Sentences with phrase «as hundreds of people»

Today as hundreds of people sit on waitlists for affordable housing, high priced dwellings clamor for tenants.

It even became a revenue stream as hundreds of people ordered our shirts.

History is being made right now in Ottawa, Canada as hundreds of people from across North America are risking arrest on Parliament Hill during a mass civil disobedience sit - in to protest tar sands development.

Tourist destinations all over the globe are decrepitating — the Greek ruins at Acropolis are smudged with dirt from air pollution from nearby cars and are chipping away as hundreds of people traipse through every day.

I got Gilbert and George to sign a plastic turd and then travelled to Paris and placed it on a bench in the middle of their exhibition and watched as hundreds of people inspected it reverently.

But on Thursday night, a version of that same flag, created by artist Dread Scott, flew in New York's Union Square as hundreds of people protested recent police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

Pokemon GO Plus devices draw a crowd as hundreds of people stood in line outside Japanese stores to buy the Pokemon GO Peripheral.The Pokemon GO Plus device allows Pokemon GO players to perform functions in the mobile game without needing to open up their phone.

 They wished everyone a prosperous 2014 as hundreds of people gathered in the streets and prepared for the countdown.

Other breeds including Shar - Peis, beagles and golden retrievers — as well as lovable mutts — mingled with animal rescuers and dog lovers at Lake Eola Park as hundreds of people tried finding the perfect pet for their family.

A Video message from director Asghar Farhadi as hundreds of people attended the screening of «The Salesman» in Trafalgar Square, London, organised by the Mayor of London to coincide with The Oscars to celebrate the capital's success as a creative hub and a global beacon for openness and diversity.

As hundreds of people gathered for the first day of the newly - named Ronald E. Hatcher Science on Saturday lecture series on Jan. 10, many of the regular attendees remembered the PPPL engineer who was the organizer and informal host of the series for more than 20 years.

As hundreds of people stood in line for food and many went hungry during the days and weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Walmart Inc. and local supermarkets threw out tons of spoiled meat, dairy and produce.

As hundreds of people in the Midlands deal with the misery of flooding, pioneering work in the Netherlands could provide the solution.

A Manhattan lawyer who was caught on video ranting against Spanish - speaking restaurant workers is facing even more fallout Friday as hundreds of people camped outside his apartment building Friday evening for a festive Latin - themed party, complete with a mariachi band.

The council at the centre of the fire disaster says it will do its best to re-house families affected by the deadly fire in the borough but admits some could end up elsewhere in London - as hundreds of people have been left displaced.

Not exact matches

DHAMRAI, Bangladesh — A few hundred workers, activists and relatives of victims of a 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,134 people and left thousands injured held a rally Tuesday as the country marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.

It has allowed hundreds of thousands of people to publish their thoughts, including celebrities such as President Barack Obama.

There are hundreds of people who may have had a similar idea as the one you are currently thinking about, but failed to execute.

To the woman on the other end, it implies that she's doing a bad job as a parent if she's out building a company that's going to crush it and employ hundreds of people.

In Texas, emergency crews were still struggling to reach hundreds of stranded people in a massive round - the - clock rescue operation, as the National Weather Service predicted weather conditions there were to improve at last.

What he has left behind — books and recorded speeches, audio and video lecture series and hundreds of can - do maxims as well as children committed to upholding the principles by which he lived his life — all but ensures that people will be following the «Ziglar Way» for a long time to come.

As millions of people embrace the new mobile games, hundreds of new game developers have sprung up like swarming aliens in Halo.

This rising tide of connectedness in the world suddenly means that if you're an English - language publisher, there are hundreds of millions of people around the world where people speak English as a second language.

At Los Angeles International Airport, hundreds of people had gathered to protest Trump's order, as chants of «refugees are welcome here» echoed through the arrivals hall.

«Hundreds of thousands of page views are great, but knowing how many people open an email sent directly to their inbox is valuable is such a different sort of way — and one that really aligns with us as a brand.»

That bill would provide legal protections to «Dreamers,» the hundreds of thousands of undocumented people who came to the United States as children and have established roots.

«I would just add that all along I've been telling people you may see a small benefit from the tax bill initially, you may get a shiny new dime or nickel and they may say, «Look this is your benefit that you get out of this tax bill,» while the wealthiest Americans and multinational corporations are shoving hundred dollar bills in their pockets and they're laughing as they walk out the door,» Sanchez said.

Before he joined The Learning Experience executive team he spent 15 years at Starbucks working with the leadership team and its people to open hundreds of locations in major markets as the company's SVP of U.S. Business.

Even in cases with hundreds of thousands of claimants, he has been regarded as a fair, trustworthy arbiter who is adept at working with people living through their worst nightmare.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

Others resisted incorporating places like Puerto Rico simply on racial grounds, as the island was home to hundreds of thousands of people with African roots.

As you would imagine, when you are one of the fifteen hundred people on planet Earth with a net worth of a billion dollars, you get access to almost everyone!

The impact of that displacement is now being felt in Europe, Turkey, and other parts of the Middle East as hundreds of thousands of people have streamed across borders in search of another home, in 2015 alone.

According to reports from Cal Fire, there are also five other major wildfires, forcing some 200,000 people from their homes, and incinerating hundreds of buildings as far south as San Diego.

As she was led away in handcuffs, Woodley says on the video she was among hundreds of protesters but was singled out «because I'm well - known, because I have 40,000 people watching.»

She described the Delta terminal as «big chaos» with not enough customer service for the hundreds of people trying to find a flight to their next destination and a place to sleep for the night.

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.

As founder and CEO of Solamar Agency, I've received hundreds of emails from people looking for a job.

Tesla said of Peter Rive's departure at the time, «As co-founder and CTO of SolarCity, Pete has played an instrumental role in expanding access to solar to hundreds of thousands of people across the country.

As our conversation wraps up, Polman emphasizes again that his economic development goals will certainly boost Unilever's fortunes too, especially since the company depends on hundreds of millions of people having enough money to buy staple items.

There are hundreds of these Koni stores across Brazil, and they're especially popular as a late - night munchery for partying young people, much like pizza and diner food in the United States.

SEATTLE, Washington, Melb - ourne... during the past 18 months, at major meetings of groups such as the WTO, IMF and G - 8, these and many other cities have seen hundreds of thousands of people protesting against the globalised economy and the institutions t

As secretary, Price criticized the Medicaid health program for low - income people, saying it doesn't deliver results commensurate with the hundreds of billions of dollars taxpayers spend on it.

Useful features include bulk uploading, which allows a person to add hundreds of events to a calendar at a time or automatically with feeds from other calendars, such as EventBrite or Google Calendar; recurrence scheduling; automated newsletters; and automatic venue matching that figures out where an event will be held after someone types only a few letters.

When hundreds, or even thousands of people share something you've written, that response establishes you as someone who can be trusted.

Most of the deaths occurred as people slept in houses that collapsed overnight

Severe dust storms across northern India have killed more than 100 people, destroyed homes and left hundreds without electricity.

In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

Investment minimums are as low as twenty - five hundred bucks, and depending on whether we get a positive ruling on part of the JOBS Act, which is scheduled for this October, a company like SeedInvest might be able to open up its network beyond just in accredited investors, who have to be fairly wealthy, to allow investments by regular people.

British Columbia declared its first state of emergency in 14 years as the number of people under evacuation from hundreds of wildfires reached 14,000 and provincial officials warned that the experience — along with last summer's catastrophic fires in Alberta — represent a «new normal» for many Canadian communities.