Sentences with phrase «booming town of»

Mistrust fighting hate, anger curbed by greed, as the sons race across the great continent of Australia towards destiny, towards the once booming town of Broome, towards... Eight million dollars...

History, architecture and culture might not sound like things you can find in the rainforest, but there's plenty of it on offer in the faded rubber - boom towns of the Amazon.

Not exact matches

Signs of the tourism boom abound in Siem Reap, the town near many of the hundreds of temples constructed during the Khmer Empire, which once stretched from Myanmar to Vietnam.

But, before accusing others of failure, it is sobering to look at remarkable examples of poverty in boom town Perth.

An early business hauling manure to local farms using a surplus army truck evolved into a lucrative outfit dedicated to transporting uranium ore out of Elliot Lake, Ont., during that town's 1950s boom.

But perusing newspapers from towns where fracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing regularly.

Q: Fort McMurray is a resource town and, as such, is subject to the boom - and - bust aspect of oil's price.

The heavy pressures of a being boom - town have created many unique growth and social challenges in this northern Alberta community that could easily become an issue in a locally - focused by - election.

Born in Basel, in 1886, he had returned at the end of his university career to be the minister of the church in the little town of Protestant Aargau, north of Lucerne; and there, during the war period, he had preached on Sunday mornings before the good peasant folk, to the antiphonal booming of guns in near - by Alsace.

Where Protestantism still boomed was on the dry, scrubby ridges above town, in hard - scrabble aldeas that clustered around government schools and Church of God chapels.

Instead the seers have grown wealthy as a result of their claims — and so has their town, which has boomed as a result of the «Madonna gold rush».

«Before the peso devaluation, Brownsville was a booming town,» remembers Pete Charles, president and owner of Rikeln Inc., which owns the 29,000 - square - foot Foy's Supermarket in Mission, Texas, and the 31,000 - square - foot El Globo.

Oz - Town is a fresh new approach that gives Australian companies access to the rewards of the booming Chinese market while negating the perils of such a large and complex marketplace.

The city has had a boom and bust history first as the capital of the region and important shipping center during the gold rush years, and then as a party town during Prohibition.

Located in the booming foodie town of Charlottesville, VA, Parallel 38 is a new type of restaurant whose menu is inspired by the world's most iconic food and wine regions (Alicante in Spain, Italy's Calabria, the Greek Ionian Islands, Napa Valley and Charlottesville)-- all of which sit along the 38th parallel.

In the last 30 years, it has become known as «The Little Apple,» and is a booming town full of families.

In a district with 22,000 students (67 percent eligible for free or reduced meals) located in a population - boom town (4th fastest growth in the US), everything starts in a 12,000 square foot central production facility where nearly 100 percent of the district's meals are prepared from scratch and sent out in bulk to schools.

Destruction of thousands of houses during WW2 sparks major boom in council housing, shaped by New Towns Act 1946 and Town and Country Planning Act 1947

The towns which relied on them are now full of older, discontented baby boomers.

The Capital Region town of Bethlehem is facing a potential housing boom with more than 1,200 units in the construction pipeline, new town supervisor David VanLuven said during his «state of the town» address.

The town of Bethlehem is facing a potential housing boom with more than 1,200 units in the construction pipeline, new town supervisor David VanLuven said during his «state of the town» address Monday.

They omitted tourist towns that experience a population boom half of the year and fall silent for the rest, for example.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

«There's a whole body of literature that shows that mining boom towns undergo similar changes,» Beckmann says.

Focusing on just one aspect of lawlessness — sexual predation — the study has found that twice to three times as many sexual predators are flocking to the boom towns as to nearby tourist, ranching and farming communities.

Joel Berger, a biologist at the University of Montana in Missoula and the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered in New York, and lead author of the study, says that the work was inspired by an older study that found increases in wildlife poaching in oil and gas boom towns.

Petroleum, engineering and construction workers are flooding into the Bakken for the high pay, and more than half the state's employment growth in those jobs took place in Williams County, with the town of Williston at the boom's center.

Hutton's first documentary feature was Crude Independence, a portrait of small - town life during the present - day oil boom in North Dakota.

Tall and square - headed, with hooded eyes and a booming voice, he was the son of doctors (a neurologist and a family practitioner), had grown up in Bath, a prosperous west - of - England spa town, and joined the Royal Free in November 1988 after training in Toronto, Canada.

Online dating is a boom town with ramifications too deep to ignore, but it might not be wise to put all of our shotgun shells down its barrel.

Mark Brooks: This niche will experience a major boom with the introduction of Cougar Town.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — When I first came to the Telluride Film Festival in 1980, screenings were held in Quonset huts and city parks, the old Nugget theater on Main Street, and in the faded glory of the tiny Sheridan Opera House, built when this was a boom town in mining days.

Using one of four town ordinances, the mayor can change aspects of their town; they may choose from the Keep Town Beautiful, Early Bird, Night Owl, and Bell Boom ordinantown ordinances, the mayor can change aspects of their town; they may choose from the Keep Town Beautiful, Early Bird, Night Owl, and Bell Boom ordinantown; they may choose from the Keep Town Beautiful, Early Bird, Night Owl, and Bell Boom ordinanTown Beautiful, Early Bird, Night Owl, and Bell Boom ordinances.

Entertaining for much of its short runtime, A Town Called Panic deserves a look, especially from those who'd like to see an animated film straying from the lucrative models of the booming CGI market.

The oil boom has brought thousands of new residents to the town, almost all of whom work in the Bakken oil fields in Montana and North Dakota.

(In French and Arabic with subtitles) Red Hill (R for profanity and graphic violence) Bloody revenge saga, set in the Australian Outback, about a young sheriff (Ryan Kwanten) who takes a transfer to a supposedly - serene, remote outpost for the sake of his pregnant wife (Claire van der Boom) only to find the town besieged by an escaped con (Tommy Lewis) with a grudge.

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.

Episodes included are: «Rose»; «The End of the World»; «The Unquiet Dead»; «Aliens of London»; «World War Three»; «Dalek»; «The Long Game»; «Father» s Day»; «The Empty Child»; «The Doctor Dances»; «Boom Town»; «Bad Wolf»; and «The Parting of the Ways».

When a small town in North Dakota suddenly becomes the center of an oil boom, it turns into a modern Deadwood.

The wonder of the flawed The Claim is that Winterbottom's choices to compress events, to transplant the action from Hardy's fictional Wessex to a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas, and to reimagine the pivotal set - pieces of the novel from Hardy's autumnal fall to a wind - blasted mountain winterscape, are to a one, faithful to the feeling and effect of not only Hardy, but also the death of the American West myth.

Taking a page out of the Blue Collar Comedy Handbook (and no, it wasn't written by Jeff Foxworthy), «The Full Monty» tells the tale of Sheffield, a flourishing industrial town of the early»70s that saw a sudden decrease in productivity during the big technology boom twenty - odd years later.

It's a remarkable look at the town of Williston, ND, one of the only towns in America that found itself booming during the country's recent economic hardships.

To faithfully recreate the boom - town feel of post-war Los Angeles, the filmmakers assembled a superlative team of behind - the - scenes talent, including production designer JEANNINE OPPEWALL, director of photography DANTE SPINOTTI and costume designer RUTH MYERS.

There is the economic one, which pits the idea of a traditional way of life in a rural town (farming) with the influence of industrialism and the promise of an economic boom that having a big business enterprise in the area could bring.

Consider consequences of the Gold Rush before explaining in detail why each feature of the Boom Towns lead to law and order problems.

Another aspect of my experiences growing up that you'll see reflected in the book is the sharp dichotomy between the haves and haves - not - the town that's booming with development while just on the other side of the forest there's a village that is crushingly poor; or the skyscrapers going up in full view of ramshackle houses.

Barnes & Noble returns with a boom effect and becomes the talk of town.

Patricia Polacco's magical retelling of a meteor landing and a small town's oversized reaction to this family event booms, blasts and marches through this earthshaking production.

And if those movies remain precious to you, hit the Weta Cave in edge - of - town Miramar (via bus number 2) for a taste of «Wellywood» — a cheeky nod to the area's booming movie business.

This is causing a housing boom to both the south and northwest of town.