Sentences with phrase «as city spent»

Adebayor moved to Manchester from north London for # 25 million as City spent money to lure other EPL stars like Arsenal defender Kolo Toure and Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez.

2 we agreed the 92m fee as long as city spent more on Alexis which they did nt so we pulled the plug - ormenstine

About as much as city spent on sterling....

The conservative cost estimate comes as city spending on homelessness has soared under de Blasio.

Chalkbeat reported in May that the city's Renewal schools serve 6,300 fewer students since the program started, «a sign that many families are still shunning the schools even as the city spends hundreds of millions to revamp them.»

Not exact matches

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

In just the past few months, the company has set out on an ambitious spending spree, purchasing networking site Meetup.com for $ 200 million, a mobile communications app, a coding camp in New York City, as well as sleek new headquarters in downtown New York.

But Comcast spent just $ 1.7 billion and only won rights within its cable territory, leaving out other major cities such as Los Angeles and Dallas.

Mark Bello (above) opened Pizza a Casa on New York City's Lower East Side, he says, after spending nearly five years as a «nomadic pizza - teacher - for - hire,» sharing his pizza skills at various locations around the Big Apple.

Steve Ward, who spent seven years as an officer with the Seattle Police Department and six with the city's SWAT team, says he founded Seattle - based VieVu in 2007 to protect officers against unfounded civilian complaints.

In 2004, Pashak, who had spent a couple years as a DJ and a drummer in an indie band, opened up a now - renowned music club called Broken City.

Chappelle returned to a relatively steady stand - up comedy schedule a couple of years ago, and he spent the weekend performing six shows (two a night) as part of Austin City Limits Live.

I was staying in a pricey city and wanted to keep costs low for as many expenses as possible so I could spend more money on attractions.

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

Either way, the controversy reflects the bitter feelings emerging as cash - strapped cities, states and countries cut spending.

Page Six later identified the woman seen with Thompson as 28 - year - old model Lani Blair and reported that the two spent four hours together at the Cleveland Cavaliers» hotel (who were in the city to play the New York Knicks).

Infrastructure spending could come, just as it did by the efforts of Van Rysselberge in Oklahoma City, from passing local sales taxes to fund those programs.

New York City fashion designer Betsey Johnson founded her own clothing label in 1978, with the aim of distilling into her own distinct brand her years spent outfitting counterculture icons such as the Velvet Underground.

The former mayor, who spent $ 261 million on his campaigns for New York City office, says he'd spend as much as $ 1 billion of his own money on a presidential run.

Local governments, especially those outside mega cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, spent at least 8.6 billion yuan ($ 1.3 billion) subsidizing airlines in 2016, mostly for them to start direct services to far - flung places such as New York and Paris, according to data compiled by Civil Aviation Data Analysis.

In addition, we will also spend significantly on branding and to add channel partners to reach out to more small cities in India as almost 70 % of our users come from outside the top 10 cities,» Raveendran told Techcircle.

It spends most of that money on, as far as I can tell, lobbying to be able to operate in different cities.

Dr. Tournay Flatto spent a decade as President of the Emerald Foundation, an independently funded medical research foundation based in New York City and was the Director of External Affairs at the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

He spent several months staying with friends in this island city as...

In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.

Exports play their role in lifting Mexico's economy, but infrastructure spending serves as another key driver in the wake of last year's devastating earthquakes, which rattled Mexico City.

But as Las Vegas knows all too well, a city based solely on shopping and eating and drinking can struggle when people aren't spending money anymore.

There, Alex spent time as an Analyst in both the firm's Technology, Media & Telecom Investment Banking team in San Francisco and its Financial Institutions Investment Banking team in New York City.

Prior to joining the Sherpa family, Liz spent several years in New York City as Senior Director of Communications + Special Projects at Conde Nast where she managed public relations, executive positioning and global programming across the company's media properties.

«If you live in a big city and need to spend more on housing due to work and the current rental market, it's OK to do so as long as you adjust some of your other discretionary spending,» says Ash Exantus, director of financial education at BankMobile, a digital banking platform.

The proposed $ 100.8 million budget will spend millions on police and fire pensions as well as a 3 percent pay raise for city workers.

The surge of immigrants boosts housing demand and consumer spending in major cities such as Auckland, which attracted the majority of immigrants, followed by Canterbury, Otago and Wellington.2

All the ghost cities, spectacular - but - mostly - vacant shopping malls, barely - used airports and bridges to nowhere have boosted the Keynesian measures of growth — such as GDP — that don't distinguish between productive and unproductive spending.

The level of spending by some candidates in the last municipal election was described as «insane» by Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, after some Calgary city council candidates raised more than $ 270,000 largely through corporate donations.

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

And as far as spending by big cities growing too fast, their operating spending has increased at a slower pace than overall municipal government spending while their responsibilities have arguably grown at a faster pace.

But as cities, counties and states compete for economic development, spending on such programs nationwide has climbed into the billions of dollars, even in an era of fiscal austerity.

As a wealthy investor he now spends most of his time running his equity portfolio from an office in the heart of rural Leicestershire, far from the noise of the City of London.

In the last two months the overwhelming weight of the evidence supports this view, as the following indicators have either come in below expectations or suffered an actual downturn: core durable goods orders, the Chicago Fed National Activities Index, new home sales, existing home sales, payroll employment, the NFIB Small Business Index, construction spending, the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index, the Kansas City Fed Index, the Philadelphia Fed Survey, industrial production, the Empire State Manufacturing Index, the NAHB Housing Index, the ADP payrolls, auto sales, real disposable income and the GDP.

I came home and reflected a lot on what a number of the churches and Christian business men in our city have spent the last 5 years trying to maintain as a «witness to our city».

The tone of the article was one of whimsical despair at the unalterable depravity of «Mr. Bones» who has willfully spent some 18 of the past 20 years as a guest of the city.

Of course, this whole week has served as a profound reminder of the truth of James» instructions to the early church: «Now listen, you who say, «Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.»

And in this wealthy, sophisticated nation, hundreds of older men and women now spend their nights in Tokyo's railroad stations or street corridors, curled up in cardboard boxes — just as they do in New York or cities in other nations.

To his delight the Town Council had issued a revolutionary Ordinance of the City of Wittenberg (24 January 1522), ordering the surrender of various Church revenues and some plate, including the funds of as many as twenty - one sodalities, much of it spent on social evenings and the like.

These apple cider caramels are my love letter autumn in my city, my attempt, as I wrote in the book, to «pack everything I love about New York City in October — the carpet of fiery leaves on the ground from the trees I didn't even know we had; the sky, impossibly blue; the air, drinkably crisp; the temperature finally delicious enough that it implores you to spend hours wandering around, sipping warm spiced apple cider from the Greenmarkets — into one tiny square.&racity, my attempt, as I wrote in the book, to «pack everything I love about New York City in October — the carpet of fiery leaves on the ground from the trees I didn't even know we had; the sky, impossibly blue; the air, drinkably crisp; the temperature finally delicious enough that it implores you to spend hours wandering around, sipping warm spiced apple cider from the Greenmarkets — into one tiny square.&raCity in October — the carpet of fiery leaves on the ground from the trees I didn't even know we had; the sky, impossibly blue; the air, drinkably crisp; the temperature finally delicious enough that it implores you to spend hours wandering around, sipping warm spiced apple cider from the Greenmarkets — into one tiny square.»

I spent a couple of vacations in this beautiful city as a teenager and I can clearly remember the freshness of the dish.

Due to a weekend trip spent literally eating everything I possibly could in Mexico City this past weekend, I didn't quite finish all the data images I had planned, but will update the post as I have them.

From 5:00 pm — 11:00 pm weekly, guests will enjoy authentic reggae music as they take in the sunshine on Hotel Chantelle's popular rooftop, transporting patrons from the streets of NYC to a tropical oasis: The perfect way to spend a Spring / Summer evening in the city!

Now that Arsenal has finished paying the stadium debt it has some money to spend albeit not at the same level as Chelsea and Man city which are owned by billionaire godfathers.