Sentences with phrase «back the streets of»

Hot from the back streets of Cottesloe come reports that our Alan is working on his first property deal since leaving the comforts of Karnet.

There's a lovely part in the document in which Pope Francis says he prefers a Church with shoes that are dirty and messy, because they have trod the back streets of the world, to one whose shoes are shiny because it has stayed within itself.

We walked the back streets of Sarlat and watched people come and go.

Don Cockell was acclaimed by sportswriters on both sides of the Atlantic for his ability to absorb hundreds of Marciano's hardest blows, and one Englishman went so far as to write that»... this was the kind of extra courage which makes you proud to belong to the human race and to have been sired by the same breed as the boy who grew up in the back streets of Battersea.»

So said, Alex, my kindergartener, as I frantically raced through the back streets of Berkeley, cursing under my breath, clenching the steering wheel, snapping at my boys, all the while attempting to get them to their soccer matches on time.

Globalmouse recently posted... Exploring Cannaregio and the back streets of Venice, Italy with children

The Shoki dance movement went from the back streets of Lagos to galactic heights in the music video of U.S. Hip - Hop artist, Missy Elliot.

Three days after the disaster, former Black Stars skipper Stephen Appiah accompanied by Founder of Civil Society Organisation New Africa Ghana and President of Petronia City Development, Nana Kwame Bediako made their way through the back streets of Adabraka, one of the suburbs worst hit to deliver some relief items to the victims of the flood.

Then theres the unexpected: Though I never get carsick, on a recent trip a colleague drove maniacally through the back streets of a desert city on a really hot day (with no air conditioner), and I kicked myself for forgetting to carry my favorite nausea remedy.

love this edgy look — fits well in the back streets of la for sure xo, sharon

Adapting an 1848 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky of the same name, Luchino Visconti transposed the action from the canals of Tsarist St Petersburg to the back streets of 1950s Livorno — to this day, one of the oddest and most idiosyncratic of Italian cities.

KISS OF THE DRAGON (Grade: C --RRB-: In the lively but incredibly dumb, chopsocky thriller, Jet Li plays a Beijing police detective being unjustly hunted in the back streets of Paris by a mad dog Sûreté inspector (Tchéky Karyo).

Yes, there were the twenty minutes we spent trapped in the back streets of medieval Pisa, sent down a procession of dead - ends and blocked alleyways and then into a complicated pedestrian - only area by an insistent dashboard robot whose deep confusion attracted the strong disapproval of the local population.

The first prototype car appeared in late 1911, and Louis Chevrolet himself tested it on the back streets of Detroit.

These guys know the «Ring the way The Drive knows the back streets of Brooklyn.

Until one November day filled with dark, Wuthering Heights weather, when I followed an ad in a VW mag and bought Molly in the back streets of a Northern England industrial town.

When she's not writings, she's «reading all the fiction I can load onto my Kindle, running slowly for miles and miles, and messing around in the dark alleys and back streets of the Net.»

My guide, Cesar, took me through the back streets of the hip Barranco district to sample key local food groups — Pisco Sours, grilled cow hearts and wonderfully fresh ceviche — in a variety of low - key venues.

Villa 18 is a cozy little abode nestled in the quiet back streets of the area known as Bumbak.

Sydney's most historic precinct recalls the back streets of stateside Colonial era hot spots like Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.

The warehouse - filled back streets of the East Bay are attracting urban wine warriors who like blending and bottling in the middle of city buzz.

Perhaps visit the island of Murano, famed for its glass, or cross the Rialto Bridge to explore the Venetian mask shops in the back streets of San Polo.

@lunaticcarl Wandering back streets of Abu Dhabi as half moon rises in the gloam.

Villa Kayu Raja is a delightful private villa set in lush, dense and secluded tropical gardens down a quiet back street of Seminyak.

This clue gathering process will continue for a few locations, taking you around the back streets of London through to landmarks such as Buckingham Palace until a potential suspect is found.

He is in the video for his work with Bekka Wright (AKA Bikeyface) to take back the streets of Boston.

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We've set up decoys for some of our high - profile clients when the paparazzi are out on the street — we'd have a car go in one direction, and they'd go out the back.

And Quid's office, which is accessible through a winding corridor from the office's street - level entrance, reminded him of one of his favorite buildings from back home.

Cohn's departure would further set back those efforts and perhaps give the upper hand in the White House to a group of advisers seeking to scale back foreign trade, said a Wall Street executive who asked not to be named.

According to at least one Wall Street research firm, the number of iPhone owners planning to upgrade to the next model is at a historical low, and recent reports suggest Apple has scaled back iPhone production by half.

In a profile of him published in the Guardian back in 2007, when Schwarzman was known as the «King of Wall Street» and lived in a 35 - room Manhattan apartment with 13 washrooms and 11 fireplaces, writer Andrew Clark quoted an interview of Schwarzman describing how he approaches a big negotiation.

«It is an indication of the changing dynamic in the world that a skill set, maybe we didn't spend a lot of time on in the last 15 years, is coming back,» Capt. Jim McCall, commander of the air wing on the USS Bush, told The Wall Street Journal at the time.

It, like everyone, was hit hard by recession, and did what a lot of companies did: dramatically reduced costs, laid off workers, raised prices, and went back to customers and said, «I'm sorry we can't honor this contract...» The response from Wall Street was, «Wow, you've done a great job managing your costs!»

«If you went back 25 years and explained the idea for adding an artistic flair to a bunch of street performers, if you took that to Dragon's Den, you'd get a lot of eye rolls and people saying «no way,»» says Matt Thompson, «And look what they've done with it.

And if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face — white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere — I'm walking back to the other side of the street,» he says.

Wall Street hated it, but Congress enacted key parts of the accords under the Dodd - Frank financial reform act, which President Trump started to roll back on Friday with the latest of a series of executive orders.

It was 1997, and the headstrong trader had just launched a new hedge fund backed by a proprietary computer program that he believed could cut through the chaos of the market and reveal truths invisible to the rest of Wall Street.

After a two - year slide due to an economic implosion that saw Wall Street, big banks and other key recruiters of MBAs scale back their hiring, the MBA made a comeback in 2010.

Apple has not disclosed Watch sales figures — either in dollar values or unit shipments — but Wall Street analysts and other dedicated Cupertino Kremlinologists have generally settled on a back - of - the - envelope consensus of slightly over $ 1 billion.

An attempted hack into Georgia's voter registration database was traced back to the Department of Homeland Security, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

If I see a white guy with a shaved head and tattoos (on the side he now is on), I'll move back to the other side of the street.

Downtown Las Vegas is just 2 miles north of the Strip -; the glittering, Wall Street - backed tourist attraction in unincorporated Clark County -; but it often feels much farther away.

Rubio would roll back the Dodd - Frank banking act, which has imposed tighter regulations on the large Wall Street banks in the wake of the recession, as part of a push to decrease or eliminate government restrictions on businesses.

He added that ICOs backed by real assets would allow companies to circumvent much of the Wall Street middleman apparatuses, such as the army of investment bankers and venture capitalists, and sell directly to would - be stakeholders.

Now he's harnessing his frustration with Wall Street fees in a new venture called FeeX, which calls itself «the Robin Hood of fees» because it strives to put money back into the hands of investors and consumers.

Most homes here sit well back from the street on a massive plot of land or are obscured from the street by a dense set of trees.

The Hart Schaffner Marx Burnett Trench Coat would not have looked the least bit out of place when worn by a stylish gentleman strolling down a rainy Chicago street back in the 1940s.

The startup is Austin - based Main Street Hub, or MSH — its social -, Web -, and email - marketing service claims to help «merchants get more customers and keep them coming back by spreading word of mouth, extending their customer service, managing their online reputation, and leveraging Main Street Hub's merchant network.»

Just over a month ago Barclays, Credit Suisse, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, HSBC, MUFG, and State Street joined UBS and BNY Mellon in a project to launch a cryptocurrency — the «utility settlement coin» — set for a limited back - end run by 2018.

In Chicago, 28 - year - old Brenda Burciaga was among thousands of people who marched through the streets to push back against the new administration.