structure, is considered by some rabbinical authorities the holiest accessible site for Jews to pray.

Before the 1966 World Cup the West Stand was demolished again and replaced by a two-tiered structure with 4, 471 seats in the upper tier and retaining a terrace in front of the stand.

The structure, with a vertical outer retaining wall rising directly from the moat, is an extended usage of the ha-ha of English landscape gardening.

Hybrid cars may use special tires that are more inflated than regular tires and stiffer or by choice of carcass structure and rubber compound have lower rolling resistance while retaining acceptable grip, and so improving fuel economy whatever the power source.

The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians says of Monteux that he " was never an ostentatious conductor ... prepared his orchestra in often arduous rehearsals and then small but decisive gestures to obtain playing of fine texture, careful detail and powerful rhythmic energy, retaining to the last his extraordinary grasp of musical structure and a faultless ear for sound quality.

In Total Football, a player who moves out of his position is replaced by another from his team, thus retaining the team's intended organisational structure.

Snow powder ( or snow sugar ) is a non-melting form of icing sugar, useful for retaining its structure when dusted onto cakes or pastries that require refrigeration.

In 1996, the new Howard Coalition Government, while otherwise retaining the HECS system, created a three-tier HECS fee structure.

In 2010 Sylvian said, " Since the early ’ 80s I ’ ve been interested in deconstructing the familiar forms of popular song, in retaining the structure but removing the pillars of support.

In 2008, the historic Bahay Pangarap was essentially demolished by Architect Conrad Onglao and rebuilt in contemporary style ( retaining the basic shape of the roof as a nod to the previous historic structure ), replacing, as well, the Commonwealth-era swimming pool and pergolas with a modern swimming pool.

A favorite line in the Caro-Kann Defence ( 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6 + gxf6 ) is co-named for him and David Bronstein ; the idea is to accept a weakness to the Black pawn structure in exchange for an unbalancing of the position and retaining the bishop pair.

This is in contrast to the denatured state, in which these weak interactions are disrupted, leading to the loss of these forms of structure and retaining only the biomolecule's primary structure.

These " bulk " amorphous alloys can be cast into parts of up to several centimeters in thickness ( the maximum thickness depending on the alloy ) while retaining an amorphous structure.

The central island was the site of the main structure of the castle, comprising a retaining wall ( the middle ward ) with gatehouses east and west, and an inner ward with east and west gatehouses and circular corner towers.

The colonial system of administration was in most ways similar to rule during the Company era, retaining the same Residency and District structure ; however, as a result of this change in status, North Borneo had access to British government funds for reconstruction.

Following significant expansion, the University of Dundee became an independent body in 1967 whilst retaining much of its ancient heritage and governance structure.