Sentences with phrase «cities were in decline»

For me it was in the arts, music, The Beatles and many others and culture where we shone when the city was in decline.

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There is no reason why the April employment data should show such a massive decline in the labour market conditions of five cities in three provinces.

Montgomery City Lines which operated the town's bus service was already experiencing a decline in passengers and revenues in the early 1950s.

As per the title, he thinks the urban environment is our greatest invention as a species, and explores the economic underpinnings of assorted cities, ascendant and in decline, today and through history.

Ritchie Torres, who chairs a city council committee on public housing, said at the press conference that there was a direct link between the falsification of permits and the decline in affordable housing in New York.

This is the city's first decline in population in 26 years.

The dramatic move marks a watershed in the long decline of a city that at one time was the center of the U.S. auto industry and the birthplace of Motown, but that has seen its fortunes sag and deficits rise.

The city is weighed down with debt, billions in unfunded pension obligations, declining credit ratings, a police department often accused of using excessive force against African - Americans, a rising tide of murders, and a host of other troubles.

The Trump golf course that was built and subsidized by New York City saw as 12 percent decline in revenues in the past year, according to The Washington Post.

Thefts involving smartphones have declined dramatically in three major cities since manufacturers began implementing «kill switches» that allow the phones to be turned off remotely if they are stolen, authorities said on Tuesday.

Neither city saw an improvement in their scores and their advances were largely due to declines in livability in other cities.

«If you are a city or state with a rising concentration» of chain stores, or branches of existing businesses, «you see a faster decline in your startup rate,» says Litan.

What he offers is a sympathetic portrait of a city managing its own decline and groping its way toward a new 21st - century identity, a struggle that's playing out in a number of Rust Belt cities, from Cleveland to Gary, Ind., to Hamilton.

«The number of applicant cities now is in decline in part because people are beginning to see these mega-sports events as mega-bad deals,» says Dr. Robert Baade, an economics and business professor at Lake Forest College.

Following years of increasing employment and wealth driving up rent and property prices in San Francisco and surrounding cities, demand for luxury housing appears to be on the decline and housing and condo price appreciation have «basically plateaued,» according to Paragon Real Estate Group.

In six of the 10 cities surveyed by the lender, the ratio declined, meaning it is getting easier for most Canadian homeowners to manage their mortgage payments.

That's too bad, because private equity is accelerating a decline that will be felt by millions in every major city.

The decline in Uber's market share was consistent in all four of its top markets: New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, TXN found.

«The year - over-year decline of $ 27 million was largely due to a $ 24 million decline at NRT, which was primarily a result of greater agent commission costs and softness in the New York City market,» said Anthony Hull, the company's treasurer.

«And so if Trump somehow really managed to eliminate or dramatically reduce the U.S. trade deficit, one consequence of that could well be a decline of the value of real estate — not only in the New York City area, but throughout the United States.»

Overall, while no single indicator can be regarded as definitive, the preponderance of price falls in the major cities suggests that for Australia overall, house prices declined in the March quarter.

The average price of houses that sold over the Multiple Listing Service in September was $ 385,906 nationally, up 8.8 per cent from a year ago, in large part because pricey cities, such as Toronto and Vancouver, are rebounding from steep sales declines a year ago.

The detached market (over $ 1.5 M) has been declining for months now, but in a small city like Vancouver with a lack of supply, I don't expect to see prices dip below where they were in 2016.

Despite this, rental yields even in these cities have declined to levels that are low by international standards and past experience.

In Melbourne, auction prices for inner - city apartments (defined to include properties in the CBD and adjoining suburbs) have been broadly flat or declining since 2000 (Graph 33In Melbourne, auction prices for inner - city apartments (defined to include properties in the CBD and adjoining suburbs) have been broadly flat or declining since 2000 (Graph 33in the CBD and adjoining suburbs) have been broadly flat or declining since 2000 (Graph 33).

Unfortunately, due to the decline in the steel industry and the corruption that took place in Youngstown for years, the city is poor.

The religious schools, which are only concerned with teaching the Qur» an, Islamic doctrines, and Arabic, have greatly declined in the cities and villages because of the spread of modern schools and are now found chiefly in the desert and the lodges of the Sufi orders.

Nevertheless, without exaggerating the extent of the decline of the work ethic among the poor, one should note that community leaders in the inner cities are themselves increasingly concerned about the dysfunctional behavior of the poor.

The loss of the shops is related, of course, to the decline of the city (this one and others) as a place in which one can raise a family.

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

Churches «most likely» to experience decline shared three characteristics: they were founded before 1900, they were located in cities, and their membership was more than half female.

For a while Protestant Churches appeared more willing to support missions overseas than they were to support missions in American slums or in the declining inner - city areas.

The Toltec empire had emerged in central Mexico, where Mayan city states were in decline.

As small towns, small firms, inner cities, in spite of and at times, in their own way, because of gentrification, decline, and suburban life styles become increasingly mobile, privatized, and fragmented, the loss of the sense of community is more acute.

Football has sadly become a business first and a sport second.The fact that Man City have spent a fortune to win the EPL is not relevant to the decline in the fortunes of Arsenal which can be attributed purely to Managerial incompetence..

It is widely acknowledged that City have an ageing squad that seems in decline, and Pogba is now a top target for the club as part of their rebuilding process.

The fact that United are just bad and City really don't care about the league means Arsene will come and say look at Chelsea, City and Man Utd, we are in front of all of them, but the true reason they are in such a decline is their bad managerial decisions.

City were strong for the first half an hour, but then gradually declined in form, allowing Arsenal to get back into the game.

Ferguson for his part is not the most forgiving of creatures and surely Rooney's defiance in 2010, when he said the United team was in decline, threatened to join Manchester City, and eventually exacted an enormous # 250,000 a week revised contract, must have stuck in the manager's throat.

The was a concern that the six goals conceded at Manchester City could have been the start of a defensive decline, but it was just a blip as the Gunners have only conceded one goal in three games since, and that came from a goalkeeping error from Szczesny.

It has, however, been a steep decline ever since − a 5 - 0 loss at home to Manchester United was their third successive league defeat, having lost to both Manchester City (2 - 3) and Liverpool (3 - 1) in August − and now the Trotters find themselves hovering precariously above the bottom - three in the table, just a point better off than Norwich.

Whether this reduction accounts for the recent decline in the city's rates of heart disease remains to be demonstrated, but getting rid of trans fats certainly hasn't hurt.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is undertaking one of the biggest challenges of his year - old mayoralty after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's annual report on the securities industry in New York City released today found the cash bonus pool and employment are expected to decline, while profits overall will rise.

Despite continuing declines last month in most serious crimes, New York City has witnessed an increase in rape complaints, something police officials think has been caused by sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein and other celebrities.

Cuomo declined to comment extensively on the prospects of New York City Public Advocate Tish James being appointed to the post after Democrat Eric Schneiderman resigned in disgrace on Tuesday.

The «Sex and the City» star is targeting the decline in service during Gov. Andrew Cuomo's two terms in office.

But when graduation rates are still stuck at 61 percent and the city itself is in a state of decline, the association should broaden its agenda past social justice to actual service.

The New York corporations want to be included in the plan to move to a payroll tax, but the administration source declined to name companies, citing instead the Partnership for New York City, which represents business leaders and employers.

«In New York City alone, the number of deaths from smoking has declined so much and the number of deaths from obesity has gone up so much, those two are about to cross.