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3) We have the key being thrown into the motel room at the end of the final episode, and the door opening to show the dirt floor of the dilapidated motel room; but the final scene is of the door opening to show the key where Joe threw it.
Connie buys a dilapidated house in the country and convinces Bill to move in and fix it up.
I love the dark, disturbing settings of the dilapidated Victorian house (long since demolished).
Two teens spend the night in a spooky, dilapidated mansion.
Shortly after the war they rendezvous at the dilapidated remains of the concentration camp they met.
The premise is simple: A group of young film makers (think hot, scantilly clad babes) break into a dilapidated movie studio hours from the wrecking ball (the studio was closed years before after the tragic accidental death of a teen idol)to make the last movie ever there.
When I reached the dilapidated school building, students were trickling in for the day in their tattered uniforms.
Russia, knowing that it would have an endless war on its hands, has not given any indication that it intends to annex the region’s dilapidated pro-Russian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Expensive quick fixes to increase energy security are crowding out other important priorities in Central and Eastern Europe, such as long-term investment in tertiary education and research, and much-needed improvements in dilapidated health-care systems.
In order to appeal to the leaders of East Asia’s fast-growing economies – which Putin has called the most important factor for Russia’s long-term success – the government spent billions of dollars this year to modernize the dilapidated port of Vladivostok.
Some are, no doubt, dilapidated and in need of replacement.
Activists from Raqqa have long referred to our dilapidated city as an “internal colony,” owing to its long history of economic, political, and social marginalization at the hands of Syrian governments.
A deformed box of concrete packed with dilapidated classrooms, the school is pockmarked with age and neglect.
The lessons were being conducted in a run-down, dilapidated school with a leaking, corrugated iron roof.
But while such a program could employ millions of workers to deliver basic public services and rebuild and modernize the country’s dilapidated infrastructure, it is no more feasible than a UBI, given current federal budget constraints.
Checks and Balances Before Roads and BridgesWASHINGTON, DC – In the 2016 American presidential election, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agreed that the US economy is suffering from dilapidated infrastructure, and both called for greater investment in renovating and upgrading the country’s public capital stock.
But Russia is currently in a precarious financial situation, owing to declining commodity prices and falling output – partly due to its dilapidated energy infrastructure.
Even without the embargo, Cuba would still be held back by its dilapidated infrastructure; strict labor laws; restrictions on foreign-investment; an educated but unskilled workforce, unaccustomed to Western workplace practices; and a lack of contracts and legal instruments to enforce those practices.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, a war hero and president who built the interstate highway system that Trump tells us is dangerously dilapidated?
For decades, French governments have tried to paint over the problem by pouring billions of euros into so-called “urban-policy” programs to fix up dilapidated housing projects.
Add to that the boats’ dilapidated condition and lack of equipment, and the conclusion that they were North Korean seems fairly certain.
Besides rallying traditional US allies, therefore, Biden will focus on strengthening America at home by addressing its dilapidated infrastructure, inadequate base of human capital, and underfunded research and development.
In countries occupied by the Soviet Red Army after World War II, Jewish communities had a corner or a room in their underfinanced and dilapidated synagogues dedicated to documenting the Holocaust.
The house on her own estate was quite dilapidated, so Levin and his wife persuaded her to spend the summer with them.
Her garden was just next to that of the Pierrons, and in the dilapidated trellis-work which separated them there was a hole through which they fraternized.
Then, opening on the yard, where the stable was, came a large dilapidated room with a stove, now used as a wood-house, cellar, and pantry, full of old rubbish, of empty casks, agricultural implements past service, and a mass of dusty things whose use it was impossible to guess.
A pair of post-horses arrived in the courtyard drawing a dilapidated chaise, hired at the nearest post.
There were three men in sight, one of whom was a policeman; a market-cart full of cabbages, and a dilapidated looking cab.
A cluster of some half dozen small and dilapidated buildings formed what, from the circumstance of two roads intersecting each other at right angles, was called the village of the Four Corners.
Hillocks, woods, rocks, fences, and houses flew by him with the rapidity of lightning, and the black had just begun to think whither and on what business he was riding in this headlong manner, when he reached the place where the roads met, and the "Hotel Flanagan" stood before him in its dilapidated simplicity.
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