Sentences with phrase «abandon the city in»

The action picks up immediately, as the dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch) roars into Laketown causing further desolation before being stopped by the heroic Bard (Luke Evans), who then leads the survivors back to their long - abandoned city in the mountains.

It's a setting that's almost synonymous with the series, so Strange Journey's decision to abandon the city in favour of Antarctica is a bold one that adds some much needed geographical freshness to the franchise.

The six large watercolors in Fernanda Chieco's recent exhibition «Gone» are figurative works on paper inspired by her visits to abandoned cities in the Colorado Desert.

Not exact matches

In our May issue, we chronicled the unlikely rise of Youngstown, Ohio, a city long - since abandoned by the steel industry now trying to reinvent itself as a hub for technology entrepreneurs with the help of the Youngstown Business Incubator.

Farmers, the original entrepreneurs, are finding a profitable niche in the vast amount of abandoned land in the Motor City.

BEIRUT, March 23 - Syrian rebels left one besieged enclave on Friday and agreed to abandon another, leaving only the city of Douma still in insurgent hands in eastern Ghouta after a month - long army assault to drive them from the stronghold near Damascus.

While business groups in Indiana, such as the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, have come out decisively against the law, Indianapolis, the center of business conference activity in the state, is now fighting to make sure that businesses don't abandon the city's vital convention industry.

In China, where overcrowding is common, whole cities have been erected within the span of months, then left abandoned because of developers» bankruptcies and high purchase prices.

In the most recent assessment, the City has stated that they have redefined project boundaries to minimize impacts on the abandoned Mill Creek channel, but they haven't addressed the more important point — what about the impact of the project on potential efforts to re-animate the channel in the futurIn the most recent assessment, the City has stated that they have redefined project boundaries to minimize impacts on the abandoned Mill Creek channel, but they haven't addressed the more important point — what about the impact of the project on potential efforts to re-animate the channel in the futurin the future?

After visiting 25 countries, Jessica abandoned ship for the good life in Panama City.

Two weeks after the Ninth Circuit's decision, what had been done with abandon in San Francisco was done more carefully» and perhaps more seductively» in New York City.

The incident should have been a warning sign that our city was in trouble, but there was little reaction, and the abandoned construction site has become an unnoticed part of the city's landscape.

«I think the reason lies in the fact that this present globalized economy leaves masses of people uprooted and abandoned on the periphery of ever growing large cities, where they are engaged in a desperate struggle for daily survival.

Mitchell, pastor and founder of Atlanta's Urban Foursquare Church, knows the day is coming soon when his congregation most likely will have to abandon its home in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Too many of the most favored and powerful have abandoned the Puritan ideal of the «city built on a hill» (language to which Ronald Reagan once appealed) and aspire to living in a mansion behind walls, where they can act out the anarchic fantasy of doing what pleases them.

We have been abandoning our strategic locations within city cores and traditional neighborhoods, and trying to create a new kind of society in the form of suburban megachurches.

As The Washington Post explains, the discovery of the new location first began 15 years ago when a team at the Tower of David Museum began an expansion project: «But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem's Old City.»

The church has been abandoning its strategic locations within city cores and traditional neighborhoods and trying to create a new kind of society in the form of suburban megachurches.

Writing in the Christian Century, Traina says, «Ruether's suggestions for advancing this larger common good are many: eat less meat; design towns and cities in which residences, jobs, and necessary goods and services are within walking distance; develop self - sufficient regional industries and agriculture; and abandon patriarchy and become committed to earth healing.»

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

There are those killed in fights over turf, innocents caught in cross fire, citizens terrified of city streets, escalating robberies, children fed free crack to get them addicted and then enlisted as runners and dealers, mothers so crazed for a fix that they abandon their babies, prostitute themselves and their daughters, and addict their unborn.

So if you don't hear back, you can either assume all is well, or I've abandoned ship and decided to cast - away life in the big city of Paris for the laid - back vibe of the Côte d'Azur.

Image via Ffffound I offer this belly - rubbing recipe in lieu of the promised post about eating vegan in provincial New Zealand, which was abandoned when I realised that eating vegan well in the provinces involves exactly the same thing as eating vegan well in any NZ city: prepare to do it yourself and...

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Some have been found abandoned in outlying areas of the city and in the boondocks, and the hope is that most will be recovered before snow buries them.

A Ladbrokes spokesman said: «The odds suggest there's more chance of snow falling during Sunday's game than Arsenal beating City in 90 minutes, and at 25/1, we're not completely ruling out the chances of the game being abandoned.»

The high spirits of the typical English fan are epitomized in Liverpool, that historic port where the people drink life to the lees, export insects and carouse and joke with an abandon that flies in the face of the grim chimney - pot realities of the smoky city.

Former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini is lining up an audacious raid on his former club to seek the signing of world class box - to - box midfielder Yaya Toure, report the Mirror, with Inter Milan believing that the Ivory Coast international is willing to accept a 50 % wage cut to abandon the Etihad Stadium in favour of a surprise move to the San Siro.

That's not to say that there isn't a troubling pattern of failure in the latter stages of the Champions League, but what was astonishing on Wednesday was that he took a system that had worked so well to the point that City has lost only two meaningful games all season and stands 16 points clear atop the Premier League table, and he abandoned it for something else.

It seemed every window in the city was decorated with Roma flags; the team were allocated a rutted, untended pitch for training that was so dangerous they abandoned practice.

In some ways, Sanchez's deal will cause the whole wage bill to rise — one of the reasons City cited for abandoning their pursuit — and you hope United are prepared for it.

Angry supporters, at the end of their tether, invaded the pitch in what was believed to be the final game at the ground, against York City, causing it to be abandoned.

In 2011 my partner and I fed 7 or so families a week from an overgrown abandoned lot in the citIn 2011 my partner and I fed 7 or so families a week from an overgrown abandoned lot in the citin the city.

Fed up with the city «s broken promise to remove abandoned cars from a lakefront parking lot, the president of the Chicago Park District board wants to withdraw an offer to the city to use the lot for holding cars towed under winter parking restrictions now in effect.

Madigan, who had kept the bitter and racially charged Chicago City Council fight out of the capital until last week, suffered a jolt when 14 black Democrats threatened to abandon the party in the November election if the park district bill passed the legislature.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently enlisted ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders in Sen. David Carlucci's district in the effort to get the Hudson Valley lawmaker to abandon the IDC and re-join the regular Democratic conference, a source familiar with the mayor's actions confirmed.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, the 28 - year - old son of an addict who abandoned his family, wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police.

At about the 2:49 - minute mark in the second half of last night's «Wise Guys» segment on «Inside City Hall,» former NYC Mayor Ed Koch explained he abandoned his fellow Democrat largely because he felt there should be balance in Albany, adding:

* He might have succeeded in merging the City of Buffalo with Erie County had not former Mayor Anthony M. Masiello abandoned a top - level commission studying the proposal.

Massock was driven outside of the city of Douala and abandoned; he sought refuge in the personal residence of an Archbishop and was later charged with public incitement and fined 50,000 CFA.

Albany County Land Bank Executive director Adam Zaranko: «In the City of Albany, currently we have over 60 vacant and abandoned buildings of sale and about another 70 that we recently acquired from the county through the tax foreclosure process that we're evaluating and will likely go to sale.

He also touched on streetism where he said, some of the children he spoke to revealed that they have been forced to come to the city to seek greener pastures because their parents have abandoned them to also do same in other countries.

The year began without Governor Cuomo, who abandoned the tradition of a State of the State speech on the first day of the session, in favor of a presentation on airport renovations in front of a group of business leaders in New York City.

Public schools in the city of Yonkers will get an additional $ 25 million dollars in aid, but Cuomo had to abandon a last minute proposal to give an additional $ 75 million dollars to struggling upstate schools.

In doing so, staff members discovered numerous properties that appeared abandoned, however weren't identified as zombie houses through the Department of Financial Services (DFS) registry or bank - owned through the Office of the Assessor for the City of Mount Vernon.

«According to a report compiled by Senator Klein and I, the City of Mount Vernon has suffered significant depreciation in property value, as well as a loss of much needed tax revenue due to the prevalence of zombie, foreclosed or abandoned properties in the cCity of Mount Vernon has suffered significant depreciation in property value, as well as a loss of much needed tax revenue due to the prevalence of zombie, foreclosed or abandoned properties in the citycity.

The abandoning of farms, the creation of reservoirs, and the preservation of the remaining open land resulted in scenic lands that drew large amounts of tourism from New York City.

As Councilman Ellis pushed plans and initiatives to deal with abandoned buildings, address lack of diversity in the fire department, and create public access TV, and introduced a measure requiring city department heads to live in the city.

In December of that year, Mr. Smith — envisioning a run for mayor of New York City on the Republican ticket — abandoned the delegation he had once led and joined Mr. Klein's bipartisan coalition.

Given this lack of interest, and assuming elected officials reflect their constituents, is it any wonder that their predecessors in the late 1960s and early 1970s were able to abandon the old city hall for more than 25 years with virtual impunity?