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"decrepit" Definitions
  1. (of a thing or person) very old and not in good condition or health

770 Sentences With "decrepit"

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Here's a decrepit old man in a decrepit old room, furtively swigging booze.
Reggie was out and about in L.A. looking absolutely decrepit (if decrepit people look super jacked) when we asked about celebrating his 31st birthday.
"Cuomo: A decrepit subway for New Yorkers," one person quipped.
The New York Yankees are looking a little decrepit lately.
It's old, decrepit, and the walls seem to be rotting.
At least 40 people died, many in the decrepit hospitals.
More than likely it's your decrepit collection of dying cells.
She lives at Thornhill, a decrepit orphanage slated for closure.
I covered the Soviet Union in its final decrepit years.
To begin tackling the state's decrepit bridges and roads, Gov.
Born in India, stints in Britain, Saudi Arabia, New York and then dragging a garbage bag full of clothes from a decrepit house to a more decrepit house as a student in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Our time is up, he says, glancing around his decrepit office.
Starving dogs chained to decrepit houses surrounded by patches of dirt.
The decrepit back-room operation has been modernized, Mr. Stringer said.
The character's tiny house is imagined to be haunted and decrepit
Its historical center was dotted with decrepit and semi-abandoned buildings.
With a buddy named Jack, they sleep in a decrepit, abandoned hotel.
The surrounding area of decrepit warehouses was neglected for half a century.
Mr Bouteflika is indicative of the decrepit state of the region's politics.
Plus, there was a decrepit downtown New York that was dirt cheap.
Educators sent us photos of decrepit classrooms and 25-year-old textbooks.
With decrepit infrastructure, how will the country accommodate its growth going forward?
A creepy painting of an old woman hanging in a decrepit mansion.
THE PLAZAS in San Salvador's historical centre were once decrepit and dangerous.
The trailer takes viewers on a tour of The Beast's decrepit castle.
The cooling tower was a decrepit part of a falling-apart facility.
"You're a decrepit human being," he continued before being removed by security.
The house, as decrepit as it is, is a Washington tourist attraction.
The gravel driveway of her decrepit house is littered with bullet casings.
But I think one is afraid of getting decrepit and all that.
Three carried a quilt with images of decrepit inner-city public schools.
The money would be better spent fixing decrepit infrastructure and improving public services.
The surge has overwhelmed Cuba's decrepit tourism infrastructure and left hotels above capacity.
Hill House is a beautiful — if decrepit — mansion, adorned with statues and staircases.
I retreated to my disgusting basement apartment in a decrepit part of town.
But it has also highlighted the decrepit state of the Palestinian national movement.
It looked to me like the changing room of a decrepit public bath.
However, his focus is on the decrepit, abandoned urban sites that Penunzi overlooked.
Segregated schools for black students were often decrepit, poorly staffed and crushingly overcrowded.
All varieties of American infrastructure — roads, bridges, airports, sewers — are in decrepit condition.
Its already decrepit infrastructure deteriorated so severely that sewage overflowed into the sea.
So this should happen in the decrepit, broken down New York City subway.
But all were built before 1980, are decrepit, and lose about $9bn a year.
There's a chance the decrepit state of these once-fantastic places is only temporary.
From a low base, the scope for a decrepit economy to grow is considerable.
The building is decrepit, some walls crumbling, others caked in a thin, greasy film.
Here's one way to fix New York City's decrepit subway system: Get everybody high.
Some briefly stop to take in the decrepit building before continuing on their walk.
Thousands of Rohingya have lived in decrepit internal displacement camps in Myanmar for years.
Roads throughout the region run past neighborhoods pockmarked by burnt, boarded, and decrepit buildings.
An ultra-modern stadium sits idle like a decrepit shopping mall or steel mill.
In one post, he called Hillary Clinton "decrepit" and in another called Virginia Sen.
We cannot compete with decrepit roads, bridges, water and sewer systems, ports and airports.
But they're also real, their decrepit campground and chafing interactions realized with rough authenticity.
That is how they've ended up as single renters in this decrepit, unsafe house.
Somehow, decrepit and desolate, it survived to be incorporated into an auto body shop.
I saw this decrepit, angry old man who was trying to play the victim card.
FIRST THE monsoon overwhelmed blocked and decrepit drains and left large parts of Karachi underwater.
A line of pale, decrepit buildings is visible through the gloom, miles in the distance.
WHEN 14 years of civil war ended in 2003, Liberia was left with decrepit schools.
This is not some poor, decrepit country but, incredibly, a modern western European democracy—Spain.
Innocent youths are caged in robot suits, powerful psychics are trapped in decrepit childlike forms.
New elections would also allow for Iraq's decrepit government accountability organizations to finally be fixed.
It seems that even the wind is reluctant to move around such a decrepit zone.
The first vehicle I owned was a decrepit van that struggled even on modest inclines.
The bridge collapse has traumatized Italy and exposed the decrepit state of the country's infrastructure.
It's difficult to imagine that this decrepit walkway was once filled with families on vacation.
Their decrepit five-story apartment building, long ignored by city officials, was now deemed unsafe.
His fascination with bricks was also likely triggered by his isolation at the decrepit hotel.
The alley he posed in, with its stained brick and decrepit windows, was his habitat.
The lights illuminate once-proud houses on quiet streets and decrepit structures along main thoroughfares.
The city has many problems, from its dilapidated schools to urban deprivation and decrepit infrastructure.
"We like a fixer-upper, but it was in pretty decrepit shape," Ms. Li said.
Earlier in the decade, the site of the Domino Sugar Factory sat abandoned and decrepit.
Homeowner Becky – of Westlake – chooses a decrepit old home, much to the surprise of the team.
Would a Finding Nemo hotel built on a decrepit boat be too much to ask for?
Though it looked decrepit, the house stayed warm enough when the next winter hit in December.
And anyway, it's not as though his Chicago offense was decrepit or devoid of any merit.
At the heart of their strategies is the idea that old order is corrupt and decrepit.
However, achieving sustainable growth will require a novel approach and the rebuilding of decrepit governance institutions.
Three days later, they will be transferred to Bangui to enter the country's decrepit justice system.
The decrepit asylum (and the caretaker's house on the same land) remained untouched for 46 years.
The building, a decrepit hulk, was taken over by the Czech Republic in 2001 and restored.
Deferred maintenance, increasingly decrepit tracks and signals and cars, and filthy stations are knock-on effects.
I just don't know how you'd do it; we're all so fucking old and decrepit now.
The US has just one heavy icebreaker, the decrepit Polar Star, operated by the Coast Guard.
The building itself, one of the great architectural treasures of Philadelphia, is now abandoned and decrepit.
No one even passes the mound anymore, leaving Winnie with only her decrepit husband for companionship.
Fixing America's decrepit infrastructure shouldn't be controversial—it enhances competitiveness, creates jobs, and helps the environment.
Trump painted a picture of decrepit cities where homeless people are driving away more affluent residents.
New Yorkers directed whatever anger they had left for the decrepit state of the subway system.
But when Thomas wasn't in the game, the Celtics looked like a decrepit D-League squad.
Forget the "decrepit old physicians only worried about money," their minds will never change, advised others.
It is an utterly, amusingly decrepit Victorian collection where straw is spilling out of the taxidermied animals.
But more importantly, without local journalistic watch dogs, local governments could fall into decrepit states of corruption.
But how will the A-lister manage to look as decrepit as the anti-virus software mogul?
DETROIT — In Kathy Aaron's decrepit public school, the heat fills the air with a moldy, rancid odor.
Parks in the outer boroughs lie decrepit and crumbling; libraries constantly scramble for the funding they need.
It contained old doors, shredded lawn chairs, a decrepit exercise bike and a bundle of metal crutches.
With nothing to take the place of the decrepit regimes, Syria, Libya and Yemen collapsed into chaos.
Or is it yet another example of the increasingly decrepit "both sides" ethos that pervades American journalism?
The decrepit former newspaper office is two blocks from streets painted and resurfaced ahead of Obama's visit.
Ms. Ivey is hardly the first governor to reckon with the prison system and its decrepit conditions.
I don't know what I was expecting, but the city's haunted, decrepit beauty took me by surprise.
The Buford was an elderly, decrepit troopship, known by sailors as a heavy "roller" in rough seas.
Decrepit haunted houses, supernaturally spooky castles, and creepy caves are places where ghosts and murderers run amuck.
Its airstrip is too decrepit and overgrown to allow supplies to be flown in, Dr. Salama said.
Decrepit, senile, and miserable, Tithonus eventually shrank into a cicada who stridulated ceaselessly, calling out for release.
The city itself — outside of the ritzy casinos — is decrepit, with lots of gift shops and bars.
The Hill's Mallory Shelbourne breaks it down like a woefully decrepit stretch of interstate: http://bit.ly/2o5IjBp.
When decrepit vessels sank, they were often left where they lay, hulls protruding from the oily water.
The modern world (or so the right-wing narrative often goes) is corrupt, morally decrepit, decadent, and decayed.
There was also a decrepit half pipe in the backyard that Sleater Kinney had supposedly once played in.
The women are shepherded into a decrepit, overrun Fenway Park, where three massive gallows have been set up.
In the lawsuit, attorneys claimed that the inmates' are "plagued by violence" and subject to decrepit living conditions.
So again, as in the world of books, the long tail is eating the old and decrepit body.
Indeed, these international bureaucracies project that the U.S. will have more red ink than Europe's decrepit welfare states.
Americans are stuck with a decrepit payment system, predatory banks, and interest-bearing accounts that bear no interest.
A history of accidental explosions and weather damage at Bannerman Castle have left it in this decrepit state.
There's a great scene in "The Simpsons" where Mr. Burns, the decrepit old tycoon, goes to the doctor.
She looks at her decrepit figure in the mirror, and then crawls into bed, leaving us to wonder.
It was even possible that the decrepit Telpod building I had seen earlier in Krakow would be saved.
Or how about aggressively pressing forward on a $24 billion overhaul of the city's decrepit public housing system?
Once again, she had problems with the heat, in addition to a cracked ceiling and other decrepit conditions.
While the Romantics message each other, straitjacketed lunatics cavort onto Alfred Schatz's decrepit set, accompanied by live musicians.
He noted that many of the island's power plants are decrepit, with some more than 40 years old.
The clock was found by two Ford employees wrapped in moving blankets and gently leaning against a decrepit building.
Essential maintenance like trimming trees back from power lines and replacing decrepit poles was delayed for years, even decades.
The people of Tama and their apartments are all growing old and decrepit at the same time, she says.
In 1978 Hefner led a public campaign and held a fundraiser at the mansion to replace the decrepit landmark.
Bedenbaugh said private investors receive  incentives , like tax credits, to help resurrect decrepit buildings to boost their region's economy.
A decrepit three-bedroom, two-bath house in Fremont sold last month for $1.23 million, even though it's uninhabitable.
Its plans call for turning a decrepit warehouse with broken windows into a grand exhibition hall for local artists.
You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. —T.
The now-decrepit mansion was purchased in 2014 with plans to demolish it and replace it with a park.
Technical problems with decrepit machines had caused some votes to be counted more than once or not at all.
The pictures and videos show a decrepit snack bar, a ruined animal hospital, and an eerily quiet loading dock.
He urged Congress to produce a bill that would "generate at least $1.5 trillion" to modernize our decrepit infrastructure.
Prepa recently took one power plant out of service, saying it was too old and decrepit to be viable.
In 2013, at least 60 people died when a decrepit building weakened by basement work collapsed in the city.
For that truly epic work, Mr. Lichtenstein had restored a decrepit movie palace to Mr. Brook's very exact specifications.
Creech, a huge cephalopod, subsists on oil, and takes up residence in Tripp's decrepit jalopy, sometimes impertinently seizing control.
Today, the old tunnels are seven years more decrepit and are doing a fine job of making commuters miserable.
Dispatch From Yangon, Myanmar YANGON, Myanmar — To ride Yangon's charmingly decrepit Circle Line train is to ride through history.
Under California law and in other states, tenants in unsafe or decrepit housing can get out of their leases.
My photos were almost all landscapes with a few shots of decrepit buildings rising out of jungles and frozen tundras.
She said the decrepit apartment had become unbearable—it was infested with bedbugs, and she feared for her children's health.
On one, people chat, smoke and sip, spilling out from bars in decrepit mansions, from juice joints and sleek bistros.
The only thing seemingly tying our protagonists together is the decrepit motel that makes for the backdrop for the film.
If Palace are a metaphorical eagle, that eagle is old, decrepit and crippled by a profound melancholy of the soul.
In the blink of an eye you and I will be decrepit ruins, looking back on ours wasted lives. Brilliant!
But they are decrepit, and unlike the South's many sleek motorways, the North's roads are dire: just 3% are paved.
Leaning on our decrepit tour van, we chugged beer and got to know one another talking about music, fashion, whatever.
"Obviously, the Angel is quite destroyed in the show—she is glorious and decrepit at the same time," Caldwell said.
Saratoga County Homestead, a decrepit former sanatorium in upstate New York, was put up on Auctions International by county officials.
The United States should update the increasingly decrepit building and sell it off as a hotel, filling our Treasury's coffers.
How is someone like Woodcock, who says cold-call centers demonstrate "how decrepit capitalism has become," able to do this?
Mr. Cuomo could be vulnerable on issues like the spotty upstate economy, New York City's decrepit subway system, and corruption.
She failed to negotiate for eternal youth, you see, and with the years she grows shrunken and decrepit and miserable.
Many small studios, threatened by rising rents, decrepit buildings, well-funded university programs, and instant internet stardom, are now struggling.
I want us to extend out the years that we can be healthy and happy versus on medication and decrepit.
Older now and physically frailer (President Carter actually uses the word "decrepit"), the couple plan only one year in advance.
All this week Basra, Iraq's third-largest city, has been wracked by protests over the decrepit state of public services.
" The city reminds her of "what Americans used to think the future would look like — gleaming and decrepit at once.
Now, after a lifetime of obedience to his masters, Frank is old, decrepit and alone, seemingly abandoned by his family.
Many now-abandoned churches across Europe also featured courtyards, which have become overgrown or decrepit as they go uncared for.
She waitressed to support herself and lived in a series of decrepit apartments that she didn't bother to fix up.
At 68, I miss this younger version of us and the time we shared in that decrepit, too-small bed.
And now, minorities are in harm's way again by investors who acquire decrepit properties through Fannie Mae's heedless bulk sales.
Every workday, the decrepit station has to accommodate three times as many people as it was designed for, Mr. Cuomo said.
He's even accused the FBI of intentionally limiting the effectiveness of its FOIA officers by continuing to use decrepit, antiquated technologies.
Hence the wistful sequences, at the back end of the story, with a decrepit Russell confined to a wheelchair, in prison.
The film shows the egg-yellow van gradually growing more decrepit over the years, surrounded by bags of rubbish and excrement.
And even if your decrepit, unreliable laptop needs a replacement desperately, you're probably telling yourself it's either that ... or a vacation.
Now, put that decrepit giant squid into an exhibition about the oceans, and I guarantee you it'll stay with people forever.
His constituency was infested with heroin addiction, alcoholism, decrepit housing (his chief concern) and, as the old plants closed down, joblessness.
Where roads are clogged and infrastructure is decrepit, the rival firms are melding warehouses and local outposts into idiosyncratic distribution networks.
Both Uganda and Kenya have been using a decrepit, narrow-gauge railway line built about a century ago by the British.
Carter, because they are older now and more frail (he actually used the word "decrepit"), plan only one year in advance.
Arts | Westchester By 21841, the Italianate painting studio that Thomas Cole had designed for himself in Catskill was in decrepit condition.
"Clifton became very decrepit in the 1960s, and most of the houses were rented out by the room," Mr. Wilson said.
We rebuild the infrastructure of other countries while our own infrastructure has become old and decrepit in far too many places.
Ms. Blunt added in a recent interview that she found it almost surreal to see the once-decrepit property being restored.
Trump told the American people he'd bring the same deal-making approach to the presidency and to rebuilding America's decrepit infrastructure.
Cities like Lima pump much of their effluent into the sea, while others struggle with decrepit networks and inefficient treatment plants.
You know, like a weird decrepit tailor and they just have to have their super loyal customers that keep them going.
Stan has a plan that involves buying a decrepit motor lodge that comes with 500 godforsaken acres on a weedy lake.
It wasn't so out of the ordinary, then, when the decrepit Pavilion theater in Park Slope, Brooklyn, went dark in 2016.
Oh, and there's a decrepit ancient vampire prince who shows up to demand why our leads haven't yet conquered North America.
What's today acres of green space and athletic fields remained a grimy sprawl of parking lots and warehouses on decrepit piers.
They also bribe the police to get out of deadly accidents or allow their decrepit buses to continue along commuter routes.
While taking an Uber through Cholon, Jean pointed out a trio of early 20th-century shophouses, slightly decrepit but charming still.
ET. It'll be happening at Risky Reels, a decrepit drive-in movie theater situated just to the west of Frenzy Farm.
Hamas pragmatists accept that a fourth war would be ruinous for Gaza, which is already suffering from decrepit infrastructure and awful services.
It has a byzantine tax regime, high domestic borrowing costs and a decrepit power grid that makes private generators a costly necessity.
The men's bathroom is notoriously decrepit, but the bartenders are a delight, the pours are strong, and everyone always has fun here.
After waiting in the spooky line, guests check into the fictional Hotel Hightower, a decrepit Art Deco masterpiece that's seen better days.
Once-decrepit Bryant Park now hosts corporate-sponsored ice skating in the winter and classic films on the lawn in the summer.
Delusion is an interactive, immersive theater experience: audiences step into an decrepit, abandoned mansion and assume the role of the lead characters.
Infrastructure is a major challenge: as well as decrepit roads, trains are a rarity and flights are notorious for delays and cancellations.
Employees in the decrepit strip mall regarded Glitz, which used to open long after they closed for the day, with mild suspicion.
Chances are, we are looking at bilateral exaggeration here: You are not quite so hot, nor they as decrepit, as they maintain.
Ritzy apartment buildings and trendy hotels went up in formerly decaying areas like downtown and Hollywood, turning decrepit blocks into lavish playgrounds.
Because of years of sanctions, Iran's commercial airline fleet is so decrepit and unsafe that many people fear flying on the planes.
And Trump himself expressed Monday that he felt he could turn the images of decrepit inner cities into a winning campaign issue.
The investigation reported decrepit conditions including leaking ceilings, maggots in living-room carpet, and raw human sewage coming from a kitchen sink.
"The Women of Brewster Place" (1982) presented seven interlocking narratives, each centered on a different woman living in a decrepit housing project.
That's when the scrappers came in, ravaging the historic building for metal, destroying its ornate beauty and leaving it blighted and decrepit.
One visitor, he said, had been picked up by city police by mistake and dumped in a decrepit, foul-smelling refugee shelter.
Its decrepit aircraft have crashed, been blacklisted by the American military for smuggling opium and refused entry to Europe for safety deficiencies.
It flies decrepit planes that sometimes bear the marks of their many previous lives: exit signs in Swahili; emergency instructions in Russian.
There's something charming–life-affirming, even–about the skeleton meme, the decrepit former person who nevertheless goes out and seizes the day.
Editing together a generation's worth of cinema, Saghari and Talooni highlight the fragility of their material: the corrupted textures of decrepit videotape.
In past years, she has slept in a decrepit, mice-infested Airstream with a door that could be locked only from outside.
The owners replaced a decrepit sun porch off the dining room with a screened porch that faces north, toward their large garden.
But after 263, managers or employees often clubbed together to buy frequently decrepit state enterprises, while other entrepreneurs started businesses from scratch.
Most of his biggest titles were those he acquired and renovated, like decrepit houses with good bones, rather than started from scratch.
Nonetheless, immigrant rights groups expressed concern on Friday that the latest plan would result in the warehousing of migrants in decrepit centers.
Some elected officials blame the State of New Jersey, which, unlike many other states, does not provide financial help for decrepit graveyards.
Other walls are painted with alternating stripes of yellow and maroon, which closely resembles rust and gives the building a decrepit air.
Like incarceration, eviction can brand a person for life, making her an undesirable tenant and condemning her to ever more filthy, decrepit housing.
Even after finding new RAM, HDD and a suitable power adapter for the decrepit T603, I still couldn't bring it back to life.
New York's LaGuardia Airport is using a $4 billion P3 structure, working with LaGuardia Gateway Partners to renovate the airport's decrepit central terminal.
Venezuela is suffering from a roughly 85 percent shortage of medicines, decrepit hospital infrastructure, and an exodus of doctors during a brutal recession.
"I can keep going," Odessa Young tells the photographer at our late August shoot in a decrepit former rectory in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
They are gathered in a windowless meeting room in Kuala Lumpur's decrepit centre to bemoan the Election Commission's (EC) redrawing of constituency boundaries.
Lenny's armpit hair solely exists to quickly and efficiently signal how decrepit her "body" is and to remind you she's basically evil incarnate.
A descendant, Gerlinde Pommer, has refused in recent years to sell the increasingly decrepit building to the Austrian government or to undertake repairs.
Half-finished, decrepit structures sat for years on the land that was meant to be the largest amusement park in all of Asia.
To help restore a decrepit, overgrown area of Prospect Park in Brooklyn this summer, Larry and Anna Cihanek evaluated more than 150 candidates.
The horseman arrives at a decrepit cluster of buildings — they look like 19th-century factories or government offices — where two astronauts await him.
It means making shelters safe and closing notoriously decrepit "cluster site" apartments in private buildings so they can be renovated for permanent housing.
The city administration pledged to repair all decrepit buildings on these avenues, but paperwork delayed the fixes until three months before the tournament.
PMQ's previously decrepit residential complex now houses studios and boutiques run by nearly 100 local entrepreneurs, selling fashion, accessories, home goods and crafts.
Jordan Casteel paints the street life of Harlem and its black residents, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer the quirky, and often decrepit, trappings of whiteness.
Harrison Barnes is the Golden State Warriors' analogue for the near-dynastic Heat's browbeaten Mario Chalmers, or the late Lakers' decrepit Derek Fisher.
I learned that I was China's most wanted criminal while having my hair cut aboard a crowded, decrepit steamboat on the Yangtze River.
The apartments are tucked away in mostly decrepit, private buildings, and homeless families have simply blended in with people who are not homeless.
We watch her have a day — she visits her mentally absent mother, buys some clothes and, for kicks, a decrepit old movie palace.
We watch her have a day — she visits her mentally absent mother, buys some clothes and, for kicks, a decrepit old movie palace.
So I went to the emergency room at Cork University Hospital, a strangely decrepit institution, given the prosperity of Ireland at the time.
Petworth residents credit the new 64,000-square-foot Safeway, which replaced an old, decrepit one in 2014, with vastly improving the neighborhood's livability.
"It's part of the North's efforts to improve its decrepit conventional weapons systems, now that it has completed a nuclear arsenal," he said.
To distract him from all this, Shaolin invites Zeke and the guys to a different kind of party, leading them to a decrepit warehouse.
The second change is that firms have had to adapt to a decrepit tax code that is stuck in the 1980s, before business globalised.
But the decision has been forced by the increasingly decrepit and dangerous condition of the airport's sole runway, which has ruptured in several places.
A sprawling site formerly used by the UK Ministry of Defence, Longcross is surprisingly decrepit considering it's only been used for movies since 2006.
"Most of these pools are broken-down, decrepit or out-dated and are basically just a hole in the ground," the Extra host says.
Nigeria is pushing to refurbish its decrepit refineries, as the country is still mainly dependent on exporting crude oil for imports of refined products.
Local officials then often use the funds for "shantytown redevelopment", a longstanding policy to tear down decrepit housing and replace it with newer structures.
Sulu (Vidya Balan) lives in Virar in a cramped and decrepit flat, wears cheap, synthetic sarees, but never stops dreaming of a better life.
Powered by Anger's irresistible style, its six minutes ooze with a decrepit glamour run through a mesh of the arcana of a haunted Hollywood.
Envision the horror of getting into a car accident because you couldn't swerve around a huge pothole in the middle of a decrepit highway.
THE booming voice of Apostle Rodney Chipoyera, the pastor of the Kingdom Prosperity Ministries, fills a decrepit cinema-turned-church in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital.
Over the past few months, the decrepit New York City subway system has gotten more media attention as the horror stories have piled up.
The current Instagram app for Windows Phone, for example, is decrepit and sorely lacking in the latest features — it still doesn't have video support.
Its economy is stagnant, its infrastructure is decrepit, and its political class seeks to absolve itself of blame, regardless of who is in power.
Providence's volunteer firefighters told reporters for the Daily Gazette that the teens wouldn't have been in the area if not for the decrepit building.
He and his son had bought the tractor, along with other decrepit farming equipment, from the remnants of a defunct Soviet-era collective farm.
In the summer of 33, public plazas in Chahuites, Mexico, began overflowing with Central Americans who bore open wounds, foot blisters, and decrepit knapsacks.
China is ready to extend its dominance over the North's decrepit economy, where signs of an emerging market system are also strengthening Beijing's hand.
But marine archaeologists said this week that after a search that spanned decades, the remains of the Endeavour, however decrepit, may have been located.
Much of the city's future rests on a transit system that has fallen into a decrepit state, just as New York's population has boomed.
Toward the south are newer buildings, many of which bloomed from lots so decrepit, residents say, that they were sometimes compared with postwar Berlin.
By the 1950s, these warehouses were mostly being used for storage or sweatshops, and the neighborhood, increasingly decrepit, earned the nickname Hell's Hundred Acres.
Uganda's decrepit healthcare system is riddled with corruption and doctors and nurses frequently complain about shortages of basic supplies like gloves, medicines and vaccines.
KIEV, Ukraine — The scene, captured on video Tuesday, appears like something post-apocalyptic, right down to the decrepit-looking freight train in the background.
At 21968, he started a newspaper called The Weekly Hornet, printing it on a decrepit hectograph machine and recruiting his friends to deliver it.
Generations of Irish-Americans forged iron and steel, built ports and ships, and hauled sugar and molasses in the area's now-decrepit industrial buildings.
Mr. de Blasio's remarks made it clear that there were conflicts in his wanting more funding for education and the city's decrepit public housing.
Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, "Notre-Dame of Paris," published in English as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," informed readers about the building's decrepit condition.
This scheme, by contrast, is all about restoring decrepit machines that look like they've been living in barns, and selling them for truckloads of money.
The work in the exhibition — a mix of photography and sculptural installation — resists this assumption by portraying digital interfaces that are opaque, broken, and decrepit.
The answers are complicated but critical: our infrastructure is decrepit, climate change is intensifying, and population growth will put even more strain on existing facilities.
Some are decrepit industrial complexes like that in Thagaya, but others deal with juicy sectors such as airlines, gems, oil and gas, telecommunications and timber.
Theo Epstein, their general manager, took over a decrepit franchise in 2011, seven years after he built the Red Sox club that busted their curse.
Educators sent us photos of decrepit classrooms and 25-year-old textbooks, and one told us how she soaks old markers to create watercolor paint.
And, like the house itself—standing but decrepit—it is only half-remembered, the sort of amnesia that helps to explain attitudes to immigration today.
It's a decrepit building, full of raw meat, drying out and covered in flies, and pornographic photographs of woman having sexual acts performed on them.
From 21983 to '2053, David Wojnarowicz and Mike Bidlo took over a decrepit Hudson River pier to create a collaborative and ephemeral alternative art system.
Have you ever used New York City's decrepit subway system and marveled that its speeds that are slower now than they were in the 1950s?
Not only will she be sharing a makeup table with Trog, but she's assigned a decrepit, curtainless van to change in while they're on location.
But none of this matters because an American won't win again until 2047, when a decrepit President-For-Life Kid Rock declares war on Sweden.
Her first project was to paint a mural on what she called "the only place of culture" in Rabka, a decrepit puppet museum for children.
In exchange, the winner would have to invest billions in a company so decrepit that Mexicans never knew whether they would get a dial tone.
We could have had fun with this merrily foulmouthed band of past-their-prime carnival workers, tootling along Southern back roads in a decrepit van.
Why people want to see old, decrepit politicians (or, more accurately, their pornstar doppelgangers) fuck each other is beyond us, but, hey, we're not judging.
But its rail systems are so decrepit that its fastest train, which runs to the Chinese border from Pyongyang, travels at 28 miles an hour.
The overall goal of the so-called congestion pricing plan would be to reduce traffic and raise money to modernize the city's decrepit subway system.
He leased a decrepit Boeing 737, and in June 2000, Lion Air started operations, offering low-cost flights on two of Indonesia's most popular routes.
Charles Glovsky, Schiff's cousin, told me that friends are always advising Schiff to buy nicer suits or less decrepit shoes, but that he isn't interested.
As tourism to the island surges, Cuba's national airline finds itself struggling to acquire enough planes to meet the demand and maintain its decrepit fleet.
Just last year, the Camp Fire—California's most destructive ever, sparked by PG&E's decrepit equipment—razed the town of Paradise nearly to the ground.
Entering a decrepit storage room, Elliot uncovers a key to his bedroom that he hid in its walls way back when he was a kid.
There, the city has installed playground equipment and spruced up parts of Altgeld Gardens' decrepit 1920's-era rec center, including an indoor swimming pool.
In my decrepit condition, I didn't find their number and nature anything to be horrified about, but they were nothing to be excited about, either.
It's not a battery life champion, in other words, but I can almost guarantee you it'll last longer than the decrepit battery in your current Air.
But over the past 290 years, a decrepit little house just off campus at 20123 W. High St. has become the most unlikely of music landmarks.
But what to do when faced with a bridge that's over 2,000 feet tall, made of decrepit wood, and in the middle of the French Alps?
Practicality likewise prevailed in the early 2000s, when Lopez Obrador was Mexico City mayor, and he and Slim teamed up to revitalize the decrepit historic center.
And for all that it now possesses nuclear weapons, Mr Kim's regime is still tinpot and decrepit, atop a mountain of resentment and wasted human lives.
And if that day comes, we'll know that a bunch of decrepit, disused toilets played an essential part in restoring NYC oysters to their rightful place.
The county fair is a little bit trickier if you're trying to forgo the decrepit beer garden full of weird uncles with shriveled tattoos of mermaids.
The school sits not far from countless decrepit and abandoned buildings lining Plank Road, a thoroughfare that serves as a stark reminder of the area's poverty.
Neon letters spelled the word "opera" on a graffiti-covered brick wall near the entrance of the decrepit-looking building, located in an isolated industrial area.
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Lorraine fights several baddies in a decrepit apartment building, smashing, shooting, hitting and even arm-barring them as needed, and they do the same to her.
Last week was branded "infrastructure week" with a series of events dealing with fixing the nation's decrepit roads and bridges, another plank in Trump's jobs platform.
It's a notion confirmed by the presence of the first person we see, a decrepit and isolated woman, listing to one side in a spotlighted wheelchair.
In September, a handful of military vehicles rolled up to government offices and communication centers, and a terse statement announced the end of Libya's decrepit monarchy.
As part of the pitch, Mr. Ranadivé and Mr. Johnson toured a decrepit downtown mall that would be replaced with a new arena for the Kings.
Co-written by and starring Johnny Knoxville as the owner of a decrepit amusement park in New Jersey, it's about as OG Jackass as it gets.
One prospect was a charming but decrepit — it lacked running water — three-family house on Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, an estate sale asking $1.673 million.
The storm knocked out Puerto Rico's fragile power grid, exposing the island's decrepit infrastructure and raising questions about its future viability amid a worsening economic crisis.
My decrepit, shotgun-style one-bedroom in New York City boasts no natural light, is poorly ventilated, and in some places the ceiling is literally crumbling.
Through the black downpour, from night's gloom,Forgetting in haste to shut the taxi door,She will run up the decrepit stairwayFlushed with joy and longing.
His clinic's decrepit central heating system occasionally fails in the middle of winter, prompting parents to keep their children bundled up in snow-suits during consultations.
For the journal Revue Wagnérienne , Mallarmé produced an essay titled "Richard Wagner, Reverie of a French Poet," praising the composer's drastic renovation of decrepit theatrical traditions.
Factories like the decrepit four-story building where Khan and his co-workers lost their lives are a common sight in Delhi's narrow crammed back lanes.
But the reported travel route may reflect Mr. Kim's apparent desire to learn from the experiences of China and Vietnam to develop his country's decrepit economy.
It was an early sign of Puerto Rico's decrepit power grid and its vulnerability to extreme weather, and was an omen of the darkness to come.
They drop off the hospital staff member, who gets a slice of Quinn's cash, and Justine and Quinn drive off to a decrepit house to smoke crack.
From the moment the familiar 20th Century Fox logo flickers and changes to say "26th Century Fox" in decrepit lettering instead, there's a promise of greatness ahead.
General Electric, an American company, has muscled in on a big contract to upgrade Iraq's decrepit electricity grid, which had been earmarked for Siemens, a German firm.
At the Glebelands hostel complex near Durban, an estimated 15,000-20,000 people squeeze into decrepit, low-rise blocks that were built during apartheid to house black workers.
We learn through his memories that he left his wife and young daughter to go sailing, returning years later to find his old house abandoned and decrepit.
It was called The Palms, and sat on the edge of Wonder Valley, where sprawling nothingness was occasionally dotted by the decrepit bones of old homesteader shacks.
We got a taste of what From Software could do with a current-generation console last year, with Bloodborne's decrepit European architecture rendered beautifully on Sony's console.
For example, through cuts to welfare and local government, Mr Osborne is dismantling the Zimmer frame built up by Labour to keep decrepit towns on their feet.
Those closest to me did, however, notice that my two top teeth had shortened and imparted me with a more youthful—or at least less decrepit—smile.
Without a doubt, the summit boosted Kim Jong Un's prestige as a leader of a state — no matter how decrepit and backward — by a couple of factors.
I wasn't really in a creepy, decrepit old farmhouse—just in a press demo room that happened to be modeled after the rooms in said creepy house.
After Mr. Trump rebuilt the decrepit ice skating rink in Central Park, long a symbol of government inefficiency, Mr. Koch felt shown up, his former aides said.
The refugees I've interviewed always insist on feeding me, even if they live in decrepit buildings missing their roofs, or in damp apartments crammed with extended families.
In one sequence, the camera follows a dealer on a scouting trip to a stunningly decrepit apartment off Central Park West belonging to a recently deceased academic.
Given the choice between him and yet another decrepit white man who popped a Viagra every time he thought about bombing brown people, punk made its choice.
Intrepid fought in World War II — scars from Japanese kamikaze attacks led to its nickname, the U.S.S. Decrepit — but not in the battle being commemorated this week.
In 1967, she married a young lawyer, the eldest son of a well-established clan in Calcutta, and moved to his family's sprawling, if somewhat decrepit, mansion.
" For Mr. Lear, 94, participating in the film is a continuation of a mission to buck the stereotype of the elderly as "decrepit and weak and foolish.
Defectors say factories remain hobbled by electricity shortages and decrepit machinery while many farmers have struggled to meet state quotas because they lack fertilizer and modern equipment.
Scuderia was staffed by a crew of young, wisecracking gear-heads, who, after finishing their shifts, stayed late drinking beer and rehabilitating decrepit old bikes for fun.
Many neighborhoods are still pockmarked by long-abandoned warehouses and decrepit homes, and the population of 302,000 is less than half what it was in the 1950s.
All three women had moved out of the New York City shelter system into what they described as decrepit conditions in Newark through a rental assistance program.
The city's laundry list of nagging problems — decrepit public housing and decaying public transportation systems, for instance — takes some of the shine off of the mayor's successes.
The decrepit buildings of what looks like it once was Tokyo are brightened and concealed by holographic advertisements and bright lights that distract from the rusting exteriors.
One of the most recent reviews asserted that "LOHAN BEACH HOUSE IS A PILE OF ROCKS," and backed up the claim with photos showing a decrepit, abandoned space.
Ripley's poem describes an ailing and decrepit king who, seeking renewal, must embrace the queen, a mother figure whose familiars include savage animals, peacocks, and multi-colored stones.
Now, plans to replace the ramshackle workshops and decrepit homes with office blocks and high-rise apartments threaten the businesses that employ thousands of its 2503 million residents.
If you want to help save our republic, please tackle this — and, as with fixing our decrepit voting machinery, please get other tech billionaires to help out. How?
As Katherine Blunt and Russell Gold reported for the Wall Street Journal, PG&E has known for years about the increasing fire risks around its decrepit, outdated infrastructure.
One action sequence, involving a demon in a decrepit house, is abandoned mid-stride, then hand-waved away much later in a way that just raises more questions.
I was curious about how long the somewhat decrepit sign on the restaurant's façade had been there (the "N" in "HANG" is conspicuously absent), but Lai wasn't sure.
The animated footage starts with a realistic shot of a decrepit plane flying down a deserted dirt road as a tumbleweed rolls by and a rusty streetlight flickers.
Taking matters into her own hands, she decides to rent out an old decrepit warehouse space by the water from a pirate-looking fellow named Burt (Richard Wharton).
"Toast" takes place on a Sunday, in the shabby canteen (James Turner designed the evocatively decrepit set) where the men assemble for smokes and tea on their breaks.
He made a neon sign for the window of his first studio, a decrepit storefront, that reads "The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths" (1967).
The narrative is shared by Lucy, recently deceased but living on in her diary, and her grandniece Justine, who inherits Lucy's decrepit cabin on a lake in Minnesota.
Mama June needs help -- and her family recognized as much when they confronted her in an intervention, which features MJ in a decrepit state ... busted teeth and all.
His guests look either like the generically attractive white women conservatives want dating their sons, or the sort of decrepit reptiles they can trade stories about firearms with.
At the age of twenty, in 1913, he emigrated with a fellow-artist to Paris and settled in a decrepit building—a warren of scruffy studios—in Montparnasse.
The railroad had finally begun ambitious replacement work on the most decrepit tracks, but the jobs would stretch out for a year or more to accommodate other demands.
Donut: The rainbow sprinkles got wet and started to bleed down my arm and into the base of the tub, leaving a pale, decrepit rainbow in their wake.
In his miniatures, Smith aims to recreate the gritty, overpowering atmosphere of urban decay of the cities, like a decrepit back alley filled with rust, rubbish, and graffiti.
There valleys filled with crepuscular winter light; there decrepit resorts amid the pines; there the sublime Manhattan skyline at dusk; there the lone, low drift of a gull.
Literally, that means the East Village of Manhattan and, specifically, the area around Tompkins Square Park, where Mr. Oliver was the last remaining tenant of a decrepit boardinghouse.
But all the scenes whether the grand but decrepit spiral stair in "Staircase Old," or the untitled image of a slovenly library devoid of furniture — suggest messy aftermaths.
Because the slum's footpaths were too muddy and decrepit for a wheelchair, the other boy carried his disabled friend every day, to and from school, on his back.
That can only happen if we begin to teach that scorn, division, and want of forbearance will not nourish a single hungry child or rebuild a decrepit highway.
In 1968, his parents inherited the 92-acre tract but found it hard to maintain, with its overgrowth, decrepit buildings and rare trees that his grandfather had bought.
But who would suggest that the North's decrepit 70 submarines were a match for America's 10 super-high-tech subs lurking in the seas off the Korean coast.
Since 2011, Mr. Gilbert has spent more than $265 billion on downtown Detroit, buying up 273 decrepit properties and rehabilitating them in an effort to lure new tenants.
In Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf has been clear that her city cannot afford to subsidize a new stadium to replace the aging and decrepit Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
Jerry Brown's push to raise more than $5 billion a year to fix decrepit roads and bridges lies with a handful of centrist lawmakers in the California Legislature.
Mr. Magowan's most significant achievement was building Pacific Bell Park (now called Oracle Park), a waterfront stadium that replaced windy, decrepit Candlestick Park, the team's home since 21986.
And while there is no curatorial theme uniting the exhibiting artists together, many have nonetheless reacted to the decrepit confines of their galleries by producing wonderfully terrifying art.
The whole idea that we were even at my dad's funeral was whacked, and nothing, not even a decrepit Hip cover, could really ruin what was already happening.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Boxy Russian-built Lada automobiles still rattle around Cuba, growing more decrepit by the year, a reminder of vanished Soviet patronage for the Communist-led island.
But the Constitution is a decrepit 21787-year-old political compromise that can and should be changed, and the natural-born citizen requirement is among its stupider provisions.
There are several places you can do this in episode two—atop a decrepit boat in the junkyard, on a bench in the quad—that serve as breathing room.
Many of the homes are currently in decrepit condition, and owners must promise to renovate the property within three years for at least €15,000, which exchanges to about $17,100.
"Did you ever feel like that?" she asks Berry, who broke free in 2013 after 10 years held captive with two other young women in a decrepit Cleveland home.
Hurricane Maria exposed these shortcomings, as well as latent problems with the island's already decrepit power lines (which take power from plants to homes) and PREPA's $3 billion debt.
While LaGuardia is notorious for its decrepit conditions, Kennedy Airport is in better shape, but still ranks 59th out of the top 100 airports in the world, Cuomo said.
The Sill also offers detailed guides to "Plant Parenthood" on its website, so you can educate yourself even if you inherited your decrepit snake plant from a former roommate.
A raw American nationalism, dedicated to rebuilding not only a depleted manufacturing base but also committed to renewing American cities, improving decrepit infrastructure and looking out for American workers.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Almost all the students in Columbia University's MFA Visual Arts program have demanded full tuition refunds due to decrepit facilities and absentee instructors.
But the institutions of government are withering, starting with the moribund and morally decrepit Republican Party, the wound that allowed Trump to enter the body politic and hijack it.
She took over a small decrepit foundry in a 19th-century building on the Rue de Grenelle in St.-Germain-des-Prés and restored it to its original glory.
And in a wide shot taken from farther back, the fire appears to have grown amongst the numerous graffiti tags and red Solo cups littering the decrepit theater floor.
For example, he was able to document the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn all the way from shuttered and decrepit to its re-opening after a $95 million-dollar renovation.
Image and text work together to summon traces of vanished loves and lives, often using such starting points as a vintage dress, an Instagram feed, and a decrepit house.
At their April meeting, Mr. Moon also offered help with the modernization of the North's decrepit railways and highways, as an incentive for the North to abandon nuclear arms.
For decades, a pile of money that would climb to $160 billion was managed out of a decrepit warren within the Municipal Building on Centre Street in Lower Manhattan.
Rikers Island, New York's most notorious jail, is a decrepit monument to an era of mass incarceration that robbed generations of black, Hispanic and other Americans of their humanity.
Like its twin ride on the East Coast, the Tower of Terror was found inside a tall building called The Hollywood Tower Hotel, which was designed to look decrepit.
Here, a prepubescent girl with a body not unlike Degas's little dancer, is shown clothed in and surrounded by gold, standing in the dusty yard of a decrepit house.
There was a New Zealand diorama—a plaster meadow littered with decrepit stuffed sheep, as well as an emu and a kiwi bird—that had become infested with moths.
At the same time, international isolation and difficult financial realities led to the rampant defection of top baseball stars, the decrepit condition of stadiums and a shortage of equipment.
Hordes of zombies will come at you as you run through the Arizona desertscape, weaving through decrepit cabins, abandoned cars, and underground tunnels in search of your safe haven.
Around the time I started putting this record together, I was thinking about my experience living in Philly and all of the city's desolate areas and decrepit old buildings.
Abroad, the intent is to hide North Korea's immense weakness: no credible nuclear deterrent yet despite the recent progress, a backward army, a decrepit economy and a small, underfed population.
On Thursday, Brady posted a photo of himself standing next to a skeleton decoration made in Manning's image, complete with a No. 18 jersey worn on the decrepit mannequin's torso.
Developers also paid for a new 20,000-square-foot public park, to replace a decrepit concrete one that had been on Second Avenue in what's effectively the school's front yard.
Several days later, at 7:30 one September morning, he bumped down the road in his decrepit Maruti Gypsy jeep, its suspension squeaking as it hit ruts in the road.
Voter registration, a vast and complex exercise in a country as decrepit as Congo, is under way, but it cannot take place in Kasai while things there are so dangerous.
Much like the shack behind the baseball field in 13 Reasons Why, the flimsy, decrepit building, deemed the "end zone," has been used by athletes to "hang out" with girls.
Since the franchise and the city of Oakland couldn't agree on terms to finance a replacement for the decrepit Oakland Coliseum, the Raiders have been forced to explore other options.
The city has come to epitomize the state of the nation's decrepit infrastructure and the failure of government agencies to protect the public, especially when they're poor and non-white.
Today, 2101 million gallons of toxic sludge from the dawn of the nuclear age still sit in decrepit tanks at Hanford, waiting for the government to build a remediation plant.
Even if a newish city doesn't have a decrepit tangle of old sewage pipes or plague victims under its streets, it can still benefit from doing a GPR deep dive.
In one of their first marquee efforts, they extended a major tax break to Trump to redevelop the decrepit Commodore Hotel near Grand Central Terminal, working with the Hyatt Corporation.
" All this seems less true today, thanks to Sanders and Trump, who for all their many differences have combined to expose the most decrepit of American "infrastructures," the Beltway "establishment.
Critics say 5-Star has made little if any progress since taking office in resolving Rome's myriad problems, including a decrepit transport network, pot-holed roads and inefficient garbage service.
In 2013, the biggest initiative of his second term, a $1.9-billion plan to improve Massachusetts's decrepit infrastructure, transit, and education systems, financed by a tax increase, failed to pass.
By the time he committed his offenses, "he was living alone in a decrepit and cramped van that had been his home for more than a decade," his lawyers wrote.
But unlike many other decrepit bridges and tunnels in the area, Route 495 is finally getting an overhaul, creating a major challenge for travelers between New Jersey and New York.
The MacBook Air is a decrepit dinosaur—a relic of another time—and when Apple announces a new wave of devices Tuesday in Brooklyn, it will hopefully, finally, kill the Air.
Sure, there are plenty of decrepit farmhouses, and some Mississippian mounds, haunting my home turf, but this roofless stronghold with its soaring window frames evoked a more melancholy, old world abandonment.
Even without decrepit infrastructure, natural gas can leak methane into the atmosphere—for example, when you turn your stove on and it clicks for a few seconds before a flame appears.
Much of the continent's footballing infrastructure is old and shoddy, as a short drive from the AU offices in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to the decrepit national stadium illustrates.
As wildfires burn across the tinder-dry Californian landscape, millions of people have had their electricity turned off by a power company that has refused to fix its decrepit, dangerous equipment.
Its decrepit armed forces could not afford modern warships, submarines and warplanes to carry plentiful missiles, whose utility America had demonstrated with bombing campaigns in the Middle East and the Balkans.
They are also angry at the decrepit state of the remains, with water leaks that have turned the crypts into "piles of bones," according to an expert&aposs assessment in 2011.
"Our art director didn't have to do much to it," Colin said of the location, featuring decrepit walls and isolated surrounds, the layout a labyrinth of endless corridors and foreboding cells.
The former juggernaut is a decrepit and wheezy old banger, not quite on its last legs, but certainly no longer possessing the dynamism needed for sustained high levels of economic growth.
The severely overcrowded wooden fishing boat described by survivors as "old, decrepit, un-seaworthy" and carrying no life jackets or floatation devices left late last Thursday from Sabratha, Libya, police said.
Deeper systems of fairness—not just what the Constitution allows, or what a judge could conceivably say it allows, or what one's ability to invoke decrepit grievances might allow—were created.
And he has even given his predecessor credit for starting programs that the de Blasio administration has since expanded, such as selling air rights to fix the city's decrepit public housing.
USA Hockey finally has the players to usurp the aging, decrepit Canadian monolith on the Olympic stage in both 2018 and 2022, and the NHL has taken that away from us.
The financing problem is adding uncertainty to a system already burdened by decrepit buildings, teacher disgruntlement, low test scores and a reputation as one of the country's most troubled school districts.
As they meander through a decrepit magical kingdom called "Dreamland," the trio runs into "ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and lots of human fools," according to the Netflix press release.
BERLIN — Thomas Harding, a Briton in his late 40s, led the way into a decrepit single-story wooden structure on an overgrown lakeside plot on Berlin's westernmost border in Gross Glienicke.
After Dud discovers a ring from the Ancient and Benevolent Order of the Lynx on the beach, his car runs out of gas in front of the fraternal order's decrepit lodge.
And who knows — maybe enough people will show up in black, and it will look like a mass funeral, grieving a death of something old and decrepit that needed to die.
Executing a search warrant, officers were stunned by what they found last week: 11 children and five adults subsisting in squalor in a decrepit trailer half buried in the high desert.
The USA is like a palace whose owners chose to spend the last twenty years squandering their money on gaudy decorations and a home theater, rather than fixing its decrepit roof.
Take the opportunity to peek at some of the decrepit old mansions that line the water — huge structures like the Sabiha Hanim Kosku, and the Ragip Pasa Kosku, built in 20.15.
The thieves slipped out of the nearby ranch land and stripped him of his possessions, even taking his sneakers and leaving him with one of the robbers' decrepit, fungus-covered pair.
"It's an aging, decrepit facility that's falling apart structurally and also it's not conducive to house inmates," Commander Joseph E. Dempsey of the Custody Services Division told the Los Angeles Times.
He had invested $25 million to buy the Patriots' stadium, and when an earlier owner, Victor Kiam, offered Kraft triple that to buy the decrepit old building, Kraft turned it down.
The decrepit imperial government was ready for the ash heap of history before its decision in 1914 to enter the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary along with their Ottoman allies.
The generic trappings of such a museum are all there: decrepit typewriters, linotype parts, old broadsheets with toasted edges hollering the death of Stalin or the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Mariam Shaar leads a modest food business in Bourj el Barajneh, a refugee camp south of Beirut, Lebanon, comprising decrepit buildings, narrow alleys and a dangerous overhead mishmash of electrical wires.
When relatives who were recognizably black came looking for him, hospital employees dragged the victim from the examination table to the decrepit Negro ward across the street, where he later died.
Through the careful re-sheathing of the building's interior, its pristine walls were modified to look long-abandoned and decrepit, with signs of furious chemical experimentation alluding to a morbid history.
We gave it some thought, but once we thought of Donkey Kong, and the mine cart levels, we were like, 'Oh, yeah, that happens in like a decrepit, broken down mine.
Enter the Loldiers, to the accompanying tunes of a decrepit accordion and with one clown portraying Odin as a bearded buffoon in a dressing gown and a plastic horned faux-Viking hat.
Fallout 4's latest expansion, Nuka-World, is coming ton August 30, and puts you smack dab in the middle of a decrepit, low-rent Disney World snatched right from your nightmares.
Despite Trump's campaign promise of "a great national infrastructure program," all varieties of American infrastructure — roads, bridges, airports, sewers — are in decrepit condition, and there's nothing in the works to fix that.
In one of the poorest regions of India, children as young as five are part of an opaque supply chain - beginning in Giridih's decrepit mines and ending in Paris' fragrant beauty stores.
Raggi's many critics say she has made little if any progress since taking office in resolving Rome's myriad problems, including a decrepit transport network, pot-holed roads and an inefficient garbage service.
As swathes of Britain's cities are knocked down, dragged away by diggers and replaced with those flats with little glass-fronted balconies, we're quietly losing some of those slightly decrepit-looking areas.
The show, created by the company leader, Daniele Finzi Pasca, and Julie Hamelin Finzi, is structured, loosely and unnecessarily, as a revue to benefit a home for "decrepit" theater and circus artists.
The Reggie Jackson-Drummond roll is sterilized by Morris—who played with Johnson last year and saw his decrepit shot up close on a daily basis—pinching in from the weakside corner.
Classic novels like "The Radetsky March," written by Joseph Roth in 1932, drove home lasting stereotypes of the empire as a decrepit, ramshackle realm unsuited to the modern era of nation-states.
The decrepit-looking Mr. Weinstein, body hunched as he slowly rolls forward, contrasts sharply with his former image as a domineering Hollywood power broker now accused of rape and predatory sexual assault.
The water that bore him up tried to bear him away, but he was caught among the posts of the decrepit wharf and there he was, ready to go and not going.
Toward the end of White, Ellis wonders what Patrick Bateman—the sociopathic financier in American Psycho, who represents the morally decrepit core of capitalism in the Reagan years—would be doing today.
Editorial Of the nearly one million foreclosed houses sold by Fannie Mae, the government-run mortgage giant, since the housing bust, tens of thousands were decrepit, moldy and unfit for human habitation.
Over the years, they've become only more absurd and more ubiquitous, spreading out across my arms, my chest, my feet — vandalism on the decrepit temple that is my 36-year-old body.
In June, when it's planned to reopen, the decrepit station will look nearly unidentifiable, outfitted with new glass canopies, digital screens, mezzanine access, and stairways—except, notably, an elevator for ADA capabilities.
In February 1984, during that period when a succession of decrepit Soviet leaders were dropping like flies, the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, traveled to Moscow to attend the funeral of Yuri Andropov.
One of those strengths is the lanes of Old Delhi, where the film is based and where cinematographer Kai Miedendrop's camera captures every grimy detail, including the overhead wires and the decrepit buildings.
However, there is also a catch here: Many of the homes are currently in decrepit condition, and owners must promise to renovate the property within three years for at least $17,100 (or €15,000).
In an urban slum called Eight Mile, women are relegated to decrepit shacks, caring for their children, who are fighting off a range of illnesses from malaria and dengue fever to skin rashes.
" like, "what if we're filming this, and it doesn't happen, but what if it does, and we'll actually get way better production value as we'll go around shooting like decrepit buildings and shit.
Then there is the "edge of the abyss" Total War game, like 2015's Attila, where a decrepit but salvageable balance of power is poised to unravel in a series of compounding catastrophes.
But truly all you're really thinking about is how fucking ghoulish this mechanized iteration of ol' Abe looks with his bulging eyes, terrifying teeth, peeling face, decrepit beard, and chewed-up stovepipe hat.
Washington (CNN)US nuclear security facilities are dangerously decrepit and putting national security goals at risk, according to nuclear officials who are asking Congress to back the administration's push to modernize the system.
What you need is a decrepit, cracked tombstone that splits apart to reveal a seven-feet tall screaming, flailing ghost leaping out of the ground, clambering at anyone who tripped its motion sensor.
Overgrown lots, many hosting decrepit houses, are popping up in towns and even some big cities across Japan, says Hiroya Masuda, a former minister of internal affairs who helped draw up the report.
In another representation of living history, the decrepit Wayne Rooney found the net with a quick jab of the foot off a cross from Anthony Martial for a goal in the 71st minute.
A New York City imam linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing steered police to the decrepit New Mexico compound where his son was allegedly training school shooters, he told reporters Thursday.
The commercial sex industry in Mumbai, one of the biggest destinations in the country for trafficked women, was once concentrated in decrepit brothels in the Kamathipura and Falkland Road areas in South Mumbai.
Federal laws — now totaling more than 150 million words — stifle ingenuity, micromanage American life and leave us with decrepit infrastructure, failing schools and needless obstacles in the path of entrepreneurship, among other outcomes.
And the American Water Works Association said last June it would cost $215 trillion over 242 years to upgrade the nation's decrepit arteries, not including the removal of lead pipes from private property.
By day, Chaussée develops film for artists at the Niagara Custom Lab in downtown Toronto, a decrepit warehouse full of machines that resemble Phillip Jeffries' satanic tea kettle in Twin Peaks: The Return.
By then the shortcomings of the for-profit real estate market were evident in eviction riots, in sprawling homeless encampments and in cities overflowing with mile after mile of cheap, decrepit frame dwellings.
His accomplishments include the commercial revival of the downtown, a bump-up of 543,254 jobs over his two terms, and the demolition or repair of over 22012,22015 decrepit houses to attack urban blight.
Long before Hurricane Maria ripped into Puerto Rico on September 20, it was clear that one of the island's greatest vulnerabilities was its decrepit, sagging power system almost entirely dependent on fossil fuels.
Students in Mr. Mazur's class laughed uproariously when asked whether they would ever want to live in a place like Ivangorod, the decrepit Russian town on the other side of the Narva River.
North Korea's economy isn't nearly as decrepit as previously thought, and — given its successful test this week of an intercontinental ballistic missile that could put Anchorage within range — time isn't on our side.
The guy is a brilliant comedic actor with dramatic chops whose general lack of aging all but proves he has a decrepit, haunted portrait of himself hidden deep inside a mansion closet somewhere.
If the Cuban Baseball Federation were to use this funding to improve the professional and economic conditions of its players and to refurbish its decrepit facilities, this would be a literal game changer.
For Puerto Rico, that would mean rebuilding the grid back to the same decrepit state that led to the power outages in the first place, and neither Puerto Ricans nor lawmakers want that.
But beneath the veneer of these phlegmatic British musicians are Fat White Family, who look decrepit and sick not necessarily through choice but because they're poor and living on less than £800 a month.
Elsie (played by Shannon Woodward, whom you might recognize from Raising Hope) discovers in a decrepit building in the park evidence that someone named Arnold has been altering the code of first generation hosts.
There is also the fact that, unlike the post-apocalyptic fantasy worlds of the Souls games or Bloodborne's decrepit and ruined Yharnam, you visit the Ashina clan territory in the moment of its decline.
You'd assume all of those would be more popular than posting decrepit aged versions of ourselves, especially since the most popular app filters on Snapchat and FaceTune are geared at making us look younger.
The building, decrepit and unmarked on the outside, gave away nothing about the celebration tucked away in the bowels of the old facility, which had been outfitted with pink confetti and Lyft-branded scooters.
While the eye of the hurricane did not reach the capital, tropical-storm force winds and heavy rains of its outer bands, as well as a storm surge, wrought havoc on its decrepit buildings.
His visit comes at a time when national attention has homed in on a number of health and socioeconomic crises impacting Indigenous peoples across the country — from suicide attempts to illnesses and decrepit housing.
The protesters, who included many white-collar professionals in their 30s working at Chinese technology firms, said they were outraged after district authorities suddenly reassigned their children to a school in a decrepit neighborhood.
No bill was passed to address Florida's decrepit sewage systems, which saw mass overflows after Hurricane Irma's flooding—but a bill was passed to allow companies to dump treated sewage into drinking water sources.
The decrepit vehicle is their literal and metaphorical stand-in for civilization, tricked out with a crumbling infrastructure, a ferocious appetite for gasoline, an oversupply of rattling kitchen appurtenances and even some broiling excrement.
Black children at the time were relegated to harsh, decrepit juvenile reformatories, in which, in some cases, more than 80 percent of the kids hadn't committed crimes but were simply would-be foster children.
The Land of Oz has been abandoned for decades, but its decrepit buildings overrun with weeds have attracted urban explorers looking to photograph the eerie ruins of Munchkin Village and the wicked witch's castle.
The first thing she did was install a pool, which was fronted at the time by a decrepit, dirt-floor shed where the previous owner, a local fisherman, once hung his eels to dry.
That includes a woman being brought to orgasm by the idea of her decrepit lover's financial power, and the antihero Merkin solemnly lying to his wife (Miriam Silverman) in the manner of Michael Corleone.
While those systems are the most vulnerable to attack, and the most decrepit part of the force, they are also among the most politically popular in Congress, because they provide jobs in rural areas.
With angry red lines spider-webbing the whites of her eyes, Bell seems most at home on a barstool or passed out in her car or on the floor of her decrepit, loveless house.
Helen Post Curry, the architect's great-granddaughter, has been a vocal advocate for bringing back the Gilbert-designed buildings on the campus, which, despite their decrepit appearance, have been found to be structurally sound.
As decrepit industrial enclaves wait for some new deal to replace the yanked promises of their glory days, one might forgive the billion-dollar incentives with which they try to recapture their lost prosperity.
Sidora flees their isolated homestead for her mother's decrepit room in town, where an old wound is laid bare—Sidora's love for another man, Saro, whom her mother considered unfit for her to marry.
Unclear. The bigger question is if you're making clones why do they all look old and decrepit instead of lively like the top-notch life forms that were created in "Attack of the Clones"?
During Mr. Obama's second term, the ground-based force came under withering criticism over the training of its crews — who work long, boring hours underground — and the decrepit state of the silos and weapons.
Aside from the new clubhouse, the project includes 20 resurfaced tennis courts, replacing Crotona Park's old, decrepit ones, with half of the new courts enclosed during cold months by a bubble for indoor play.
For the past few years, Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, who is now in charge of vital parts of the president's agenda, has been a landlord of often decrepit low-income housing.
There is a whole multi-cottage industry dedicated to the buying and selling of decrepit towns, many of which, like the Goop-endorsed Lugo village, are in Galicia, in the northwest region of Spain.
Even so, the Bertha doll has a life of its own in the novel, a work of art that is ignored, loved, mocked and admired, that disappears and reappears, worn and decrepit and important.
Exploring that weird old house that everyone tells stories about: Every town has that house—that decrepit old place where someone got ax-murdered, or that everyone claims is inhabited by an inhuman creature.
Consider the backdrop of Guangzhou, where decrepit buildings crumble next to new skyscrapers — there is much implied, again, about the shifting tides of China's economy — and where the cosplayers will have to grow up.
It was a cheap buzz that could be had for pennies on any decrepit street corner stand or in the bowels of some stinking cellar—and it quickly wrecked havoc on inner city London.
"The mayor can't place a monitor on the governor's decrepit state prisons, or his failing upstate jobs programs, or on the water supply in Hoosick Falls," said Eric F. Phillips, Mr. de Blasio's press secretary.
"Rain" took place in a decaying concrete access tunnel just off The Globe Theatre's basement dance floor, with a video projection screen creating the illusion of being inside a decrepit building while rain poured outside.
Aurora turned the concept of a generation ship on its head, following a decrepit interstellar ship sailing for a moon in the Tau Ceti system, while New York 2140 examines the economics of climate change.
A decrepit couch, a rusted stroller, and torn-up Chilean flags sat outside her front door, in a makeshift encampment on the fringes of the Atacama desert, the driest place on earth outside of Antarctica.
Public outrage over the tainted water in Flint and the decrepit schools in Detroit has led many people to question whether the state has overreached in imposing too many emergency managers in largely black jurisdictions.
" At another rally across town, teacher Elizabeth DiMartino said classrooms at her school in the San Fernando Valley had been decrepit for so long that "people think this bare minimum is normal in Los Angeles.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States scoffed on Friday at Venezuela's accusation that it was poisoning humanitarian aid, and urged allies to stop the "decrepit, dictatorial regime" of President Nicolas Maduro from chairing U.N. arms talks.
Last year alone—the deadliest on record—5793,579 refugees died on the journey, the victims of unscrupulous smugglers who dispatch them into the turbulent seas on decrepit boats with no navigational instruments, food, or water.
In Lavasa, the other risk of greenfield cities is apparent: housing just a fraction of its intended population, its formerly posh clubhouse and convention center look decrepit, and its technology and infrastructure are visibly crumbling.
Anger swirled about the decrepit state of New York City's subway system; despite the governor's efforts to pin the blame on Mayor Bill de Blasio, it ultimately has settled on Cuomo, where it largely belongs.
What may be less obvious is that the decrepit state of our infrastructure provides an opportunity to create lasting infrastructure that's not just suitable today, but serves social and economic needs well into the future.
At the same time, with the Muslim nations most on the frontline of this war, we must hollow out and nullify the jihadi ideology and show it for what it is: a decrepit death cult.
Last week, for the first time in a decade, a South Korean train rolled into North Korea in order to conduct a study on the possibility of connecting North Korea's decrepit railways to South Korea's.
In most places, the decrepit utility monopoly model remains in place, and distributed energy depends on special policy carve-outs like net metering (which, as UBS notes, works against the value of home energy storage).
This was a decrepit apartment in the Bronx that New York City currently uses as shelter for homeless families, and a family I met was desperate to live there because it was better than nothing.
Most likely, they were in on the constructed back story, the same way people clap in delight whenever the decrepit chanteuse Kiki DuRane, a creation of Justin Vivian Bond, brings up her estranged son, Bradford.
Shimla's decrepit network of water pipes, built under British colonial rule more than 260 years ago, depends on the civil servants known as key men to open and close the valves that supply each neighborhood.
Art Review New York, New York, is the city so nice it got two of everything: two baseball teams, two decrepit airports and now two riverside art galleries designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano.
Based on a detailed statistical analysis, the judge, David G. Larimer, concluded that black inmates were assigned the worst prison jobs, housed on the most decrepit cellblocks and disciplined out of proportion to their numbers.
No city officials are going to say they approve of illegal parties held in decrepit warehouses, but some acknowledge privately that underground spaces are part of how cities work and are likely to remain so.
Demonstrations during southern Iraq's sweltering summer months have therefore become something of a ritual in recent years, as residents lament decrepit public services and rampant corruption amid daytime temperatures of more than 123 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is young whites, like James Alex Fields Jr. in Virginia and Dylan Roof in South Carolina — not old, decrepit KKK members — who are the prime perpetrators of racially motivated violence in the United States.
Anyone tired of the disdainful clichés lobbed at classical institutions might initially look askance at LoftOpera, one of a number of small-scale New York companies that advertise themselves as alternatives to a decrepit establishment.
New York City is considering a new fee on for-hire vehicles at a time when the state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority is in dire need of money to overhaul the city's decrepit subway system.
America's coal industry is never coming back: Trump's presidential campaign was filled with promises to revive American's decrepit coal industry, but as numerous energy experts have indicated in recent years, this ship has sailed for good.
ROME, April 16 (Reuters) - The three metro stops serving the heart of Rome are shut because of decrepit escalators, a new blow to a city already struggling with a garbage crisis, potholed roads and tumbling trees.
Set in a decrepit mansion in backwoods Louisiana, you maneuver a walking nightmare in the confined, anxiety-inducing rooms and hallways of the house while stalked by a murderous family infected by an alien-like bacteria.
Prior to the hurricane, Puerto Rico was already struggling with $72 billion in debt, a flight of residents to the U.S. mainland and aging infrastructure, including a decrepit power grid that was incapacitated by the storm.
We won't get into that person that doesn't deserve a text back from you, but we will scold you for putting up with that decrepit six-year-old laptop that makes work harder rather than easier.
Oxley was so moved that he bought the then decrepit building with a view of restoring it and the small stage in the back to what they were, and staging musical events for the local community.
The two of them sparred in the city's overheated mediasphere over a vast array of tabloid-friendly issues, such as topless women in Times Square, the death of a deer, and the city's decrepit subway system.
During his campaign, Trump promised a 10-year, trillion-dollar program to modernize decrepit infrastructure - a plan that holds bipartisan appeal because of its job-creating potential, and that will require backing from the U.S. Congress.
HAVANA (Reuters) - After Hurricane Irma wrought havoc on Havana's decrepit buildings and killed four in building collapses there, city authorities held a rare media briefing to stress they were prioritizing solving the capital's longstanding housing needs.
Invitations to have tea, eat and spend the night quickly followed, which was good because there was nothing resembling a hotel in the entire valley, aside from two decrepit rest houses where government workers occasionally stayed.
The Venezuelan director Jorge Thielen Armand's film, set among the struggle of Venezuela's ongoing economic crisis, is centered on a young father who learns that the decrepit mansion his family squats in will soon be demolished.
On Friday, a South Korean train crossed the North Korean border for the first time in a decade; it will be used in a field study on the possibilities for renovating the North's decrepit rail system.
Supporters had expressed hope that the agreement would salvage and transform New York City's public housing, providing additional oversight and an infusion of cash to overhaul the decrepit living conditions in many of Nycha's 176,000 apartments.
And then there are the decrepit stations, which are unpleasant at best; for people in wheelchairs or with baby strollers, they're hostile terrains of leaky passageways and steep stairs, with few operational elevators to be found.
"An increase in VAT will worsen our decrepit economy and put more pressure on families and business as it will result in (an) increase in costs of goods and services," said the PDP in a statement.
Looking at the doubled images, you imagine that the mind of the person pictured is literally occupied by space on which it is overlaid: the decrepit school buildings, the grass where a demolished school once stood.
Mr. Lukashenko used the money to prop up his so-called zombie factories, hopelessly outdated and decrepit industrial enterprises that allowed him to boast that he was the only post-Soviet leader who kept industry afloat.
The film uses allegories to convey its message – a well that Vinayak has to lower himself into to get the treasure, the bloodied monster who consumes everything in sight, and the decrepit mansion that houses him.
During the winter of 2003, Maddy (Ali Rose Dachis), her brother Bobby (Charlie Thurston) and their friend Los (Jorge Eliézar Chacón) meet on a decrepit Long Island Railroad platform to discuss Sour Patch Kids, life and fate.
The Berlin-based artist transformed the upscale art gallery into what he imagined the space looked like before the gallery moved in — a decrepit Chinese-owned business with a peeling awning, broken ATM, and metal folding chairs.
The city of Dubuque had been buying up decrepit properties in a lower-income portion of Dubuque called the Washington Neighborhood, renovating them and then selling them for a lower price than several other homes in Dubuque.
On Friday, the Rolling Stones became the first major international rock band to play in Cuba, drawing hundreds of thousands of people to a free concert at a decrepit sports complex on the road to the airport.
They may have been obsessed with capital allocation, but they bought into deeply unfashionable things, from decrepit cable-TV networks in rural America (John Malone at TCI), to the makers of Twinkies (Bill Stiritz at Ralston Purina).
Dan Tana's is the one that jumps to mind for me—this Italian restaurant is bathed in red light, under which decrepit men in tuxedos gamely serve you only the finest selection of pastas and adult beverages.
Laura is half in love with him even as she settles down eagerly enough to motherhood and a life spent "yielding" to Henry in a decrepit farm that is only ever one storm away from total collapse.
When West Germany swallowed up a decrepit East, it was seen as a crowning western triumph in the Cold War: the Communist police state that imprisoned dissidents and shot escapees was assimilated to its successful, democratic neighbor.
I still remember now, the tender underscore of his slow ballads fusing with this decrepit imagery of melting Mars Bars, shit stained toilets in run-down diners and the crazed, bulging, dying figure of the man himself.
The Magnolia empire was still a glimmer in the Gaineses&apos eyes, but the decrepit farmhouse the couple renovated for a Baylor professor and his wife turned out to be one of their most impressive projects ever.
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberian President-elect George Weah on Tuesday set modest goals for his six-year term, calling for Liberia to start exporting crops and repairing decrepit infrastructure, in his first interview since winning election last week.
M-Pesa could transform Ethiopia's economy, as it has done in Kenya, by allowing people to sidestep a decrepit and inefficient banking system and send each other money and make payments at the touch of a button.
In 1798, famous Scottish architect Robert Adam used the stone from Seton Palace to build a new house for Alexander MacKenzie, who bought the decrepit former palace in the late 1700s and hired Adam to repurpose it.
As Clare Kitson reveals, in her 2005 book, "Yuri Norstein and 'Tale of Tales,' " Norstein, born in 1941, was raised in a Moscow suburb, in a kommunalka —an apartment in a decrepit residence, shared with other families.
Abruptly, Maddy leaped free of Todbaum's BMW, that decrepit father-poisoned vault of a car, or so it felt now, then opened the rear door and swung her titanic backpack onto the curb, before I could help.
The authorities in Moscow intend to re-house over 1 million citizens living in decrepit Soviet-era apartments, which they plan to demolish, in new high-rise blocks of flats as part of a 15-year programme.
This killed a booming market for old bicycles in Russia's far north but created a new market for cheap and decrepit Russian cars with just enough life left in them to limp across the border to Finland.
Games like 2013's psychiatric hospital-set Outlast, on the other hand, err on the opposite end of the spectrum when portraying mental illness, wholeheartedly adopting tropes involving the criminally insane and abandoned, decrepit mental health institutions.
In an all-but-lost era in South Boston, before glassy condos and a showcase harbor replaced mean streets and a decrepit waterfront, Mr. Bulger dominated the rackets and folklore in that Irish-American working-class enclave.
Grievous loss also afflicts Katrin (Anna Gunndis Gudmundsdottir) and her husband, Gardar (Thorvaldur David Kristjansson), who — with a friend, Lif (Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir) — have started renovating a decrepit house in Iceland's remote and stunningly stark Westfjords region.
Nobody seems to think it's particularly strange that an old lady with a funny haircut and a young man in dark glasses and a fedora would want to paste huge pictures to the walls of decrepit structures.
He pointed out relics of Vieques's richest days, when Europe couldn't get enough of the sugar the island produced: a decrepit pier near Esperanza and a rusted 19th-century railway engine that had hauled the sugar cane.
Letter To the Editor: Re "Cuomo Weighs State of Emergency for New York City Public Housing" (news article, March 13): City Hall and Albany are both at fault for the New York City Housing Authority's decrepit condition.
Mr. Murphy made no direct mention of two of the state's most pressing issues: its large public pension liability and its decrepit transportation system, especially the chronic complaints about the reliability of New Jersey Transit's commuter trains.
It was one of the worst airline crashes in Cuba, which has been struggling to operate with a decrepit fleet of planes that it has blamed partly on the longstanding economic embargo imposed by the United States.
Similarly, watching "Endgame" in this incarnation, I found a creepy new pertinence in its depiction of a blighted, blasted world beyond the single, decrepit room in which Hamm, Clov, Nagg and Nell live (barely) in virtual captivity.
History provides some guide to the politics: In 2008, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg withdrew a plan to replace the most decrepit jails on Rikers with modern facilities in the Bronx after meeting with fierce grass-roots opposition.
Even as the Acea website boasts "Roma, Regina Aquarum" (Rome, Queen of the Waters), its system has become so decrepit that about 2312 percent of the water is stolen, spills out underground or pools onto the street.
When he met Mr. Kim in April and September 2018, Mr. Moon presented bold ​plans for inter-Korean economic cooperation, including the reopening of the Diamond Mountain tour resort​ and the rebuilding of the North's decrepit railways​.
Suburban-raised, Stanford-educated, Mr. Booker, 22009, had begun his political career in Newark by moving into decrepit public housing to earn his inner-city bona fides, a story replayed on documentary film even before his election.
The shelters, they say, are worse than a jail cell—not only decrepit, but dangerous: You sleep with one eye open to protect yourself against someone swiping your things or an overnight warrant raid by the NYPD.
Though themes of a crumbling and decrepit society remain, it's clearer that the impact of so many friends, lovers, and strangers dying around him, and his own eventual diagnosis in 1987, began to eclipse other subject matter.
Now, as I approach retirement from this genre defined by its hyper-fast reflex gameplay—at the decrepit age of twenty-seven—I find myself reflecting on the games, history, and culture that brought me to this point.
Definitely would not have been my first choice—but hey, I'm also not the business genius who's so good at moneying that guy-famous-for-being-wealthy Warren Buffet literally wants my blood coursing through his decrepit veins.
But while the governor has some real problems — like the decrepit subways and ethical concerns — in many ways he is also the most experienced politician in New York State, and he has a solid record to run on.
Authorities in Moscow intend to resettle millions of citizens from decrepit Soviet-era apartment blocks into modern high-rise flats, but concerns about how people will be rehoused are upsetting voters ahead of a presidential election in 2018.
More than 100,000 have been forced to live in decrepit internally-displaced persons camps following previous bouts of communal violence, and hundreds of thousands have made perilous journeys by sea and land in their bid to flee persecution.
But its decrepit economy, which forces thousands of young Eritreans to flee every year, most of them to Europe, and the prospect of relief from international sanctions could give the government an incentive to stick to the deal.
Similarly, in Michigan, Flint's nightmare of contaminated water has its roots in a decrepit local water system that was built decades ago during boom times, and is now too costly for the shrunken city to fix or replace.
For a time, Mexican and Canadian investors poured money into the decrepit telephone company (owned by ITT until it was nationalized by Mr. Castro in 703), mining operations and other enterprises, which helped keep Cuba's economy from collapsing.
The nation, one of the world's poorest, is slated to hold an election this year to choose its Parliament and president, but security fears and the decrepit state of public institutions mean that citizens will not vote directly.
It was an architectural triumph, with escalators that plunged into clean, well-lit stations — a mass transit marvel "like 'The Jetsons,' " he says — a far cry from the graffiti-scarred, decrepit system of that era in New York.
We had convinced ourselves it was a perfectly sensible idea to drive a borrowed, decrepit van from Calgary, Canada, to Detroit and back again to see the legendary Christian metalcore band Underoath play one of its last gigs.
It got a hard-on all the same to see a woman without her clothes, even a decrepit one; though perhaps the hard-on came from the pistol he had aimed at her face and had not fired.
In suits with matching handbags — their mothers had stuffed their suitcases "like a trousseau," Ms. Saleh recalled — they were disappointed by the decrepit condition of the Bolshoi studios, especially in contrast to their brand-new institute in Cairo.
Across the Arkanabad slum — named after the old designation for Myanmar's present-day Rakhine State — decrepit shanties with temporary walls, often with no doors and windows and unsteady corrugated roofs, serve as homes to more than 100,000 Rohingya.
It was through a local news listing in 2015 that I found out about the sale of a now-decrepit home in Georgetown that Julia Child had once owned, which I wrote about for an article published today.
The evening opened with Mr. Nézet-Séguin conducting Leonard Bernstein's overture to "West Side Story," as a video montage showed decrepit buildings being removed, and animated projections depicted the halls of Lincoln Center rising in an uplifting surge.
The Raiders have said they want to move to Nevada because they have failed for years to find a replacement for their home, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, one of the oldest and most decrepit stadiums in the league.
Photos of railroad tracks leading to distant smokestacks belching black threads into the sky are paired with photos of children sitting under old Soviet statues, girls dancing, men looking out into decrepit courtyards, and kids being, well, kids.
"I was inspired by the bustling 'fly restaurants' of Chengdu, old-school eateries that still dot the city, and despite being run-down and decrepit, are so delicious that they're said to attract people like flies," she says.
Maria Loboda's photographic print of a feather, small bones, and a crocodile purse along with Beth Collar's ghoulish, baby-esque appendages made of mahogany and brass are almost like ceremonial offerings highlighting a cultural moment of decrepit self-commercialization.
With its gloomy home corridors, it's easy to see P.T. had a healthy influence in its presentation, and parallels have been drawn between its decrepit setting and those seen in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes.
It might not be much in the grand scheme of the multi-billion dollar telecommunications industry, but it goes to show that some old and decrepit (and, crucially, shared) technologies still play a key role in many people's lives.
" Jason Baker, vice president for PETA Asia, which has also campaigned for Pizza's release, told CNN that "the lack of animal protection laws in China has allowed some of the most deplorable, backwards and decrepit facilities to continue operating.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia proposes resettling millions of citizens from decrepit Soviet-era apartment blocks into modern high-rise flats, but concerns about quality, a lack of services and infrastructure could upset voters ahead of a presidential election in 2018.
We drove past spaced-out, low-slung houses and boarded-up businesses — shuttered restaurants, a decrepit gas station — as Iles, an African-American retired lunchroom worker and community activist, guided me toward the muddy banks of the Red River.
Hex House is a tiny, adorable haunted house-as-toybox, a sweet little diorama that demands you poke at it in order to elicit delightful reactions—like little ghosts coming out of graves, or sneezes from the decrepit mailbox.
Pullman's heroine, 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, sprints through a series of thrilling adventures featuring witches, canal-faring gypsies and talking armored polar bears, culminating in a confrontation with a false, decrepit god followed by a four-handkerchief denouement.
"Cabin" has a physical and visual weight similar to Whiteread's 1993 "House," cast from a decrepit Victorian home in London, and her 1998 "Water Tower" that was installed on top of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
We were living in San Francisco, and my mother and I spent weekends going to bars, informal marinas, places along the Carquinez Strait where people docked decrepit houseboats and where machinists would hang out close to the navy yard.
Five years ago, the local government and bishop asked if the artist might come and paint the interior of St. Victor, the village's 1,100-year-old Romanesque church, whose plain stone walls had become dull and decrepit over time.
Nineteenth-century groups of intellectuals in both Europe and America, like the German Romantics and the American Transcendentalists (who tended to fetishize "exoticism" and Eastern "mysticism," in contrast to decrepit European "civilization"), developed an interest in all things Indian.
One of Matta-Clark's long-gone masterpieces is "Day's End," a site-specific piece executed without permits on one of the decrepit piers on the Hudson River in the West Village, which then served mainly for assignations among gays.
They find these decrepit mummies, then they go through this time tunnel and end up back in ancient Egypt when the tomb was in operation and people are doing the embalming and sacrificing, and the Egyptian gods are there.
It was an embarrassing stain on a progressive city that for decades had welcomed immigrants fleeing war, famine and poverty only to leave them trapped in an isolated collection of decrepit brick apartment blocks where crime and despair took root.
We do, however, have a few ideas: recent developments suggest the company's going full speed ahead in its quest to replace the humble car radio and your favorite shock jock with its own streaming service, no matter how decrepit your vehicle.
After being sworn in for a fourth term as president in May, Putin said he wants to make upgrading Russia's often decrepit infrastructure one of the priorities of his 2018-13 term as part of a drive to raise living standards.
New York's Town Hall is a janky half-decrepit theater founded by suffragists in 1921, famous for hosting Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and more recently, A Prairie Home Companion, coming to you live from the tourist-scrum of midtown Manhattan.
THERE IS A LIGHT ON MY BIKE THAT NEVER GOES OUT We were off to Edmar, which is decrepit, Polish, and smells like only old grocery stores smell—a little mildew, a little grandma cologne, and the musk of coriander.
The panel shed a bit more light on the nature of the show, and the trailer shows off fleeting glimpses of the decrepit town, invoking some creepy images and plenty of Easter eggs that should be familiar to dedicated King fans.
At 31 years old, old man Michael Phelps became the oldest man to win a gold medal in an individual Olympics swimming event, giving those of us who are only slightly less old hope that our bodies are not yet decrepit.
For my generation, that meant our parents likely never learned to swim because the community pools were legally or illegally designated "Whites Only," or that the one decrepit community pool in their black neighborhood was a cesspool best to be avoided.
At the time, Wershe Jr., played by newcomer Richie Merritt, lived with his father (Matthew McConaughey), a grifter and an illegal firearms dealer, and his sister (Bel Powley), a user of crack cocaine, in a decrepit mansion on Detroit's East Side.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York City Council voted on Thursday to close the city's infamous Rikers Island jail complex by 2026, casting off a detention system plagued by chronic violence and decrepit facilities, as the nation rethinks mass incarceration.
The more parades you run, the more money you make; in turn, you can demolish the "old and decrepit" buildings, replacing them with modern art museums, neon clubs, organic markets, spa centers, and other stereotypical vestiges of the bourgie gay's lifestyle.
While their collaboration was short-lived — cramped by a decrepit piano, he left to enroll at the University of Minnesota, moved to New York and changed his name (again; he had been born Robert Zimmerman) to Bob Dylan — it was transformative.
Like the pan-German mythology of the 1930s, Eurasianism looks to the past to restore decrepit Russia, declaring that its people descended from a unique Slavic and Turkic ancestry, bent on reclaiming their history after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Cummings — who ran the Vote Leave campaign and has described Downing Street's civil service machinery as "decrepit" — is tasked with delivering Brexit by October 31 but many civil servants are reportedly aghast at his calls for a revolution in Whitehall.
The John Muir Trail is part of the Pacific Crest Trail, which my daughter and I are hiking in its entirety, from Mexico to Canada, in the handful of years in which she's strong enough and I'm not yet decrepit.
Guerrero hit a walkoff home run in Montreal, wearing his father's number, standing upon the same sickly green carpet in the same decrepit antique stadium, is sure to be the only Grapefruit League home run any sane person will ever remember.
The internally displaced people of Sinaloa are the focus of award-winning Mexican photographer Fernando Brito, who decided to tell the story of these displaced people through images of forgotten decrepit buildings and the stony looks left on fleeing faces.
Liebmann took advantage of the decrepit area by buying buildings and renovating them into live-and-work spaces for artists, cafes, and restaurants, drawing an influx of young people to the area, hoping to make inner-city Joburg their new home.
This fall's Big Idea award may go to Peter Yi, the city's first tree-to-table maker of hard cider, who will operate a restaurant, bar, tasting room and cidery in a formerly decrepit 15,000-square-foot warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Mr. Cuomo announced the emergency plan after months of constant disruptions and coverage by The New York Times about the decrepit state of the subway, including its fragile signal system and increasingly malfunctioning trains, and the escalating financial cost to riders.
To whet Mr. Kim's appetite for a deal, Mr. Moon on Friday handed Mr. Kim a computer thumb drive that contained detailed plans to rebuild the North's decrepit economy if Mr. Kim denuclearizes his country, aides to Mr. Moon said.
Earlier this year, as the agency struggled to do its job with a decimated staff, a shrinking budget and decrepit computers, its commissioner pleaded with Congress to at least give it time to prepare for the big tax overhaul Republicans wanted.
Should a deal emerge from the Trump-Kim meeting on June 12 in Singapore, China is ready to extend its dominance over the North's small and decrepit economy, where signs of an emerging market economy are also strengthening China's hand.
That restoration followed decades of neglect and partial damage at the hands of French revolutionaries, and was prompted in part by Victor Hugo's publication of his 1831 novel "Notre-Dame of Paris," which shone a light on the building's decrepit state.
But under the A.N.C., the education system has been in shambles, so gutted by corruption that even party officials are dismayed at how little students are learning, in schools so decrepit that children have plunged to their deaths in pit toilets.
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean train on Friday crossed into North Korea for the first time in a decade, as the two countries began a joint study on renovating the North's decrepit rail system and linking it to the South's.
In the bowels of a decrepit theater, Antonio Marras threw a Weimar-like cabaret for the end of the world, complete with a woman soaring overhead on a swing, and piles of distressed velvets, beading, fringe, florals and regimental stripes.
Navigating shortages — Cuba imports 20.9 to 22016 percent of its food, according to the World Food Program — frequent electricity and internet outages, and a decrepit water and sewage system are just some of the headaches for hotels trying to maintain standards.
As Mr. Trump discussed his plan, hundreds of thousands of commuters endured a third day of upheaval prompted by a minor derailment at Pennsylvania Station, another reminder of the decrepit, tenuous state of much of the region's infrastructure and transit systems.
Henrik Stenson won this year's British Open three months after his 40th birthday, and Jim Furyk, 46, carded a 58 in August, so Woods is by no means too old or decrepit to add to his 79 PGA Tour victories.
Congress could have — and should have — used those near-zero rates to borrow money to rebuild the country's decrepit infrastructure, which would have sped up the recovery by creating jobs and set the stage for growth long into the future.
President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday repeated the government's aim of achieving 8 percent growth this year, not an unreasonable goal given the influx of frozen assets and the enormous investment needed for Iran to modernize facilities grown decrepit after years of sanctions.
So when I heard that Wegmans would be planting its latest megastore about 15 minutes from my home, in Brooklyn's formerly decrepit but now gentrifying Navy Yard, I knew it was time, at last, for a real face-to-sprawling-produce-section.
In terms of actual stations, RPA officials point to the Second Avenue Subway platforms—which are notably wide, and well-lit—as the modus operandi going forward, as opposed to the cramped, decrepit platforms that the system is largely composed of now.
From Nigeria to Djibouti, decrepit and inefficient container ports are being expanded with money from the World Bank, governments (particularly those of China and Japan) and logistics firms such as Bolloré (a big French company which operates 14 port concessions across the continent).
It was one of hundreds of old, decrepit buildings in the city under an archaic rent control law that has kept rents low, but led to buildings becoming dilapidated that tenants are reluctant to leave because of a lack of affordable options.
The two sent invitations to a constellation of notable people — Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Max Jacob, Marie Laurencin, Gertrude and Leo Stein, Alice B. Toklas — summoning them to Picasso's studio apartment in the Bateau Lavoir, a decrepit green building that housed artists.
Carvel plays him like a spiteful elf, an angry, deviously witty Aussie interloper who arrives with a bag of tricks and another one of cash, buying the decrepit tabloid and hiring a frustrated journalist, Larry Lamb (Jonny Lee Miller), to edit it.
As the coronavirus has spread from its beachhead in Wuhan, China, old anti-Asian prejudices have spread with it, from the "Yellow Peril" canard that led to the lynching of Chinese in the 1870s to stereotypes of Chinese as dirty and decrepit.
But analysts say creating such a rail link would be an enormous task, requiring extensive confidence-building talks between the North and South and billions of dollars to renovate the North's decrepit rail system, not to mention the lifting of international sanctions.
But it has been trying to increase imports from Russia as an alternative source of energy for its military, as well as for its decrepit industries, amid signs that Beijing is growing impatient with the North's nuclear adventurism, South Korean analysts said.
The trucks and cars have become, in a sense, shipping containers — a practice that some criticize for having filled the struggling island nation with decrepit vehicles and junk, while others describe as a vital link — particularly since the devastating earthquake of 2010.
Cercas, in other words, is no longer prepared to lie anecdotally in order to tell an essential truth; instead, he will dig through archives, trudge around historic battlefields, and interview the few remaining people (largely decrepit and unforthcoming) who knew his great-uncle.
A panel of United Nations human rights advisers urged the global organization more than a year ago to publicly apologize and compensate hundreds of ethnic Roma who were poisoned by lead waste in decrepit camps run by its peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
The problem is that decrepit roads and boardwalks, overgrown trails, and deteriorating education centers are impairing the ability of American families to enjoy our spectacular parks, cultural treasures and wildlife heritage — leading them to spend less time and less money supporting local businesses.
Letter To the Editor: Re "New Trump Hotel in Washington Does Not Violate Lease, U.S. Agency Says" (news article, March 24): The Old Post Office building was not "decrepit before the deal" to lease it to the Trump Organization for a hotel.
Andrew Cuomo is right: A traffic congestion pricing plan — in which drivers have to pay to get into the busiest parts of Manhattan — is the best way to pay for the bulk of urgently needed fixes for New York City's decrepit subway system.
They dot the stretch of wasteland in various states of disassembly, all gutted for parts and scrap, but some retain a semblance of their original shape with a few original fixtures still remaining, including flight controls, dangling oxygen masks, and decrepit lifejackets.
"The condition of the schools is so decrepit in Detroit that you can hardly teach in them and kids can hardly learn in them," says Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, a national teachers union that helped Detroit teachers bring the lawsuit.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin's seizure of Crimea four years ago first exposed the decrepit condition of Ukraine's armed forces, right-wing militias such as Azov and Right Sector stepped into the breach, fending off the Russian-backed separatists while Ukraine's regular military regrouped.
Hambousssi's own images of the decrepit resorts of Nuweiba in the Sinai desert, a once thriving tourism attraction, continue that narrative: a lonesome unemployed camel under a palm tree in a barren yard; an empty, rusted pool at the Safari Hotel Resort (both from 2016).
Public school teachers in these states say they buy routine items — like copy paper and toilet paper — out of their own pockets, and that years of funding cuts to maintenance budgets have led to rats, termites, ants, mold, and decrepit conditions that endanger students.
Whether they're transforming a decrepit shipping container, a rundown airstream, or a garage in disrepair, JoJo and Jordan are up for the task of creating one-of-a-kind vacation hot-spots that will provide a life-changing financial boost for their homeowner partners.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will pump $2000 billion into its decrepit, loss-making railway network in the coming fiscal year, up a fifth from this year, but the government shied away from the politically unpopular move of raising fares ahead of crucial state polls.
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Not the decrepit cabin where Dana and Sen once lived together, this cabin was located further south, beside the Pennsylvania border, where, at least in this version of the game, it was predicted the Anthropocene would end, heralding an epoch of restoration and rewilding.
A Chair in a Room (Android) Supernatural mystery story Chair in a Room is a better-than-usual version of the classic "VR jump scare" experience, putting you in a decrepit old house with limited battery life and some malevolent things in the shadows.
The plan was to erect a Resurrection City on the National Mall and call on Congress to address unemployment, decrepit housing and other pressing problems of the urban and rural poor of every race, ethnic group, gender, sect and tribe from across the country.
Amobi's latest album, "Paradiso," released by NON and UNO NYC in May, conjures a decrepit metropolis that runs on chaos—shattered glass, gridlocked traffic, scorched beaches—along with the parallel histories of the NON founders' native cities and the populations that have travelled through them.
On Tuesday, Councilman Benjamin J. Kallos, a Manhattan Democrat, introduced legislation to the City Council's Consumer Affairs Committee that would force screening companies to provide more complete descriptions of housing court cases, including records that show when tenants won, or when an apartment was decrepit.
That rationale also applies to the other disgusting images of mid-Victorian ­medical procedures at St. Saviour's Infirmary in London, a decrepit pile built on the foundations of a medieval monastery but soon to be torn down to make way for a railway bridge.
Ms. Mirren and Mr. Sutherland play Ella and John Spencer, a long-married couple who defy their adult children by absconding in August 2016, during the early days of the presidential campaign, for one last journey in their decrepit R.V. Destination: Key West, Fla.
The governor also asserted the state's legal right to develop a chunk of Midtown Manhattan surrounding Penn Station, depicting it as dangerous and vulnerable to terrorist attack, and he openly mocked the mayor's decade-long timetable for shutting down Rikers Island, the city's decrepit jail.
Opened six years ago, it took the peeling bones of a hostel once used by performers at a Cantonese opera and updated the interiors with glass and steel; the effect is remarkable, modern and yet artfully dilapidated, a sensitive reimagining of a storied, decrepit space.
After photographing despairing street scenes in East Harlem and on the Bowery, Mr. Ballot, echoing "Freedom's Fearful Foe," focused on a Puerto Rican family: Felix and Esther Gonzalez and their six children, who lived in a small apartment in a decrepit Lower East Side tenement.
He has also moved into a decrepit housing complex, staged a 10-day fast and slept in a tent near a popular spot for drug dealers, a tactic of physical advocacy that emphasizes showing up and being present for the issues he's fighting for.
In Mountain View, where the two had lived after leaving behind a decrepit, if well located, apartment in San Francisco, they had had a new mother-in-law apartment of about 1,000 square feet, with polished concrete floors and high ceilings, for $2,503 a month.
He cited as a precedent the area around King's Cross, once notorious for drugs and prostitution, metamorphosed after the renovation of the decrepit King's Cross station and its neighbor St. Pancras, now serving the Eurostar express train to Paris and other cities in Europe.
In Foster Wallace's slightly altered view of Ohio in 1990, we follow our heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a telephone operator and secretary who juggles a job with barely any purpose, a relationship with her much-older boss, and the task of finding her decrepit grandmother.
In fact, he's currently so compelling — his prayer mat a tiny island of order and purity in a filthy, decrepit, dog-eat-dog landscape — that I wonder if he isn't destined to win our trust, raise our hopes, then turn out to be evil.
Michigan's decrepit water and sewer systems contributed to some of the state's most notorious infrastructure failures, like the poisoning of thousands of people in Flint, and the opening of an enormous sinkhole last month that forced the evacuation of several homes north of Detroit.
There was no mention Saturday night of the difficulties he has had taming homelessness, repairing the city's decrepit public housing or the fallout of the recent decision by Amazon to pull out of a plan to build a campus in Long Island City, Queens.
Maine received a wake-up call about the decrepit state of its bridges in April when a woman driving an SUV lost control of her vehicle and crashed through a guardrail on the Bath Viaduct in Portland, even though she was going just 35 miles an hour.
There may be no better example of this than the current edition of the Chicago Cubs, who ran out three straight seasons of decrepit squads while stockpiling young prospects from 2012-14, and just won their first championship in 953 years once their promising litter matured.
She's the "cool girl" who left town to live in the big city (yep, New York), and she reluctantly returns home to her parents' to figure out her life, where she reunites with an old friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis), who owns the town's decrepit local watering hole.
"Thirty years ago, General Motors made every car in America, today they're all made in Mexico," said David Duffy, an unemployed stone mason in the decrepit town of Leavittsburg, with its peeling clapboard houses and broken roads, to explain why he had just voted for Mr Sanders.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's first new train passenger cars in more than four decades set off on their maiden journey across the island on Saturday in what the government hopes will prove a total revamp of its decrepit railway system with help from allies Russia and China.
This was just weeks after Bisping struggled through a defence of his crown against the decrepit Dan Henderson in Manchester, at 4am so that the American market could watch it at their normal time, and is still estimated to have sold less than 300,000 pay-per-views.
We're not really watching to see whether Mr. Knoxville's character, D.C., will take his daughter (Eleanor Worthington-Cox) to a Clash concert, or whether a corporate weasel (Dan Bakkedahl) will acquire the decrepit amusement park that D.C. owns and elects to make more dangerous to raise cash.
New Mexico is one of more than a dozen states where investment firms have bought decrepit homes in the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis and resold them to low-income families through either long-term installment deals called contracts for deed, or rent-to-own transactions.
The City of Austin has annexed all of the property on which the bar stands—a four-plus acre compound including a pristine outdoor stage, an assortment of decrepit vehicles ranging from cars to school buses, and several houses, some of them home to Grossman family members.
The giant ring has appeared in dozens of LA rap videos, explains my friend Jeff Weiss, an expert on the local rap scene and a friend of many of its top performers, including Drakeo, who is currently being held in the city's notoriously decrepit and brutal Men's Central Jail.
The son of a New York City imam -- who was allegedly training school shooters at a decrepit New Mexico compound -- once tested positive for an explosive residue before a flight to Saudi Arabia three years after 9/11, but he was never detained, according to a retired police officer.
And without fail, every contestant questioned about their maturity or readiness to enter a television-based engagement at age 230 assures the audience, the producers, and the Bachelor himself they are just being discriminated against by decrepit 32-year-old hags for being creaseless and further from death's grip.
Kicking the can that far down the road was a community effort: 20 cities and towns in Jefferson County, large and small, had shoved responsibility for their decrepit sewer systems onto the county, avoiding having to take heat from their residents for raising rates to pay for maintenance.
That is apparently because the default mindset of the corporate class, when it looks across the decrepit media landscape, is that this is an industry that has no rosy long-term outlook—that it is worth nothing but what you can get out of it in the short term.
Investment in Vaca Muerta, which got its name from the formation's shape resembling that of a side of beef hanging in a butcher shop, has been hobbled by decrepit infrastructure in its home province of Neuquen, rigid labor contracts, and the threat of steep provincial tax and royalty increases.
Not only the oldest living president but also the one who has lived longest since leaving office, as well one half of the longest marriage between first spouses, with former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, he has remained remarkably physically active even at what he described as a "decrepit" age.
But we still need prudent public policies that ensure coal companies pay their cleanup costs, that prevent utilities from rejiggering their rate structures to keep decrepit coal-fired plants alive at ratepayer expense, and that encourage new forms of investment in communities left high and dry by coal's demise.
But having declared that their nuclear and ballistic missile program is now complete, the argument is that Kim is prepared to put it on the table to gain economic and security benefits to modernize the decrepit North Korean economy and bring promised prosperity to his long-suffering people.
KANDALAKSHA, Russia — So many decrepit Soviet-era cars carried migrants into Europe from this frozen Russian town in recent months that border officials in Finland, who confiscate the rust-bucket vehicles as soon as they cross the frontier, watched in dismay as their parking lot turned into a scrapyard.
And, in its final book, it gives us a vision of what a man might look like after his life's adventures are over: the hero's elderly father, the last person with whom Odysseus is reunited, now a decrepit recluse who has withdrawn to his orchard, tired of life.
Once the danger has passed, the best way to get things moving again would be for Mr. Trump to follow through on his longstanding promise to deliver a significant increase in federal spending on the nation's decrepit infrastructure: lead water pipes, an overwhelmed electric grid, unreliable public transportation systems.
Mr. Cuomo has also overseen the construction of a bridge to replace the decrepit Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River, pushed to transform Midtown's James A. Farley Post Office into a grand new train station and led a long-overdue overhaul of La Guardia and Kennedy airports.
It was a behemoth with 1.1 million students, 84 percent of them from minority groups; 78,20143 teachers whose contracts were expiring and whose ranks faced heavy retirement losses; an aging infrastructure of 1,145 schools, most of them overcrowded and decrepit, and a $13 billion budget that experts called inadequate.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has failed to restore power fully to the U.S. commonwealth's 3.4 million residents since Hurricane Maria in late September knocked out power to the entire island, caused a complete collapse of the utility's already decrepit electric infrastructure and killed dozens of people.
So nearly four decades later, Ms. Gold said she was angered to learn that an edifice owned by the same institution has a facade so decrepit that city inspectors have issued several violations for the risk it posed to the public — including one from nearly a year ago.
It touches on several trends that didn't last: eight Times photographers' brief stints shooting for the parks department; the bell-bottoms and tube socks of parkgoers; the decrepit state of city parks in the late 1970s; and the once burgeoning popularity of the tabloid format in the city's newspapers.
The budget also calls for a limit to federal funding for New Starts, a federal infrastructure grant program that is anticipated as a major source of funding for the proposed Gateway tunnel that would relieve the aging and decrepit 100-year old Hudson River rail tunnels in New York.
Galvanized steel is a common roofing material in Trinidad, and the show's name suggested a duality about growing up in the West Indies: Oliver claimed that the education he received at the school was exceptional—"college-level English in fourth grade," he said—but the building was decrepit.
If the house in a home invasion story is a metaphor for America, then Don't Breathe's house is a decrepit, ugly shell of material greed — one that seems held together by sheer willpower on the part of the terrifying (but admittedly badass), gun-wielding white veteran at its center.
For one, it didn't feature video of the encounter, leaving the jury to make do with the optics of the situation: an officer nervously firing off his gun in a dark, decrepit staircase of a housing project and fatally hitting Gurley, who was coming downstairs with his girlfriend.
Another, closer space— a decrepit, echoey, and strangely carpeted indoor basketball court belonging to an affiliated church — was also an option, but they still needed approval from the fire marshal to start making renovations to section it off, soundproof it, and make it fit for dozens of people to sleep in.
I wanted to get lost in mazes of neon alleyways; study each holographic giant hulking between buildings; smoke a cigarette in the Yakuza-owned nightclub where each character had some uniquely gruesome cybernetic enhancement; and climb the stairs of the massive, decrepit housing complexes that are frightening in their uniformity.
If the Kyoto target survived, it was only because of other forces: First, the collapse of the Soviet bloc wiped out a lot of European carbon emissions along with the decrepit Eastern European industrial base; then the global downturn that started in 21 reduced carbon emissions along with economic growth.
Inheriting a windfall $21975 billion capital program wangled from the State Legislature by his predecessor at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Richard Ravitch, Mr. Kiley presided over the replacement of hundreds of decrepit subway cars and buses, modernized stations, and improved on-time performance in a system that had been woefully neglected.
Jackson's 20th-century horror classic is a case study in mind games; as represented in the 1963 Robert Wise film adaptation The Haunting, it's more a tale of psychological terror than the supernatural — if indeed there's anything ghostly at all lurking within the dark, decrepit mansion known as Hill House.
As the city's subway system has descended into a crisis of delays, aging fleets and decrepit infrastructure, the mayor has been noticeably absent from its trains, opting instead for a caravan of black sport utility vehicles to ferry him from Gracie Mansion to his preferred Y.M.C.A. gym in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
And the election will be a test of how Detroiters perceive their remade city, a place where a hollowed downtown has been transformed into a tourist draw, complete with a manufactured beach and new streetcars, but where thousands of vacant, decrepit houses still fill neighborhoods across its 139 square miles.
In April, 1951, four years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, a sixteen-year-old girl named Barbara Johns, who attended the segregated, all-black Robert R. Moton School in Farmville, Prince Edward County's seat, organized a walkout to protest decrepit conditions.
Related: Millions of Taps Run Dry as Mexico City Fixes Some Decrepit Water Pipes Acuña, the sociologist, says that all this should not be laid at the door of the relatively wealthy, and the aspirational, who insist on facing the bottlenecks in the relative luxury, and comforting isolation, of their cars.
The grim contention comprised the meat of the defense on day two of the Akai Gurley trial, in which Officer Peter Liang is being tried for the accidental—but fatal—shooting of Gurley, a 28-year-old unarmed black man, in the decrepit stairwell of a project in East New York, Brooklyn.
But in her dogged attempts to pass the days profitably — brushing her teeth, taking her medicine, filing her nails, attempting to jostle into life her companion, the barely seen and virtually immobile Willie (a convincingly decrepit Jarlath Conroy) — she represents a mordant image of the existential struggle that can haunt us all.
Similarly, in the first couple of episodes of Stargate Universe, a group of Stargate personnel flee to a decrepit starship, find that air and water are in low supply, and have to take drastic measures to survive, including potentially sacrificing people to give the larger group enough time to fix the ship.
One of the highlights of the show is Dada à Berlin (220), a 58-minute documentary film by Philippe Collin that, through startling interviews with an elderly Hausmann and Hulsenbeck and other decrepit Dadaists, sketches out how Hausmann et al were the most outrageous and original artists/non-artists of their day.
Boeing has canceled a $20 billion deal struck after the 2015 nuclear agreement to deliver aircraft to Iran's decrepit fleet; the French oil giant Total S.A. has said it will not go through with a lucrative contract to develop oil fields; and Maersk, the shipping giant, is stopping its movement of Iranian goods.
"Mono-no-aware" is a term that means something like "the beauty of things passing"; it can be found in thousand-year-old texts like Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji," in which characters take particular pleasure in everything that is transient: blooming flowers, decrepit wooden mansions, fire embers on a cold night.
Visitors can pose for a picture where it looks like they're being sliced up by a maniacal butcher, pose for a picture in a decrepit laundromat, pose for a picture in "hell" (a red ball pit), and yes, pose for a picture next to a terrifyingly realistic mound of thousands of plastic cockroaches.
Martin is a paranoid environmentalist with an apocalyptic streak, raising Turtle in a decrepit and rotting mansion in the middle of the Northern California backcountry so that she'll learn how to live off the land, because none of the skills she could pick up in town will be worthwhile once the world ends.
De Blasio appeared with Sanders at a campaign event for his re-election bid last fall, where Sanders praised the populist policies de Blasio implemented in New York City and endorsed the mayor's proposed "millionaire's tax" to fix the city's subways — a flashpoint for New Yorkers frustrated with the unpredictability of the decrepit subway system.
During his three summit meetings this year with the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has offered to help renovate North Korea's decrepit railway system and link it with the South's, dangling the project as one of the biggest economic benefits the North could expect should it denuclearize.
And as commuters around the region endure the disruptions caused by the decrepit rail conditions at Penn Station and watch as the Trump administration and Congress play political football with funding for the Hudson tunnel, the two tubes under Hudson Yards are viewed as another argument for the need to move forward with the project.
Nor has Oslo fared much better on the Palestinian side, where the corrupt authoritarianism of the Palestinian Authority's institutions, combined with a failure to deliver on Oslo's promise of ending the occupation, has left the national political institutions identified with the agreement — namely, the PLO and Fatah, and the Palestinian Authority itself —palpably decrepit.
"In my state, the Republican-led legislature and governor have destroyed urban public schools, poisoned the water in one of our major cities, failed to find a reasonable solution to our decrepit roads, and cut environmental funding so deeply that the proper state agencies cannot contain, much less repair, contaminated sites," Steve wrote from Grand Rapids, Mich.
They had to take over existing schools and admit all students within their zones; they had to pay to renovate buildings — they were given the most decrepit buildings in the most dangerous neighborhoods, while district schools kept the newest buildings — and they had contracts with the local school board in addition to a charter from the state.
In the past, the word "nuclear" has touched off many reactions from Mr. Trump, from descriptions of the decrepit state of some of the United States' nuclear forces, to denunciations of the Iranian nuclear deal, to descriptions of a long-dead uncle who taught at M.I.T. and warned Mr. Trump decades ago about the power of nuclear weapons.
But, as his liberal critics frequently note, he is often quiet on the small-d democratic reforms (he is not enthusiastic about eliminating the filibuster, for example) that will be necessary for his left-populism to have any chance at success within our decrepit constitutional system, and he's less inclined than Warren to personalize his villains.
MATÍAS ROMERO, Mexico — The caravan of Central American migrants that President Trump has portrayed as an emblem of flawed immigration policy in the United States began to splinter on Thursday, as hundreds of people departed this rural town aboard buses and on foot, abandoning the decrepit municipal sports complex where their journey had stalled for five nights.
The Asbury Ocean Club development is rising over the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park, N.J.CreditCredit ASBURY PARK, N.J. — For nearly 270 years a plot of land one block from the ocean sat rotting and abandoned, a decrepit visual counterpoint to the mounting evidence that Asbury Park, the famed Jersey Shore town, had finally achieved a comeback.
For half a decade now, the league's smart set — those cost-benefit, God-I-love-a-good-spreadsheet analytics guys who proliferate in N.B.A. front offices — have embraced a new creed: The best way to build a champion is to tear a decrepit team to the ground and reseed it with young and cheap talent from the draft.
I wandered the set, stepping into familiar high school hallways — all moody blues and faded golds — and teen-dream bedrooms and then into some new locations, a speakeasy-style hangout and a decrepit bunker where the parents, now played by back-in-the-day heartthrobs like Mädchen Amick, Luke Perry and Molly Ringwald, used to hang out.
Senator Stephen A. Douglas (the "Little Giant," best known for his debates with Abraham Lincoln) strongly defended the State Constitution's ban by arguing in 21800 that without it, Illinois would be filled with "old and decrepit and broken-down negroes" — a version of the "dumping ground" theme that's been used by white politicians for so long.
In a post one month before the 2016 election, Murray shared a video of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE and called her a "corrupt, decrepit old candidate" in his caption.
They say that such a move could provide the state hundreds of millions of dollars each year in new revenue and create thousands of new jobs, an argument that has been given extra heft by the collapse of the Amazon deal in Queens, and the ongoing effort to find a financial cure for the city's decrepit subways.
Even though the narrative surrounding Howard's decline—further accelerated by the decrepit trade package Charlotte used to acquire him—has somewhat less to do with his production and more to do with the friction he's stumbled upon with teammates and coaches in recent years, that wide frame, and all the good it can still do on a basketball court, isn't going anywhere.
Hipster dance-punk icons LCD Soundsystem are reuniting for their first shows in five years on Friday, April 15th and 22nd; decrepit rock legends Guns N' Roses are coming back with both Axl Rose and Slash on the 16th and 23rd; superproducer (and potential enemy of The Verge) Calvin Harris is closing out each weekend with sets on the 17th and 24th.
The couple decided they wanted to own a weekend place in the Catskills (where they are also now part-owners of the Graham & Co. hotel), and while browsing the site, Bupp happened upon a foreclosure in Phoenicia, N.Y. The place was completely decrepit, "an old hunting cabin," she says, that someone had attempted to update at some point but then gave up on.
He called the system a disgrace; blamed decrepit conditions for fostering criminal behaviors; called out the mold, the roaches, the failing boilers and resulting heating problems; and blaming the mayor, essentially, for failing to adequately tend to things even though Mr. de Blasio has spent hundreds of millions of dollars repairing cracked roofs and working to reduce crime in the most violent complexes.
The ease of catching a commercial flight at the deluxe new private terminal at Los Angeles International Airport — the first of its kind in the country, with a $4,500 annual membership plus a $3,000 fee per trip — makes it that much easier for those who can afford it to forget about the decrepit main terminal, with its claustrophobic hallways and overcrowded waiting areas.
Although it is hard to tell now, Prenzlauer Berg was a working-class district home to communists even before World War II. In the 19833s and '21983s, as the often war-damaged housing stock became increasingly decrepit and people moved away, the neighborhood became virtually the only place in East Germany where bohemian, gay and party scenes could take hold.
Now, I sometimes feel sadness for people who didn't engage online in the same way back then, because as superfluous as some of those conversations might have seemed at the time, the friendships I formed brought me: friends in real life; people to talk me through bad times; matching tattoos; and even my first apartment, as decrepit as it was.
Here, Taylor sticks to vocals, and is joined by guitarists Karl Sveinsson and Giovanni Infantino, drummer Callum Cox, and Oliver Edward Turner on bass Together, their take on the genre is more orthodox than one might expect, offering predominantly straightforward though heavily atmospheric (think plague miasma rather than gossamer Cascadiana) black metal, with a heavy, stinking tinge of decrepit death metal.
A family moving in (Samira Wiley of "Orange Is the New Black" and Michael Potts, both fine, play the spouses) struggles with mice, decrepit walls and rearing their son; a superintendent (Adrian Martinez) fights off vandals; a boy (Evan Fine) witnesses his parents' crumbling marriage; a girl (the promising Sophia Lillis) living with her grandparents believes Kitty might be the mother who abandoned her long ago.
Illustration: Jim Cooke, Photo: Stephan Guarch, ShutterstockIn 2006, then-New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg issued an executive order establishing the Office of Special Enforcement, a citywide agency responsible for enforcing "quality of life" regulations—a nebulous, ideologically charged concept that refers to anything from music venues with too many noise complaints to nightclubs that facilitate prostitution to decrepit structures that pose a fire hazard.
They are quick to mention that the awfulness of these years was not necessarily Webber's fault, that there were others like him in the line of decrepit or defective or otherwise insufficient complementary stars brought in to be Iverson's second during the years when that was Philadelphia's team-building philosophy in its entirety, and then to execute the middling systems of coaches like Eddie Jordan and Doug Collins once Iverson left.
You can't visit one of these huge U.S. bases built since 9/11, see the dedication of the young men and women, and the sophistication of the systems they have built, and not wonder: What if all of this talent and energy and idealism and pluralism were applied not to propping up a decrepit Arab state system against Iran, but instead fixing the worst neighborhoods of Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit?
Size: 2659,25 square feet Price per square foot: $2063 Indoors: The current owners bought this house in 2206 and updated all the mechanical systems, banished the shag carpeting, stripped and stained or painted the extensive oak and poplar woodwork, refitted the windows and doors, replaced the decrepit light fixtures with custom designs and did many other things to create a unified, period-appropriate Arts and Crafts-style environment.
But he has at least assembled quite the clowder of actors: Judi Dench as Old Deuteronomy, leader of the Jellicle cats; Idris Elba as the villainous Macavity; Ian McKellan as the ancient Gus the Theatre Cat; Jason Derulo as the (can we call a cat sexy?) rebel Rum Tum Tugger; Taylor Swift as the flirtatious Bombalurina; and Jennifer Hudson as the decrepit former glamour-puss Grizabella, who sings "Memory" at the end.
In their April 28503 article, in The Hill, Sarah Ferris and Peter Sullivan correctly point out that the problems afflicting Flint's decrepit underground water infrastructure threaten cities throughout the U.S.      To keep a tragedy like the one in Flint from happening elsewhere, it is important to understand what really happened there, and to appreciate what cash-strapped municipalities can do on their own to keep their constituents from suffering a similar fate.
I could name 10 that have done exactly that, from the decrepit glamour of the Columns Hotel in New Orleans, where the bed was so high it required steps to get into, to the hipster KEX Hostel in Reykjavik, where the rooms were bare, the bathrooms shared, the environs a screeching construction zone and the lobby the coolest bar in town, serving its own beers and filling with free jazz and happy dancers every night.

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