Sentences with phrase «abandoned city of»

Chernobyl VR Project is a first - person virtual tour of the abandoned city of Pripyat and the neighboring Chernobyl Power Plant, a place known for a massive nuclear disaster a few decades ago.

Players will take on the role of Cole «Sandman» Anderson, a veteran sniper in the ranks of Task 121 (a.k.a. the baddest badasses who will beat the asses of any WMD - wielding ass who messes with them), as he explores the abandoned city of Birsovik.

After lunch in the afternoon, disembark for a visit to the abandoned city of the Mughals.

The ancient Royal tombs carved into the mountain side at Naghsh - e Rostam are not as well known as the abandoned city of Persepolis,...

MAY 25 CHERNOBYL DIARIES Starring: Jesse McCarthy and Olivia Dudley Directed by: Bradley Parker On an «extreme tour» of the abandoned city of Pripyat, where the former workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor lived, six tourists discover they are not alone.

The colony ships looming above the rusted cars and wrecked cosmodrome of Old Russia; the craggy mountains of the moon, seemingly piercing the starry infinity above them; the abandoned cities of Venus, lost amid weird alien flora.

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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.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

With an estimated 20 square miles of vacant land, Detroit's abandoned lots are roughly the size of Manhattan according to the Detroit Future City Report.

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.

The Radcliffe Foundation partnered with the Greek ministry of migration to renovate an abandoned clothing factory north of the port city of Thessaloniki to house refugees.

The city is home to a stunning 139 square miles of blighted or abandoned land.

He is working to stabilize the city and help fix the suffering public safety issues by decreasing the number of abandon buildings.

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.

Yeah, they've been resolved by stripping Baltimore City of essential tax revenues so that whole areas of the city are desolate or abandoned and we look like a third - world country, with a Gold Coast and exclusive subuCity of essential tax revenues so that whole areas of the city are desolate or abandoned and we look like a third - world country, with a Gold Coast and exclusive subucity are desolate or abandoned and we look like a third - world country, with a Gold Coast and exclusive suburbs.

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 future?

New York (CNN)- One week after New York's Department of Education drew controversy with a request to ban 50 words and references from the city's standardized tests — including «dinosaur,» «birthday» and «religion» — the department announced Tuesday that it is abandoning the plan.

They looked for sweaty feet to wash and when terrible plagues hit and huge swathes of the population fled the cities, abandoning the sick, the Christians stayed behind, nursing the ill back to life, with some of the carers dying as a result.

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.

The initiative is simple but aggressive - battle the recent violence by tearing down the abandoned homes that have become havens for criminal activity, then hope to stem the tide of residents fleeing the city.

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.

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...

You mean we're in danger of losing the single city gal to a * gulp * man??? Calm down, you know I'd never abandon you, besides, we're just casually getting together and making dinner... IN THE MAGIC -LSB-...]

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.»

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We also have strong rumours that the Spain international Nolito is set to join Pep Guardiola at Man City while Chelsea have apparently beaten Crystal Palace and others to the Belgium international Michy Batshuayi but this might not be such bad news for Arsenal after all, because according to the football media the striker that Chelsea really wanted to sign was their former youth star Romelu Lukaku and I think the reason they have abandoned the pursuit of the Everton player is because they know he is going elsewhere and that elsewhere could very well be Arsenal.

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.

The saint, being abandoned by his friends, doesn't know how he will get home since he lives outside of the city and came to the game and post-game celebrations with his friends.

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.

Cardiff City fan Gwyn Davies is disappointed at the reaction of some fans to the now - abandoned investment plan for the club.

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.

Reports are out claiming that Real Madrid president Florentino Perez refuses to abandon the prospect of prising Sergio Aguero away from Manchester City.

The city of Chicago, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago Park District and The Trust for Public Land have joined forced to convert abandoned railroad space along the once bustling Bloomingdale Line into much - needed community green space for residents and visitors.

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.

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: