Sentences with phrase «little city on»

The capital of Saskatchewan (yep, it's a real place) is a little city on the Prairies, packed with history and hardy Canadians.

Not exact matches

Government attempts to ease prices — including a 20 percent provincial tax on foreign buyers, a city tax on empty homes, as well as stricter federal mortgage rules — have made little difference: prices are up 16 percent in the past year.

On the other hand, critics have blamed the Aussie rules for contributing to a boom in unsightly condo towers aimed at foreign investors while doing little to bring sky - high house prices in cities like Sydney and Melbourne back down to Earth.

The corporation is in the midst of implementing a $ 2 - billion program to streamline sorting and delivery, which is why you've begun to see all those cute little letter - carrier vans on the streets in some cities instead of the clunky old delivery trucks.

And little to no word on what happened to the dog that was sent to Kansas City by accident.

Emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who took Detroit into bankruptcy, says the city will be on a «little bit of a diet for a while.»

It compelled me to justify myself, to explain to my interrogators how I planned to live in New York City on so little — less than minimum wage after accounting for the cost of my uniform and unpaid training time.

Across Ecuador, you'll find expats living comfortably on as little as $ 1,000 a month if they own their own home, and rentals also remain affordable — count on paying around $ 500 for a three - bedroom apartment in a city, with small - town rentals costing even less.

It's like a city, but a little off,» a visiting entrepreneur told me one night at the weekly community pizza party, held in the garage of a co-working space on a typically sweltering summer night.

In fact, every June countless cities celebrate the moment when an unassuming little bar on the wrong side of town became a rallying cry for the marginalized.

The City is already working in cooperation with the School Boards to set up first - time home buyers housing on surplus school sites around Edmonton, but with little surplus school land in the core, they need to look at other options.

«Exposure like this opportunity to present in New Orleans, in many ways, puts Little Rock — and Central Arkansas — on the map as a city and a community working toward creating a more inclusive, diverse and equitable startup environment.

Vacancy rates in both cities have declined a little recently, but remain at high levels and could move higher as a large number of new apartments comes on stream.

Little did we know it then, but in just a few months» time Merryn and I would be setting off on an adventure we'd never forget — walking the streets of Rome, climbing the Alps of Switzerland, and settling into our new city of Oxford, United Kingdom, where Merryn would get a dream job at the University and I would write a book helping others recover from their broken dreams.

Weʼre four deep in my little two - door Saturn, on our way back from a show in the city.

Our cities, our nation and our world bear little resemblance to Winthrop's «city on a hill.»

Reconstructionists leave little doubt that they are consciously imitating the Puritans of the early 17th century in establishing «a city on a hill» and calling on the New Testament (e.g., Matt.

By filing a lawsuit to set aside the Mexico City policy on the basis of «international law» created outside the American political system, the CRLP has demonstrated that it firmly believes that «international law» (which has little if anything to do with the will of the American people or the representatives they elect to govern them) is nevertheless enforceable against the American people and, ultimately, the people of the world.

Jesus, well aware of the danger, was now taking care not to be found in the city after nightfall; he either stayed with friends at Bethany or bivouacked on the Mount of Olives, where the little company would easily escape notice among the numerous groups which camped out there for the festival.

Tucked away on page 177 of The Secular City comes a little - noticed paragraph that perhaps I should have used as an epigraph for this essay, or maybe it should be put in italics.

One can almost see the stately procession of those oriental women, dignified as queens, in the peace of the oriental evening coming down the slope from the little city, each with her graceful water - jar on her shoulder, while around the tree - sheltered well lie the ten great hulking beasts still saddled with their baggage and gaudy with the beads and trinkets that camel - drivers have always loved.

What if they were a little smaller and didn't start on time and only had three people in the band, but on nights, weekends and weekdays the congregants scoured the streets of their cities and served people who haven't seen kindness or felt grace in their entire lives?

But this is little more than a scratch on the surface of the great evil to which people are capable, and I believe that it is these sorts of public tragedies that keep our eyes averted from the truly horrific crimes that are being committed every day in the basements and back alleys of our own cities.

By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives — to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plunder their possessions, on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

Quran (25:52)-- «Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness...» Quran (33:60 - 62)-- «If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while.

Soon after its founding, the company opened a storefront scoop shop in the city's Little Italy neighborhood, where it sold gelato and sorbet to walk - in customers on the main floor while also hand - packing pints in the basement that it sold to bodegas and other neighborhood stores.

Joe is game — he thinks it's the right thing to do — if a little skeptical, as it's not «his» city in the way that it is ours; my sister and I were weaned on The Big Easy.

I've been trying to take more time on the weekend for exploring little cities around Morocco - too many beautiful places to see and never enough time.

Cycling Everyone, and I mean everyone, cycles in Copenhagen which might seem a little overwhelming at first but you can't go wrong on a bike in this city.

However, many Australians living in major cities have little direct knowledge of what happens on farms.

Acorn: Denver, CO Alden & Harlow: Cambridge, MA Birch: Providence, RI Blackbrick Chinese: Miami, FL CBD Provisions: Dallas, TX Central Provisions: Portland, ME Coltivare: Houston, TX Cured: San Antonio, TX Davenport: Portland, OR Eat the Rich, Mockingbird Hill, Southern Efficiency: Washington, DC Edmund's Oast: Charleston, SC El Camino: Louisville, KY Estela: New York, NY Expatriate: Portland, OR Grand Central Market: Los Angeles, CA Gunshow: Atlanta, GA High Street on Market: Philadelphia, PA Hot Joy: San Antonio, TX Kin Khao: San Francisco, CA London Plane: Seattle, WA Luksus: Brooklyn, NY Lusca: Atlanta, GA Måurice: Portland, OR MoPho: New Orleans, LA Mott Street: Chicago, IL Nico Osteria: Chicago, IL Night Market Song: Los Angeles, CA Novel: Kansas City, MO Odd Duck: Austin, TX Orsa & Winston: Los Angeles, CA Palace Diner: Biddeford, ME The Pig and the Lady: Honolulu, HI Q: Los Angeles, CA Qui: Austin, TX Rhubarb: Asheville, NC Ribelle: Brookline, MA Row 34: Boston, MA Rose's Luxury: Washington, DC Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop: Durham, NC Sarma: Somerville, MA Serpico: Philadelphia, PA Sir and Star: Olema, CA Sobban: Decatur, GA Sushi Nakazawa: New York, NY Thai - Kun: Austin, TX Tosca: San Francisco, CA Travail and the Rookery: Robbinsdale, MN Trois Mec: Los Angeles, CA Uncle Boon's: New York, NY Westward and Little Gull: Seattle, WA

Residents of Siberian cities get their food from three main sources: grocery stores (still not as modern as those in the West); city markets, farmers» markets, and street vendors; and their own dacha gardens where they grow fruits and vegetables on little plots of land surrounding the cities.

Under its French name, and in the French quarter of the city, there is little difficulty in obtaining Chili Colorado, for it glows in ruddy beauty, from its shining receptacles, on the shelves of every well - appointed grocery; but above Canal street, it is not so commonly demanded, and is known as Chili pepper.

Yesterday evening, my husband and I had quite a scare as out littlest one tumbled down our steep flight of city steps (hard hard wood that's not the most gentle on teeny tiny noggins), thankfully only leaving a few loose teeth, a bunch of bruises and a little blood, but it left every single person in our house shaken up.

After likely partying hard until the early hours of the morning, Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy was spotted leaving his house looking a little rough on Tuesday morning.

The centre - back is a little on the old side in reality, but he has been improving year - on - year for Swansea City, and I believe he could play on for another four years easily.

After Arsenal seemingly agreed to sell another contract rebel, Oxlade - Chamberlain to one of our biggest Premier League rivals, it would now not surprise Arsenal fans if they also decided to cash in on the sale of Sanchez to Man City as their next deal, which will leave very little time for Wenger to bring in replacements...

The majority owner of Randall Park near that city and a trotting emporium at Painesville, Ohio, Silberman also is a horseplayer, which is to say he'd walk from Cleveland to Miami on his hands and knees to get a little action.

Chelsea only slowed spending in recent years because they went totally ham in the years prior, they are stacked full of good youth (they sold a lot of quality young players too) and Roman seems to have little appetite for overspending now but they still have bigger resources than us and better facilities just like City a fact people gloss over and the result of the overspending on youth sees them recoup money that they then use to spend whilst it looks like they are not spending (also got lucky with the price inflation directly after they went crazy on youth and the regularity of their China deals is sketchy at best.)

Land is tight and the city already reports it has too little parkland given population growth so there is huge push back on turning anything over to private developers.

City's # 32.5 m signing from Real Madrid was substituted a little over an hour into the goalless draw at the Estadio Maracana after he was on the receiving end of a strong challenge.

For several years, Mitchell had been an ardent media supporter of the players, coaches and parents of Jackie Robinson West, well before the Little League on the city's predominantly black South Side burst into the national zeitgeist.

The young Arsenal striker Yaya Sanogo may not have scored against Hull City in the famous FA cup final triumph at Wembley back in May, but there is little doubt that he did have a big effect for the Gunners after coming on with around half an hour of normal time left to play.

We are on 55 pts currently, so we should end on 75 pts, a little short of Leicester City.

With both teams losing their respective games at the weekend, there was always going to be a little extra pressure on Arsenal and Leicester City as they prepare for the Premier League clash at the Emirates stadium tomorrow evening.

There is little surprise that Hull City are keen on him returning to the KC Stadium next season, and now it is being reported that our fellow Londoners Queens Park Rangers want him for their attempt on promotion next season too.

Shame that we cant win it even when Leicester is on top, Chelsea is in bottom, manutd don't know what they are doing with only city showing that little bit of challenge that too because they bought bruyne otamendi and sterling in summer.

The Premier League schedule is a little out of whack now since games had to be postponed for FA Cup and League Cup, so Man City and Stoke City already played their Week 28 matchup on Wednesday (ended in draw at +605 odds).

Funny enough though Arsenal vs Man U is the only game all Chelsea, Lpool, Man City, hell even Spurs fans unite and have our backs, and what did my team do, crumble as always under very LITTLE pressure from a weak united side on the night.

We wind through scraggy little hamlets on outskirts of the city, past low - slung stucco houses surrounded by crumbling concrete walls.