Sentences with phrase «capital cities of the world»

I'd like to see every British embassy in every capital city of the world showcasing British music.

I may be biased, but I think it is one of the most beautiful capital cities of the world.

In Tournaments, the game presents a number of popular and well - known capital cities of the world to flaunt your supremacy, including New York, Paris, Tokyo, Las Vegas, London and Shanghai.

Not exact matches

Dubbed by many as the «Spring Break Capital of the World,» Panama City Beach hosts nearly half a million co-eds every spring and keeps them entertained with outdoor concerts and contests, sandy beaches, popular restaurants and bars with extended happy hours, and even an amusement park.

The city became known as the «Oil Capital of the World.»

At Wolfprint 3D's white egg - shaped pod in a suburban shopping mall in Estonia's capital city Tallinn, six cameras and a touch screen allow people to create a high - resolution 3D face and enter the increasingly personalized world of virtual reality.

Once said to be the most crowded city in the world, Edinburgh also has been long praised as one of Europe's most beautiful capitals.

About 80 miles south of San Francisco, the city is often called the «Garlic Capital of the World.»

So there's really no better place to catch the 2011 World Cup of Rugby, which runs in various stadiums across New Zealand from Sept. 9 to Oct. 23, than the country's capital city.

As a result, over the past decade global luxury brands started expanding into the capitals of oil - rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the U.A.E., giving women access to shopping on par with the biggest European cities (Dubai is home to the world's largest shopping mall) and higher consumer expectations.

Data from CB Insights found that Beijing, Tokyo, Shanghai and Bangalore were among the top six cities in the world in terms of growth in venture - capital deals and dollars in 2014.

(Its capital city of Caracas recently overtook San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for having the world's highest homicide rate.)

Point is: If you think of Panama City as a Third - World capital, you need to think again.

In Panama you can have it all: a cosmopolitan capital city with one of the world's largest financial districts... hundreds of miles of spectacular beaches... highland retreats with green valleys where the weather is spring - like, even in January and August... and did you know that there are never any hurricanes?

The Rotman School is in downtown Toronto, Canada's financial, commercial and cultural capital, consistently ranked one of the best cities in the world in which to live.

In Panama you can have it all: a cosmopolitan capital city with one of the world's largest financial districts... hundreds of miles of spectacular beaches... highland retreats with green valleys where the weather is spring - like, even in January and August... and as Jim and Abbe Gault can tell you, there are never any hurricanes.

Since 2008, A.T. Kearney has annually ranked the world's most innovative cities, and for the second straight year, the City by the Bay topped the group's list of cities with the greatest outlook «to attract and retain global capital, people and ideas.»

Many movers and shakers in and around New York City, the capital of the banking and hedge - fund world, work in or populate the verdant suburbs next door in Connecticut.

And that two of these are not cities, but regions, shows that while the retail giant has clearly made this bidding process for its next headquarters an exercise in trying to extract the most generous tax breaks from municipalities, in a perfect world Amazon would plant «HQ2» in the nation's capital.

Houston is known as the Energy Capital of the World as the city is home to more than 3,000 energy - related companies.

The Atlantic last year found that the U.S. is home to the top six metros and 12 of the top 20 cities with the highest levels of venture capital investment in the world.

More than 200 investors and entrepreneurs from around the globe will soon converge in Kansas City as part of one of the most highly - esteemed venture capital organizations in the world.

Queen City Fintech provides fintech startups access to world class mentors, capital, and leading financial services organizations; all in the heart of global banking hub Charlotte, NC.

At Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, you are transported to the City of Lights with all the same passion, excitement, and ambiance of Europe's most romantic city, with all the excitement of the entertainment capital of the woCity of Lights with all the same passion, excitement, and ambiance of Europe's most romantic city, with all the excitement of the entertainment capital of the wocity, with all the excitement of the entertainment capital of the world.

Boston has become such a preferred location for tech startups that Mayor Marty Walsh recently stated that he expects the city to become the tech capital of the world, according to Mashable.

The ancients imaged the universe in terms of four directions or quarters horizontally, laid out relative to the society doing the mapping, with the center of the world located in the holy city and / or capital of each nation in turn.

Mosul, the second - largest city in Iraq, is built on and adjacent to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, the setting for the biblical book of Jonah and once the most powerful capital of the ancient world.

Yet at the war's end, the Polish capital suffered more damage than any other city during World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 85 percent its buildings were destroyed, while only 400,000 residents out of a prewar population of 1.3 million (including only 11,500 of 360,000 Jews) survived.

A World Vision worker in Mexico City has told Premier of his horror when a major earthquake struck near the Mexican capital, killing hundreds of people.

In its last centuries as capital of the Byzantine Empire, it was not only the holy city of the Orthodox world, dedicated to the Mother of God, but also a cosmopolitan trading centre, with Venetian, Genoese, Muslim, Jewish, Slav and Avar inhabitants.

But we know that the faith of Yahwism - Judaism was maintained in essence and in practice not only in Palestine but in other areas of the Greek - Hellenistic world and especially in the ptolemaic capital city of Alexandria.

With particular pertinence to the present discussion, Levada, for all his considerable gifts, did not distinguish himself in his teaching, and his seeing to it that others taught, the Church's moral doctrine during his ten years as archbishop of San Francisco, a city commonly called the gay capital of the world.

Boston, after all, is known as the Athens of America, not the Corinth of America: This city, with good reason, has been called the academic capital of the nation — and, given the massive accumulation of institutions of higher learning here, it may well be called the academic capital of the world.

The capital of Great Britain is the second most visited city in the world, with a number of visitors totaling to almost 15 million in 2008.

It's strawberry season here in the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World aka Plant City, FL..

LAS VEGAS (October 20, 2015)-- Carbone, the Greenwich Village sensation that made waves in New York City's dining scene, made its debut in the entertainment capital of the world last night as it officially opened its doors at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

EAGLE, ID, August 15, 2006 — Along with the rest of the Boise area, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) is busily preparing for the Sixth World Potato Congress & Farm Show set to occur in Idaho's capital city Aug. 20 - 26.

Despite being the capital city of one of the world's most important countries, D.C. is calm and serene.

The southern state of Andra Pradesh is the chile capital of the entire country, and, according to The Wall Street Journal, the city of Guntur is the hottest city of that state and is another location competing for the title of the hottest city in the world.

On its 20th anniversary ProWein, International Trade Fair Wines and Spirits, not only transformed the exhibition center but also the entire city of Düsseldorf (Germany) into the international wine and spirits capital of the world.

The capital city Seoul now has the highest concentration of pure Kona coffee shops world wide, with more than 10,000 cafes.

And it's all brought to you in New York City, the entertainment and restaurant capital of the world.

On November 18 and 19, 1988, Santa Fe chefs successfully defended their city's modified title of «Mexican Food Capital of the World... and Elsewhere» at the Mayor's Chile Challenge held at Sweeney Center.

Think again, because in 1987, Tucson Mayor Lew Murphy proclaimed his city «The Mexican Food Capital of the World and Elsewhere.»

While the combination of spaghetti and chili might sound sacrilegious to you, in the world of chili eaters outside of Texas, the «Queen City» of Cincinnati is the undisputed chili capital of the world.

After the crash, it's like that for everyone in Humboldt, a small city of roughly 6,000 that once claimed to be the mustard capital of the world.

Featuring all eight field events alongside all track events from 100m through to the 1500m, plus 4x100m and 4x400m relays, the Athletics World Cup will follow on from the success of London 2017, which saw the capital become the first city ever to stage both the World Para Athletics and IAAF World Athletics Championships in the same year.

Dr Bawumia's comments dovetail into those recently made by Deputy Finance Minister Abena Osei Asare who said there is «no country in the world that doesn't borrow» in defence of the Akufo - Addo government's borrowing for certain projects, including one that aims to make Ghana's capital city, Accra, the cleanest in Africa.

Even Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the oldest surviving bank in the world, whose headquarters dominate the hilltop to the northwest of Valdimontone, has funded capital projects including biotechnology research labs on the city's outskirts.

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