Sentences with phrase «city used as»

He noted that the law did not institute the extra charge as a tax and have the city use it as a source of revenue, since that would have required state approval.

Most backpackers spend a couple nights in the city using it as a jumping off place for organized treks and homestays into the valley.

Berkeley paid Bearden about $ 16,000 in 1974 for the 10 - by -16-foot piece — a collage of Bay Area landmarks and faces, including the profiles of four men of different races — that the city uses as its logo.

Not exact matches

The operation to liberate the rest of the city is continuing slowly, as Iraqi forces have to deal with ISIS car bombs, sniper fire, and use of heavy weaponry.

Ready with cash and either Health Canada authorizations or doctors» notes saying their patients report relief when using marijuana, they walk up to a counter inside Cannabis As Living Medicine (CALM), one of the city's longest - running medical pot dispensaries.

After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

Yesterday, President Obama toured Youngstown and used the city as a backdrop for a speech on «how our economy is growing again,» thanks in part to the president's stimulus plan.

But the public good doesn't end up helping as many people is it should, since the residents who live just outside the city center — who would use the roads — aren't able to commute in.

Daniel Tang of Wipay says the service lets Chinese tourists use wallets such as Alipay in cities like Singapore.

The city - state has also been used as a neutral meeting place for other Asian summits, including the historic first meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Taiwan's president Ma Ying - jeou in 2015.

Through cells for volunteer foot patrols, the Gang Violence Task Force and the Portland Police Bureau, many citizens and city workers are using Celly as well.

Airbnb, for its part, figured out early on that «really bad» photos of its listings in New York City were keeping guests away, as co-founder Joe Gebbia recalled to Fast Company in 2012: «People were using camera phones and taking Craigslist - quality pictures.

A sprawling ancient city on the banks of the Ganges, Patna is noisy and congested city and is used as a transport hub.

The new ease of access is surely going to drive home prices higher, especially as before the rail line opened, access to the city essentially required use of the often - standstill 210 and 605 freeways.

Even if you don't use StartupStay to make an in - person connection with someone in another city, the site serves as a great way to discover others with similar interests and establish virtual connections.

Just as Torontonians were getting used to shelling out 5 cents for plastic bags, Mayor Rob Ford — possibly angered by having to carry so many nickels and unwilling to suffer the indignity of paying for a reusable shopping bag — put forth a motion to do away with the city's plastic - bag fee as of July 1.

Today the company says more than 100,000 people in 65 major U.S. cities, as well as 44 international cities, use WeWork's shared office space — ranging in price from $ 45 to $ 450 per month, depending on the amenities.

«I think of these as high - tech Beanie Babies or 21st - century tulips,» says Robert Hockett, a law professor at Cornell who gained notoriety after the financial crisis for proposing that cities use «eminent domain» to buy out underwater mortgages.

New York City - based DigitalOcean bills itself as the world's second largest hosting provider and has won plaudits for its easy - to - deploy and easy - to - use cloud resources.

«We're not seeing the kind of growth and scale - ups, and if we can solve that problem we'll also keep our most talented in Miami by using entrepreneurship as a tool for community building,» says Matt Haggman, the program director in Miami for the Knight Foundation, which committed a $ 2 million investment to help bring Endeavor to the city.

In just a few sentences, Minshew creates a bridge to the future, explaining that the new funding will be used to expand to more cities, and build out a new line of services, such as Coach Connect.

The corporate watchdog has told the public to steer clear of a potential scam website that uses the same registered business name and the same business number as the recently privatised Market City.

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore aims to enhance the use of technology and data to improve the provision of services such as health care and transportation in a city, where infrastructure has come under pressure in recent years as a rise in immigration boosts the country's population.

He used the timing of the event to launch his new venture, as some of his advisors and investors — which include Google Ventures and Comcast Ventures — were in New York City for the meeting.

During the late»90s, Silicon Valley venture capitalists and New York City investment bankers used phrases such as «monetizing eyeballs,» «stickiness,» and «B2C» to justify the ridiculous valuations of internet companies.

Consider partnering with startups that can solve these problems for you, such as Deliv, which uses a stable of couriers in handpicked cities to deliver packages, or ShopRunner, which is testing lockers in 7 - 11s for deliveries just like Amazon.

The smaller size means the retailer can use the 35,000 square foot format to get into smaller markets that wouldn't support a standard Kohl's, such as Marshfield, Wisconsin, a city of 20,000.

There is another risk here too, thanks to a proposed terrestrial use of SpaceX's BFR as a hyperfast transport between cities on Earth.

Some savvy ones are using it as a location - based marketing tool, not only to offer deals to someone when they check - in to their business, but also to add value to people when they're searching for different things in a city.

Nowhere near as sophisticated as things are today, geo - targeting allowed marketing companies to hit a general area (usually a town, county or city) and drill down to the right people in that area using data mined from cookies, so, for example, farmers within driving distance of one of the many Springfields across our great land would get ads from the local Agway there telling them when there was a sale on farmer stuff.

But, for the most part, cities have not yet fully bought in to them, largely because of the inflexibility they introduce: Cities lose their ability to repurpose community - entrusted land for other uses, such as zoning it for commercial use if necessary, because the land is often locked into long - term leases, usually spanning in the 75 - year cities have not yet fully bought in to them, largely because of the inflexibility they introduce: Cities lose their ability to repurpose community - entrusted land for other uses, such as zoning it for commercial use if necessary, because the land is often locked into long - term leases, usually spanning in the 75 - year Cities lose their ability to repurpose community - entrusted land for other uses, such as zoning it for commercial use if necessary, because the land is often locked into long - term leases, usually spanning in the 75 - year range.

The tracks are 70 feet below the surface and were used to transport post underneath the city, known as «Mail Rail.»

But that presented a marketing problem, because other, much larger practices in midtown Manhattan were making heavy use of Google AdWords, in which advertisers bid on such search terms as «New York City dentist.»

That's what the folks at FindTheBest, an online - research engine, found when they used recent census data to rank the 34 American cities with populations of 500,000 or more based on their percentages of wealthy households (defined as those with an annual income of $ 150,000 or above).

As Altamonte Springs City Manager Marts told Curbed, «Seemed to us, if you can order a pizza using your cell phone, or transfer funds with [your] cell phone, you should be able to order a transit trip.

Cities such as Surrey, Canada, are using a mobile app to answer citizens» questions about government services.

Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology (The Verge) Predictive policing technology has proven highly controversial wherever it is implemented, but in New Orleans, the program escaped public notice, partly because Palantir established it as a philanthropic relationship with the city through Mayor Mitch Landrieu's signature NOLA For Life program.

Right now, the only way to view the location information attached to a tweet is via a Google Maps overlay; but you can use Twitter's advanced search mode to search for tweets from around a certain location, such as a city.

«As a city, we should say in that letter that we are not going to allow our city to continue to utilize either the listservs or the Nextdoor if they continue to engage in this,» she said, explaining that city departments such as Oakland police, which posts on the site, would need to stop using it to make a statemenAs a city, we should say in that letter that we are not going to allow our city to continue to utilize either the listservs or the Nextdoor if they continue to engage in this,» she said, explaining that city departments such as Oakland police, which posts on the site, would need to stop using it to make a statemenas Oakland police, which posts on the site, would need to stop using it to make a statement.

(Budget 2017 uses the same cities as examples.)

Meanwhile, Google has suspended efforts to add new cities such as San Jose, Calif., and Portland, Ore., using its prior strategy of stringing up cables to each customer's home.

Uber used Greyball to avoid local authorities who were investigating the company in U.S. cities such as Las Vegas and Boston and in countries including Australia and China, according to The New York Times.

«That is my time to enjoy the city I traveled to, catch up with friends and colleagues and use the business trip as part of my life experience.»

They could reduce accidents, improve traffic, and even slow urbanization as people can use travel time and won't need to live near city centers.

Patent trolls now threaten a variety of targets: city governments, hotels, banks and many other entities that happen to use software as a routine part of their business.

Debt obligations issued by states, cities, counties, and other public entities that use the loans to fund public projects, such as the construction of schools, hospitals, highways, sewers, and universities

The city also will present additional sites that could support satellite offices — such as those maintained throughout the area by Comcast Corp. — as well as uses complementary to Amazon's regional presence, including vendor - company offices and housing for an expected influx of employees.

Uber framed the issue as unfitting for Cambridge, writing: «For a city known for its innovation and progressiveness, it is shocking that Cambridge would cling so blindly to the past and ban an innovation that thousands of its residents and small businesses value and use on a daily basis.»

Sidewalk will focus on addressing major issues in cities, such as transportation, energy use, and cost of living, through innovative products, platforms, and partnerships.

Since he didn't file Form T2091 (the form used to designate a property as your principal residence) and report the sale on his tax return, the CRA deems him to have designated the city home as his principal residence for all the years he owned it, with the result being that no tax was owed.