Sentences with phrase «came to town in»

Nintendo, which set up shop in Redmond a year before Microsoft came to town in 1986, sold Microsoft some of the land that became its campus during one of the company's growth spurts.

As Burke gets to know people in town — bartender Beverly Brown (Juliette Lewis), Sheriff Pope, Dr. Jenkins — and finds one of the missing agents, Kate Hewson (Carla Gugino)-- he discovers something disconcerting: Beverly came to town in 1989 and has been there for a year, while Kate, who has been missing for five weeks, has been there for twelve years and married for the last eight.

When NBC came to town in search of fresh faces for casting, he made it into the top 20 out of over 3,000 hopefuls.

When IBM executives came to town in 2013 to look at potential sites for the company's new offices, part of another Buffalo Billion project, Kaloyeros asked executives from LPCiminelli to show them around.

I remember, as a boy, when those Yankees teams came to town in the»20s.

Indeed there hasn't been as much brute force in Tuscaloosa since General J. T. Croxton came to town in 1865 and burned down most of the university.

I would, however, add the clarification that God was probably working on drawing Lydia to Himself long before Paul and Silas came to town in the same way that He works on drawing all people to Himself.

Booker was the No. 13 pick in 2015, coming to town in the wake of a regression season for Phoenix.

And Clemson comes to town in a month.

Michigan's run defense will be tested when BYU comes to town in a few weeks, but D.J. Durkin's D should give the Wolverines a chance to win games.

Acting Fair Director Troy Waffner says the project has come together quickly, and it will mean big changes at the facility by the time the Syracuse Nationals car show comes to town in mid-July.

Gather your best group of morally ambiguous mutants and strap on some matching costumes, because X-Force is coming to town in Deadpool 2!

Next Monday a Felyne will come to your town in #ACHappyHome via SpotPass, bringing #MonsterHunter items!

UPDATE (10/26): Nintendo of Europe has announced on Twitter that Monster Hunter's Felyne will be coming to towns in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer via SpotPass this next Monday, November 2nd.

Who: RZA, Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu, Jamie Chung, Rick Yune and Dave Bautista What: A humble blacksmith defends his village from a band of assassins and mercenaries when they come to town in search of a fabled treasure of gold.

Spying on guests, a murder, and the arrival of an oddball sheriff ensue when Cage comes to town in the old school thriller.

Oh how I wish Jackson could come to our town in N. GA and rescue some of our kittens!

Jazz festival: Also in Alanya is the International Jazz Festival, which comes to town in late September for a week of events.

Come to town in spring and you can watch screenings at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

Santa Claus is coming to town in the world of Overwatch as newly discovered audio files in the games files has a Christmas themed version of the game's theme.

This might all change when the circus comes to town in October.

Actually more specifically, Glendale has got a very specific game coming to town in 2015.

I look forward to coming to town in October for the market!

Not exact matches

He had a vision to build a town centre (most of the residents came from small towns) that would also provide a change of pace from the monolithic shopping malls in the area.

«The household sector has been pretty much the only game in town when it comes to driving broad Canadian GDP growth,» wrote Scotiabank economist Derek Holt in an unsettling note this week.

FOND PARISIEN, Haiti — Two Haitian brothers came back to their homeland to build a livelihood on Lake Azuei, a turbulent expanse of water that has often been cruel to those living along its shore, flooding homes in the border town of Fond Parisien and blocking a key highway into the Dominican Republic.

While all of those things still exist, they are no longer the only game in town when it comes to distribution, and therefore they are no longer the only game in town when it comes to making money from control of that distribution.

«When we started, we were very focused on the 18 - to - 25 crowd in university towns coming to us after the bars,» says Smolkin.

Most online platforms report hundreds of hotels in the town (TripAdvisor lists more than 300), though concrete numbers are hard to come by.

Meanwhile, Amazon recently announced that it will build a second headquarters that could effectively turn the chosen city into a company town — much like what happened to Seattle when the online retail giant came to Seattle in the late 1990s.

Kobo's town hall space is where visiting authors come to speak as part of the company's ongoing Kobo in Conversation series.

«It seems to revolve around country music and concerts — when there's a big show coming into town, we see a big spike in sales.»

The attack comes just days after a separate incident involving union workers at a soon - to - be shuttered Goodyear plant in the French town of Amiens, who held two executives hostage as they sought to negotiate bonus and severance packages.

In the true south of the country on the shores of the Mediterranean, this town of about 2,000 residents is a bustling market town popular with locals who come from all around the region to taste the locally grown produce and artisan goods — a truly French experience.

There's also the important point that Amazon is by no means the only game in town when it comes to big companies hiring workers who are free to work from home.

The apparent chemical attack in Douma, a rebel - held town in Syria, over the weekend came days after Trump said he wanted to pull U.S. forces out of the country.

A number of parties that were unrelated to the festival, but had sought to take advantage of so many DJs in town during the coming days have been canceled, he said.

A foreign promoter attending the electronic music festival who was at an event in another Playa del Carmen location during the shooting, said many people who came to town for the festival had been unnerved by the bloodshed and left for Tulum to the south.

In general, just because you are coming to town, it doesn't mean that it is a good idea to fill up your schedule.

With their headquarters in the active mountain town of Park City, they bring in talent from all over and keep them excited about coming to work every day.

There's a solution I like, and it comes courtesy of Hollywood — specifically, from actress - writer - producer Mindy Kaling, whose impressive success as a young woman of colour in a town run by old white men routinely spurs people to ask where she gets her confidence.

In one of the start - ups I work with, the founder takes the team to lunch whenever someone who works virtually comes to town.

When it comes to thinking about what could be done, it's important to remember that monetary policy isn't the only game in town.

Hours before, I met up with Robert Kiyosaki at his hotel in Santiago to have a drink and catch up; he's in town giving a series of seminars and invited me to come over and hang out for a bit.

This illustrates the basic economic reality that productivity growth is the only game in town when it comes to raising the economic and financial well - being of people over a long period.

EMC Perth - Federal Liberal leadership contestant touches down in Perth, Vancouver lawyer Alex Burton running as «outside Ottawa bubble» candidate The federal Liberal leadership race came to town on Monday... Read More

When it comes to investing in startups, these men and women are the most powerful players in tech's most important town.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers will huddle in an isolated New Brunswick resort town for three days starting Sunday to discuss what they can — and can not — accomplish during the coming parliamentary session.

Called The End Is Now [here's our review], it tells the story of the Henderson family and what happens when their small town becomes the test market for the rapture — the spiritual event in which some Christians believe they will be taken up to heaven prior to Christ's second coming.

He added: «If you feel called to plant, we need you on the outer estates, we need you in our northern towns, we need you in areas where a majority of people come from other world faiths, we need you in those areas where the trendy coffee shops and artisanal bakers are hard to find.