Salt-accelerated corrosion has caused ceiling light fixtures to fail ( see below ), but can also cause rapid deterioration of embedded rebar and other structural steel reinforcements holding the tunnel walls and ceiling in place.

The term " low ceiling diuretic " is used to indicate that a diuretic has a rapidly flattening dose effect curve ( in contrast to " high ceiling ", where the relationship is close to linear ).

The series has been described as " the most essential to our understanding of the human condition in modern times, just as Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling is essential to understanding the tenor of the 16th century ".

They are continuous through all concealed spaces ( e. g., above a ceiling ), but are not required to extend through concealed spaces if the construction assembly forming the bottom of the space has a fire resistance rating at least equal of the fire barrier wall.

That level is the employee's " level of incompetence " where the employee has no chance of further promotion, thus reaching their career's ceiling in an organization.

* Sometimes confetti will rain from the ceiling, often to hail the arrival of a wrestler who has recently won a championship or accomplished some other feat.

In other instances, money has rained from the ceiling as an extension of the character presented ( i. e. John " Bradshaw " Layfield, Donald Trump )

The original Chapel now forms the Old Library and has a striking seventeenth century plaster ceiling, designed by Henry Doogood, showing birds flying overhead.

However, compared to a turbojet ( which can fly at high altitude for enhanced speed and fuel efficiency ) a propeller aircraft has a much lower ceiling.

Legal analyst Jeffrey Rosen has argued that Section 4 gives the President unilateral authority to raise or ignore the national debt ceiling, and that if challenged the Supreme Court would likely rule in favor of expanded executive power or dismiss the case altogether for lack of standing.

Erwin Chemerinsky, professor and dean at University of California, Irvine School of Law, has argued that not even in a " dire financial emergency " could the President raise the debt ceiling as " there is no reasonable way to interpret the Constitution that him to do so ".

The issue of what effect Section 4 has regarding the debt ceiling remains unsettled.

The fact that the shot is taken right after a ceiling shot-floor bounce usually leaves the opponent in the rear of the court defenseless against the CB Pinch, when the player has suddenly rushed forward to take the shot.

In the east wing is the long gallery which has oak panelling, a chimney-piece and a panelled ceiling.

In modern times, this practice has been revived, and interestingly adapted as well, to include the strewing of origami doves from above, or suspending them – sometimes by the hundreds – from the ceiling.

The 14th-century wooden ceiling of the cloister of Fréjus Cathedral has a remarkable series of paintings of biblical scenes, fantastic animals, and scenes from daily life, painted between 1350 and 1360.

All goes array, however, when Teacher finds out he has been tricked and punishes the pupils by making them stay behind after school and paint the class room ceiling.

The sebucan usually is hung from a tree branch or ceiling pole, and it has a closed bottom with a loop that is attached to a fixed stick or lever, which is used to stretch the sebucan.

Unable to be heard above the crowd, Hitler fired a shot into the ceiling and jumped on a chair yelling: " The national revolution has broken out!

The main party room has a high ceiling with small holes near the top where lanterns were hung at night from the outside to give the appearance of a starlit sky.

It displays the planets across the width of a room's ceiling, and has been in operation almost continually since it was created.

The Central Hall has a frescoed ceiling with the 17th century Incoronation of Bradamante by Marco Antonio Franceschini.

The sober original structure has now 17th stuccoes and a panelled ceiling.

The main interior is the central Saloon, a roofed courtyard of two storeys, of three by five bays of arches on each floor, the walls are lined with scagliola, the coved ceiling is glazed and the centre has three glazed saucer domes.

Food was left for him in a saucer suspended from the ceiling, he picked his own food, and sometimes took it when he thought no one was watching.

In a cavern just before the exit stairway leading to a building on the rue Dareau ( former ' rue des Catacombes ') above, one could see an example of the Quarry Inspection's work in the rest of Paris's underground caverns: its roof is two 11-metre high domes of naturally degraded, but reinforced, rock ; the dates painted into the highest point of each bear witness to what year the work to the collapsing cavern ceiling was done, and whether it has degraded since.

In this period, domes were normally built to emphasize separate functional spaces, rather than as the modular ceiling units they had been earlier.

In the Babri Masjid a passive environmental control system comprised the high ceiling, domes, and six large grille windows.

The ceiling of the church has many " blind " domes.

The mixture of styles is truly bewildering ; from the onion domes of a Russian orthodox church, to the Arabic style ceiling, to the distinctly Indian looking Aron kodesh.

Peripheral compartments on the edges of the bunker, allow the individual canons to occupy their own space, with the ceiling designed with several asymmetrical domes of various heights.

The big fans were going, drawing from the large room the remnants of stale smoke which drifted about in pale strata underneath the ceiling.

The Act further provides for a `` floor '' or minimum allotment, set at the 1954 level, which is called the `` base '' allotment, and a `` ceiling '' or maximum allotment, for each State.

The United Nations had concluded that women often experience a " glass ceiling " and that there are no societies in which women enjoy the same opportunities as men.

His home is Glitnir, its name, meaning " shining ," referring to its silver ceiling and golden pillars, which radiated light that could be seen from a great distance.

In a typical wooden sailboat, the hull is constructed of wooden planking, supported by transverse frames ( often referred to as ribs ) and bulkheads, which are further tied together by longitudinal stringers or ceiling.

The minimum weather conditions for ceiling and visibility for VFR flights are defined in FAR Part 91. 155, and vary depending on the type of airspace in which the aircraft is operating, and on whether the flight is conducted during daytime or nighttime.

The UK, in whose occupation zone most of the steel production was located, had argued for a more limited capacity reduction by placing the production ceiling at 12 million tons of steel per year, but had to submit to the will of the U. S., France and the Soviet Union ( which had argued for a 3 million ton limit ).

He reminds us that the Platonic writer Porphyry wrote in the 3rd century AD that the cave-like temple Mithraea depicted " an image of the world " and that Zoroaster consecrated a cave resembling the world fabricated by Mithras The ceiling of the Caesarea Maritima Mithraeum retains traces of blue paint, which may mean the ceiling was painted to depict the sky and the stars.

During the same period, Michelangelo took the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took approximately four years to complete ( 1508 – 1512 ).

* Using bounce flash in which the flash head is aimed at a nearby pale colored surface such as a ceiling or wall or at a specialist photographic reflector.

The ceiling of the chamber in which the court convened was supposedly painted with a representation of the night sky, including stars, so that the accused could gaze upon the decorated ceiling and contemplate his place in the universe.

One of the differences is that the room is decorated with a unique fresco of dancing rats on the ceiling, rat wall paper, rat carpet, and so on, which is stated to have the effect of making people " feel as if they need a wash " after a few minutes.

He designed the main hall to seem like subterranean cave with 1, 200 coal bags suspended from the ceiling over a coal brazier with a single light bulb which provided the only lighting, so patrons were given flashlights with which to view the art.

A stalactite (, ; from the Greek stalasso, ( σταλάσσω ), " to drip ", and meaning " that which drips ") is a type of speleothem ( secondary mineral ) that hangs from the ceiling of limestone caves.

The " unfinished " ceiling is a symbolic reminder that the economic and social work of the United Nations is never finished ; there will always be something more which can be done to improve living conditions for the world's people.

In Great Britain, one of Hogarth's set of paintings forming a melodramatic morality tale titled Marriage à la Mode, engraved in 1745, shows the parade rooms of a stylish London house, in which the only rococo is in plasterwork of the salon's ceiling.

Glass partition walls are a series of individual toughened glass panels, which are suspended from or slide along a robust aluminium ceiling track.

Wall partitions are constructed using beads and tracking which are either hung from the ceiling or fixed into the ground.

* A layback spin is an upright spin, usually performed by women, in which the back is arched and head dropped back, the free leg in an attitude position, and the arms often stretched to the ceiling.

To position the camera, a hole had to be cut in the ceiling, through which the steam escaped ; it was instead added digitally.