Sentences with phrase «city in a state of disarray»
When Barnabas and Saul arrived in Jerusalem with the collection the church in Antioch had raised for the mother church, they found the Christians in the Holy City in a state of disarray bordering on panic.
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Despite its well - known municipal dysfunction, political corruption and financial disarray (the state of Michigan assigned an emergency manager in July who sought bankruptcy protection after the city's debt rose to $ 18 billion), there are many encouraging signs that the city can rebuild.
The drawing of new borders left no space for the extraterritorial state within a state, and now that garden city — the nation's secret heart — finds itself in disarray.
As Hurricane Katrina made landfall the city of New Orleans in September of 2005, destroying numerous structures and buildings that populated this vibrant Southern city, many of the city's public schools already existed in a state of disarray.