Far from a panacea, the court is better seen as an essential building-block in the slowly growing edifice of international law.
They argue that to extend full-blown marriage to gay people is to play sorcerer's apprentice with the most important building-block of society.
Famous for its size -- the warehouse-like building stretches for an entire city block -- this location is just one of five Powell's stores in the city.
Basic creature cards like this ghoul show how simple building block no-frills attached cards look.
The address Allied listed as its headquarters appeared abandoned, the long, gray cinder-block building bare inside.
They arrived at the Department of Health and Human Services, a giant cinder-block building that stands close to the United States Capitol, and found the mood on the sixth floor rather festive.
Likewise, who would dominate the region's steel mills, especially in Luxembourg, which could provide a basic building block for mid-20th century military power?
In 2012, Markuss Persson, also known as Notch, who created Minecraft, was honoured with a special award in recognition of the success of the block-building game.
Another important building block of e-commerce infrastructure involves activities described by Web Services Description Language, or WSDL. Oriental Motor, a Japanese distributor of industrial motors, relies on one of these programs to update the inventories and prices of the many parts it offers online.
It would be as if an algorithm could generate blueprints for a building that ideally should be informed in part by the preferences of those who commissioned it, as well as the topography of the space and the surroundings, but instead of a rich variety of products it becomes routine to get a Frank Gehry-inspired building on every block.
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Yodobashi plans to build a 40-storey office block and a nine-storey commercial building on the plot.
The four-story building is located on a prime block in downtown Saratoga.
Kendall took a cab (paying with untraceable cash) and had the driver let him out a block from the all-cash building.
If such a government decides to expand the building of West Bank settlements and procrastinate -- if not block completely -- any progress on the peace process, it will potentially lead to the isolation of Israel in the international community and to growing tensions with Israel's main ally, the United States.
An EU-U.S. deal is just one building block of a more dynamic world economy.
It wants to demolish the building instead and replace it with an eight-storey modern apartment block with a total of 24 one and two-bed apartments for rent.
Then the designers carefully add the smallest details, using street-level videotape and photographs of every city block, building and storefront.
The launcher shoots the bottles at a velocity of 984 feet per second, fast enough to smash a double-layer breeze-block wall and allow assault troops to enter a building, according to the manufacturer, BCB International.
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Many of the building block technologies for Super Cruise are already available on the all-new 2013 Cadillac XTS and ATS luxury sedans, as part of the available Driver Assist Package.
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The real agenda is different, and worse, however: It is about getting buy-in from legislators for the President's policy of global denuclearization - for which New START is said to be an important building block.
But she said they had been told the block was a listed building, one of the earliest council houses in south-east London, and could not be knocked down.
The new 60-room High Line Hotel, in the west Manhattan neighbourhood of Chelsea, is part of a mixed-use block that is part hotel, part Episcopal seminary and part residential building.
Nakheel, a state-backed developer, said it would build another tower block that would be the tallest building in the world, even higher than today's tallest, the Burj Dubai.
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