Sentences with phrase «the national mall»

The National Mall's plan was influenced by European urban design, but was also adjusted for American sensibilities.

During a press conference later that evening, press secretary Sean Spicer delivered a statement criticizing the media for allegedly underestimating the size of the crowds for President Trump's inaugural ceremony — saying that «photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular tweet, to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall.»

The National Mall in Washington, D.C., plays host to a satiric standoff between The Daily Show and Colbert Report.

Demonstrators protest on the National Mall in Washington, DC, for the Women's march on January 21, 2017.

It includes plans to construct an exhibition space celebrating entrepreneurship and innovation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that is expected to open in 2024.

Nancy Gibbs, the first woman to serve as editor of TIME, interviewed Earle, Kathryn Smith (the first female coach in the NFL), Maya Lin (the first woman to design a memorial on the National Mall) and Carla Hayden (the first woman and first African American to be Librarian of Congress) about their journeys at Tuesday's event.

Or on the National Mall in Washington DC in the 1980s.

Roughly 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall, in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

She's raising about $ 10 million to $ 13 million to build a stable for the horses and U.S. Park Police who work on the National Mall, and she's seeded the effort with $ 1 million of her own money.

«I'm glad to see so many people showed up to your inauguration,» Putin said, addressing Trump and showing a picture of a packed National Mall in Washington D.C. «Oh wait, that's the Women's March.»

That aggressiveness helped Simon land a succession of deals in the late 1990s that transformed Simon into the first truly national mall developer, in what had been a localized, fragmented market.

Some will teach lessons on the National Mall; others, in the spirit of the day, will simply show up, proudly bear their corporate logo, and shuffle along in support of the March for Science.

The Circulator bus, for example, costs just $ 1 and its routes reach popular spots including Georgetown, Union Station and the National Mall.

«Something beyond imagination is happening,» he told the large crowds gathered at the National Mall in Washington.

Silverman initially told CNN that the rally would draw anywhere between 10,000 and 20,000 people to the National Mall, and the National Park Service has planned for 30,000 people.

There, just off the National Mall in Washington, the victims of Nazism will be on view for the American public, stripped, herded into ditches, shot, buried, and then the tape will repeat and they will be herded into the ditches again, shot again, buried again.

Will these counterproposals be enough to stop what some have called the «Eisen Curtain» from descending on the National Mall?

An alien showing up preaching something that looked like Earth religion would make me sit and notice... or maybe a 900 foot apparition of Jesus over the National Mall.

Thousands gathered Saturday on the National Mall to hear the Tibetan spiritual leader talk about world peace.

This reflective black granite memorial cut into the Earth on the National Mall in Washington is not a text in any conventional sense, so I blanched when a friend suggested that I include it in «The American Bible.»

The Reason Rally, sponsored by American Atheists and other secular organizations, draws a crowd to the National Mall in March 2012.

In that respect since I already live in DC, just blocks away from the National Mall I plan on going down and protesting everything that J.W has said,

If only CNN would cover events at the National Mall, like the March for Life and the March for Marriage in such detail.

One of Stiefel's major concerted contributions in the last three years was the Reason Rally, an event held on the National Mall in Washington, which was billed as a watershed moment in the atheism movement.

She, along with many other national leaders and social activists of different stripes, began fasting on November 12th while staked out in a tent on the National Mall in Washington D.C..

Those on the National Mall declared Dec.1 - 3 a national fast and asked Christians and others all over the nation to join them.

How about a bunch of altars on the National Mall in DC with each sect praying to God to light theirs to show how they are the only «correct» ones?

On Saturday, Silverman hopes that from 10,000 to 20,000 atheists, agnostics, doubters and secularists of all stripes to converge on the National Mall in Washington for what his group calls the Reason Rally.

The entire National Mall was packed shoulder to shoulder with people bearing signs with slogans that supported life.

Following his remarks, the first - ever offered by video from a sitting president, House Speaker Paul Ryan shouted to a cheering crowd at the National Mall.

Despite snow, ice, and below - freezing temperatures, thousands of people are still protesting abortions during today's 41st March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., from the National Mall to the Supreme Court.

In the first year of the new century, we have been rudely reminded of the fragility of freedom — of the hard fact, chiseled in stone on the Korean War Memorial on the National Mall, that «freedom is never free.»

As I approached from the National Mall, «Hallelujah» and «Gloria a Dios» were about the only things I could understand as the crowd was warmed up with energetic Spanish worship music.

You mentioned the day on the National Mall, well I remember the service that was held at the National Cathedral and I remember all the different Faiths standing together.

I had some time between the shoots to be a tourist in D.C. and made sure to walk the National Mall, checking out all the famous monuments and taking some pics along the way (naturally).

About L'Enfant Plaza Hotel Nestled just steps from the Metro, Capitol Hill, National Mall, Smithsonian...

Nestled in Chinatown — one of Washington, DC's most vibrant neighborhoods — the Fairfield Inn and Suites is also conveniently close to museums, national landmarks and attractions such as: The White House, Smithsonian Institution, the National Mall, Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and Lincoln Memorial.

The hotel is conveniently located near many of Washington, D.C.'s most popular destinations including The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a mere one mile walk to The White House and National Mall, and in the near vicinity to Georgetown shopping, George Washington University, Embassy Row and the picturesque Dupont Circle.

We watched as hundreds of thousands gathered on the National Mall in the dark, waiting for the day to begin.

Organizers for the «Camino Americano: March for Immigration Reform» were spotted Monday setting up a stage and equipment on the National Mall for the rally which will take place on Tuesday.

«Park Service did not want to barricade these, but unfortunately we have been directed, because of the lack of appropriations, to close all facilities and grounds,» said National Mall and Memorial parks spokeswoman Carol Johnson.

A planned immigration reform rally will take place on the National Mall on Tuesday even though the site is closed due to the government shutdown.

At 11 a.m., Rep. Carolyn Maloney and the Girls Scouts of Greater NY announce efforts to establish a Smithsonian Museum dedicated to American Women's history on DC's National Mall, Fearless Girl Statue, Wall Street, Manhattan.

DCMJ, an advocacy organization that helped legalize marijuana in Washington, D.C. in 2014, is hosting the inaugural #Trump420 on January 20 where people will gather on the west side of Dupont Circle at 8 a.m. for coffee and tea and hand out 4,200 joints of legally grown cannabis as they parade down to the National Mall at 10 a.m..

«We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people,» Trump told a crowd of hundreds of thousands in his sixteen minutes, twelve seconds» speech at National Mall.

The line «immigrant or native born» drew a few boos from the Trump supporters scattered across the National Mall.

The Silent Procession for Puerto Rico will take place at the same day as the Unity March for Puerto Rico on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

In an April 12 meeting in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's spacious office overlooking the National Mall, Bloomberg said that Schumer has been «AWOL,» that «this is a real problem for New York City» and that «our senators who are normally in the middle of it aren't there,» according to a Republican senator briefed on the meeting.

Juggalos Descend on D.C. to Fight FBI Gang Distinction Followers of the hip - hop group Insane Clown Posse — known as Juggalos — held a march Saturday on the National Mall, alleging discrimination after the FBI labeled the group a gang in a 2011 report.

The three - fifths - size replica of the Vietnam War Memorial situated on the National Mall in Washington DC has toured towns and cities throughout the country.