Sentences with phrase «abandoned lots in»

Seed bombs began as a fun and friendly tactic for greening abandoned lots in urban spaces.

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

Avella stood alongside state Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D - Forest Hills) and residents last week in front of an overgrown, abandoned lot in Flushing to announce a bill that would require DOH to capture and release non-rabid raccoons.

According to police, Police on the island were alerted by a noise coming from an abandoned lot in an area north of San Pedro Town sometime around 12:30 this morning.

Meanwhile police in Belize City conducted a search in an abandoned lot in Pitts Alley yesterday afternoon.

Not exact matches

People don't want to wait that long, so a lot of people abandon news before it has loaded or just don't even bother tapping on things in the first place, even if they wanted to read them.»

Also in L.A., a woman said her Uber ride took her to an abandoned lot instead of to her home.

There are vigilante demolition teams who tear down abandoned buildings and a group called the Lawn Mower Brigade that cuts the grass in vacant lots.

There's a joint CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission report that came out a few months after the flash crash that blames it on an effort by Waddell & Reed to sell some E-mini futures with an inept algorithm; lots of people have long had their doubts about that theory, and now the CFTC itself seems to have abandoned it in favor of the new one - guy - in - London theory.

Southern Company has been making a lot of the right moves in my opinion from abandoning the Clean Coal Project to looking to position themselves as a clean energy company.

Not all Christians will follow the lead of the new monastics to create intentional communities in abandoned places of empire, but those that do, such as the folks at Camden House in New Jersey, can teach the rest of us a lot — for example, about environmental racism.

That means abandoning one - size - fits - all attempts to address poverty and looking to the states, where a lot of the creativity in American government resides these days, for approaches that actually empower the poor, because they treat poor people as men and women with potential to be unleashed, not simply as clients to be maintained.

Just a lot of «grasshppers» at a «disco»; as we died in Vietnam; rode as Freedom Riders at the risk and sometimes cost of our lives; were killed, beaten, imprisoned, and then abandoned by Rev. Moon: as he made billions taking everything out of the sea in illegal trawling nets: while no one was watching...

I live in one of the most economically devastated neighborhoods in Philadelphia, in the post-industrial wreckage with hundreds of abandoned factories and houses, and with a lot that is broken in our lives and in our streets... and in our schools.

Point guard Mark Jackson's black Ford Expedition has sat, abandoned, in the parking lot of Denver's McNichols Sports Arena since Feb. 15.

This effected her a lot and thus resulted in my mother abandoning my siblings before I was born but she came back.

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.

With safe haven laws in effect, lots of newborn babies are now being abandoned, both «safely» and unsafely.

In the 1400 block of North Monticello Avenue, residents persuaded the Park District to lease Metra property and convert an abandoned corner lot into a pastoral refuge.

The WFP does engage in a lot of saber rattling, but there is some precedent for the party abandoning a Democratic member of Congress on the issue of health care reform just to make a point — even if that means losing a seat to the Republicans.

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

In an interview with The Independent on Sunday, the Unison general secretary suggested the Labour leader can no longer count on his union's automatic support when he said he still has «a lot to get right» and should abandon the strategy of only issuing «reasonable statements».»

Anis» case received lots of attention in the Somali media, after the UK authorities were forced to abandon a previous attempt to deport him midway through the journey to Mogadishu.

City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) laced up his working boots Tuesday morning and took to the vacant lot near the intersection of an abandoned corner property, at 24 - 19 Francis Lewis Blvd. in Whitestone, alongside property owner Robin Singh to help spread -LSB-...]

«There's a lot of abandoned mine sites in the Colorado mountains.»

But the new data showing that a large fraction of epigenetic signatures of ethnicity reflect something other than ancestry suggests that abandoning the idea of race and ethnicity altogether could sacrifice a lot of valuable information about the drivers of differences in health and disease between different communities.

A lot of lecterns are fitted with plenty of drawers and cupboards, but a quick check of the one in our main science theatre last week revealed a jumble of forgotten handouts from a conference, an expensive but chalky calculator, several well chewed pens, some overhead projection transparencies with print so minute that I took one and frightened my students with it, a pair of prescription spectacles (abandoned, perhaps, because their owner couldn't read the words on the screen?)

One day, after struggling for years with ill health, she wandered out to an abandoned parking lot and, as she wrote in her memoir Why Suffer?

Their idea is that there are all these exciting new types of reactors, [which] actually were abandoned in the 1950s for good reasons, that if we just built a lot of them would be cheap enough that they could be economical.

And believe it or not, a lot of my clients are actually right on the edge of abandoning everything in their house by the time I get to them.

Captivated by the idea of backyard self - sufficiency, Novella Carpenter transforms an abandoned lot next to her ramshackle house in inner - city Oakland into a wonderful urban farm.

It's been boots, sneaks and lots of brogues lately but now the sun is shinning more I find myself looking for all the heels I abandoned in my wardrobe for a while now.

Spent my morning in bed with a cup of tea and a book, listening to the pouring rain against the window and let's just say it took a lot of willpower to abandon my cozy pillow fortress to face the soaking wet streets.

In general, a lot of people regard threesome dating as an activities which only for bisexuals, however, as a matter of fact, abandoning traditional notions of sexuality, almost everyone wants to have a fantastic threesome dating with their partners... Read More»

Two young boys pretend to shoot each other in an abandoned lot and one falls back onto a sofa.

The «Girls With Guns» films featured strong female leads, usually supported by ineffective or soon - to - be-killed male counterparts, and blended martial arts action with heavy gunplay, usually supported by eye - piercing 80s fashion, heavy synth scores, and lots of explosions in empty warehouses and abandoned construction sites.

And Fargeat's film breaks that mold in an exciting way by abandoning a lot of the tropes that make these films such a chore to sit through.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

They live in abandoned buildings and in the mines and in a Smoke and Flame Factory, which you will recall from my Little Movie Glossary is a factory - like location of uncertain purpose which generates a lot of smoke and flames.

He uses the camera a lot more than he did in previous movies though, especially in the «abandon ship» sequence [which is in the trailer].

It's hard to separate truth from legend with all of the rumors that swirl around the game's launch, but there are stories about people being mugged for their copies (an exceptionally rare occurrence even in the busiest cities in Japan), offices that were supposed to be packed with workers appearing abandoned, and a whole lot of empty chairs in classrooms.

Richard Koszarski's thoughtful overview does a lot, in very short order, to clarify just when and why Corman abandoned direction of his own films to concentrate on shaping and distributing the films of others — although, as Paul Bartel says, Corman seems to believe in the producer - as - auteur and remains essentially in charge no matter who is directing.

He still loves his American flags (this time, it floats limply in an abandoned Libyan embassy's swimming pool), and he'll always be on shaky ground when a movie's plot basically turns on a bunch of heavily armed bros stranded in a parking lot, waiting for a rescue go - ahead that came minutes too late.

For instance, Nasch acts erratically for a doctor, telling Christine he wants to keep their work private from Ben and only meeting with her in abandoned parking lots and offices after - hours.

There's an agility and abandon to the fighting in this movie that's really beautiful to watch, and director Zack Snyder and his crew have clearly thought a lot about the physics of how people who could fly and punch super hard would actually fight.

What's worse, the movie abandons the franchise's carefully - cultivated trademarks in favor of a lot of nondescript CGI action sequences which feel interchangeable with similar flicks like Transformers and Doomsday.

While the set for the abandoned mental hospital that is the titular house is nowhere as ornate as the mansion in The Haunting, it is a lot more menacing.

Under the shadow of the West Virginia hills on the Ohio side of the river lies Steubenville, a hodge - podge of solidly built, well - maintained churches and other buildings; burnt - out brick husks with gaping holes where windows and doors once were; sagging single - family houses and tired public housing projects; warehouses; abandoned businesses; and trash - strewn empty lots — all crammed together in one compact area.

The third in the series, it's about zookeeper Iris Oakley, who gets a lot more than she bargained for when she shows up to help at a drug bust (presumably to take care of abandoned pets)...

People shot and stabbed and strangled each other in sleazy bars and hillside mansions, strip malls, abandoned houses and parking lots.