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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

Testing healthy men for prostate cancer does save lives, but also leads to treatment that can leave men unable to control their bladder or have an erection.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

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 the Charlevoix church had been an event of great excitement.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

They are worse than the Vandals, for the Vandals, although they destroyed the buildings of antiquity, did not replace them with hideous and disgusting erections and atrocious bridges like the Pont d'Alexandre.

From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France