erection
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Dr. Sarah Furness, the Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, commissioned the statue's erection after the queen's death.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
The erection of several wind turbines is viewed by the Golan villagers as an encroachment.
From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2023
He has also commissioned the erection of stainless steel monument weighing 800lb of the hand symbol in his adopted hometown of Beverly Hills, California.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2022
He pointed to piracy and terrorism, the erection of trade barriers by some countries, and challenges from climate change and natural disasters.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
The erection of Sing Sing offered a spectacle of total control.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
A few decades earlier, Chicago homebuilders began using a technique called “balloon-frame construction,” replacing cumbersome erections of beams and joists with rapidly built skeletons of precut lumber and nails.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2018
For instance, some men become impotent after surgery for prostate or rectal cancer because the nerves that regulate erections, which run through the rectum and prostate into the centre of the penis, can get damaged.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2014
That is convincing evidence that the birds' erections are controlled by the lymph system, the researchers say.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2011
In the men who were potent before treatment, 52 percent reported problems with erections two years after treatment.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2011
Some new erections placed between the columns in the interior of the structure were taken away, and the floor was covered with the richest carpets.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.
