erection
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One key statute forbids the erection of any building or structure on federal grounds in the District of Columbia without express permission from Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Not just with the erection of the fence in Hungary but, among several examples, the deployment of riot police in Croatia, and migrants being detained in Slovenia.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
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
The erection of Sing Sing offered a spectacle of total control.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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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
Masts and funnels and deck erections, upstanding at varied rakes, emphasize the confused berthing and draw the eye to the condition of the mass of damaged shipping.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone