Sentences with phrase «bigger than a town»

Always bigger than town — if everywhere's flat, Grande will have something to ride, and it's especially good when an off - season south combines with wintertime offshores.

Not exact matches

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

Time was, folks thought of the Pacific Northwest as little more than logging towns, seaports, and some of the biggest saloon stops on the way to the Yukon Trail.

They also want to make sure than any big enterprises in town provides union jobs.

With a population of just over 45,000 people, Cornwall is an «in - the - middle» kind of place — not quite large enough to be a city, but certainly bigger than a small town, and as a Read more...

That might mean outsourcing tasks rather than having to own the expensive real estate for vineyards and tasting rooms — and finding innovative ways to bring the wine to small towns, and big cities, as the son of a well - known California winemaker has done.

Generally, cities and towns with a population less than 20,000 qualify, but bigger cities are eligible if they are «rural in character» or don't have good access to mortgage credit.

That town is less than a half hour from where Big Butter Jesus once stood.

People are making their lives complicated more than they need to by making world problems their problems; go to some small town and ask farmer's wife what is her biggest worry when she wakes up!!

All the big towns around the Sea of Galilee where Jesus worked are more scandalous and reprehensible than was Sodom in Abraham's time, and they will be brought down to hell because of their recalcitrance (Matt.

The process of breaking down the primitive cultural monopoly of the bishop with the consequent approximation of parity of bishop and priest in respect to their ministry, as distinguished from their jurisdiction, proceeded unevenly, more rapidly in the big cities than in the small towns, more readily in the West than in the East.

It seems every second solicitor has been lamenting the lack of cases making their way through the court system as the big end of town attempt to use funds to further business rather than feed lawyers.

More than 30 such spots have opened in the past decade, hidden in rural towns around the biggest city, Burlington, amid the Green Mountains» stunning scenic overlooks.

Add lofty expectations for the Placer High football team on your shoulders and college recruiters from across the country coming into town to follow your every move, and the profile is almost bigger than the dome atop the Placer County Courthouse on the edge of town.

Don't blame the results on the fans who have been more loyal than you will find at any other big club where Wenger would have been carried out of town in tar and feathers 10 years ago.

With a population smaller than that of Washington, D.C., and a governor whose home number is listed in the phone book, Wyoming often feels like America's biggest small town.

Wins and wrecks, fights and flips — no driver brings more excitement to NASCAR's top circuit than Carl Edwards, whose big - game intensity is grounded in his small - town lifestyle.

Other than Blind, where the majority of search activity came from Holland, the bulk of searches around our other signings took place in Africa — Di Maria and Falcao were big news in Guinea according to Google's data, whilst Welbeck was the talk of the town in Kenya.

More than 3000 reds will make a short and joyous trip to one of the great cities of Europe to watch United take on Benfica away from home after a visit to lock horns with their biggest rivals Liverpool at Anfield and before hopping on the bus again to face Yorkshire - based Huddersfield Town in a string of three massively difficult fixtures away from the comforts of Old Trafford.

Because we knew we would not want to spend more time in the car we opted to stay in the tiny town of Alma, directly on the bay and right next to Fundy National Park, rather than in the bigger town of Moncton, which is a 35 drive minute from the bay.

With stunning views of the Sierra Madre mountains from the Pacific ocean, this area consists of the picturesque town of Zihuatanejo, which has the feel of a traditional Mexican fishing village, and Ixtapa, a modern tourist resort strip with big hotels and a marina with more than 600 slips

Other tips for the kids — ask for «Parque de Distractiones» (I think)-- most big towns have a fairground / amusement park and if you don't go on a Sunday it will be very quiet and the kids will have most rides to themselves (and you'll be hard pushed to spend more than 2 dollars on rides — they are all very old and simple but our (big) daughter loved them).

When you go to the Old Town School of Folk Music, you are learning something bigger than the guitar.

We pick up organic and local fruits when we are in smaller towns that enjoy a lower cost of living than our big city home town.

Rather than lug around the big diaper bag, we suggest you pick up a Petunia Pickle Bottom Cross Town Clutch ($ 95).

Less than five minutes after elections officials announced Tuesday night that Depew residents had rejected a referendum to eliminate the village government, some voters in the crowd at Village Hall began urging that Depew flex its muscles again and jump into an even bigger battle to try to become a town.

I feel equally passionate over the town's other houses of worship, especially the Presbyterian churches in Southold and Mattituck; big, bold Ostrabrama; Our Lady of Good Counsel, which looks more like an Anglican church in the Cotswolds than anything Roman Catholic.

Central government grants of all kinds to councils and other public bodies have increased far faster in cities and big towns than they have in country area.

He's a flood control manager, and I don't know a bigger problem in town than flood control.»

She then proceeded to talk about how such political matters tended to serve as «a distraction» to everything involved in running a small town, as well as how «partisan politics is more a state or national thing than something big in a town like Olive.»

The detail will now include a lieutenant, three sergeants and six detectives to chauffeur and protect Kelly and his family around - the - clock in the Big Apple and even out of town after he ends his 12 - year run atop Police Headquarters — at an estimated cost of more than $ 1.5 million a year, sources estimate.

It employs more than 1,300 people in a town not much bigger.

The town budget is bigger but not more complex than a household budget.

Mr. Sharpton later noted that the comparatively small town's officials had been braver than police leaders in bigger cities.

«You can literally wipe out a species by developing an area not bigger than a tennis court,» says Adam West, an ecologist at the University of Cape Town.

At CES, the world's biggest technology show, in Las Vegas last week, Google demonstrated more than 350 voice - controlled devices including speakers, cars and objects as well as a giant toy town complete with a railway.

It's like having a bigger motor in your car: Just driving around town in a Hummer will burn more fuel than driving the same distance with a Prius.

Living in a town where we don't know a sole except for co-workers and the next big city is a little less than an hour away, it is hard to meet friends.

We want to start with shorter road trips around Florida, and then we really want to do a coast to coast road trip (especially focusing on smaller towns rather than big cities).

I'm more comfortable in a small town than a big city and prefer the barn to the mall.

If you are in a small town your possibilities are lesser than in big cities - there simply are not that many single people online.

Over the Christmas and New Year period DatingDirect.com, the biggest UK online dating website, is predicting a 50 % increase in membership and is launching a four - week outdoor ad campaign employing 2,000 bus sides in more than 165 towns up and down the UK.

Synopsis: A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots.

Kristen Stewart stars as Amy Cole, a young woman who joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots.

Adapted from the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan, a much better title than the bland one Affleck and co-writers Peter Craig and Aaron Stockard chose, The Town is a solid drama about actual adults, featuring some excellently choreographed action sequences and is a big leap forward for Affleck's directing aspirations.

Despite being a simple small town cook and more than a bit of a bumbler, Sidhu has ideas of being something bigger, which indeed appears true when a couple of strangers from China claim he is the reincarnation of Liu Shang, a legendary warrior and their village's savior.

That after all this boom and rattle and global domination, this troupe of actors is doing nothing fancier or bigger than a little reading of Our Town, one of the most winsomely, wistfully American plays in existence.

To posit the argument against fracking, a highly likable Dustin Noble (John Krasinski) acts as a roving environmentalist plastering signs about the town condemning the fracking, even accepting a bribe from Global's agents and, rather than keeping quiet, using the money to buy more signs opposing the offers by Big Gas.

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When Black Panther star Danai Gurira was five - years - old, her parents moved her from Grinnell, Iowa, population 9,218, to their homeland of Harare, Zimbabwe — a bustling, urban city over two - and - a-half-thousand times bigger than the rural former factory town where she was born.