Sentences with phrase «city as a desert»

Later, McQ apologizes to the people of Casablanca for portraying the city as a desert.

Not exact matches

The Boston Univ. campus is deserted as everyone is urged to stay indoors and city is shutdown.

Socially speaking, the city was as barren as its desert.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

By contrast, people put their heads down and hurry across what, as Corbin reports, Bostonians call the «brick desert» of City Hall Plaza.

As for Hezekiah, the terrifying splendor of my majesty overcame him, and the Urbi and his mercenary troops which he had brought in to strengthen Jerusalem, his royal city, deserted him.

What a strange pulsation there is to human life: as night comes on, active scenes are in a few hours deserted; not a soul is in sight except the occasional watchman or late reveller, and whole cities lie silent — cities of the dead, it might well seem, except that with the turn of the earth and the dawn of new day they revive to another brief and hectic activity.

There are many illustrations of their nostalgic attachment to the old ways, such as their tendency to escape into the desert for sports and physical and spiritual refreshment, the practice of sending their children to be reared in Bedouin encampments to protect them from the effects of city life, and the legends of the desert which beguile their evening hours.

Kroenke cost cutting, I wasn't disappointed when he left for City, average player while he was with Arsenal, no experience as a manager, deserted us for big money, no, bring in a top manager like Simeone, Tuchel, Loew, Enrique etc etc...........

We have been impressed as we have used it in the city and in the country - even in the desert!

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

A number of refugee communities, (e.g. in Saint Louis and Great Detroit and in Wisconsin), have migrated to Rust Belt cities where they have filled inexpensive neighborhoods largely deserted by the original residents and revitalized by them as ethnic enclaves.

Driving into the town, it was easy to observe that the city wasn't bubbling as most roads were deserted, exotic mansions abandoned and fine hotels had low patronage even with their generous discounts on accommodation.

Known for years as one of the city's «food deserts,» where access to fresh fruits and vegetables are scarce, the South Bronx has some of the highest diabetes and obesity rates in the city, according to the Department of Health.

Bill Clinton: The former president's endorsement came as much of the city's Democratic establishment was deserting Mr. Rangel.

Over the past 500 years, the original desert - dweller has expanded its territory as far north as Alaska, south into the tropics and deep into many cities.

City streets, industrial sites, parks and gardens were once seen as biological deserts.

As the West warms, residents will need more energy to cool living spaces and make desert cities like Tucson and Scottsdale inhabitable - and will likely have less water to make enough electricity to do that.

When I was a college student in California, I prized my weekend trips to the desert city as an opportunity to, well, do it up «Vegas - style,» taking the city up on the debauchery waiting at every corner: swilling far too many cocktails, eating gourmet fried Twinkies and tater tot nachos, and pulling the blackout blinds in my hotel room to keep up my vampiric hours.

As more than 90.000 people were expected at the festival the roads were packed and it took us some hours to arrive at Palm Springs, a little city close to Indio fron which Coachella Valley is a part of, located in the desert.

Much like Pompeii, Ephesus is a city frozen in time, crumbled streets that were once bustling years ago, bold and proud buildings scattered, remnants of a flourishing city that almost as quickly as it rose, was suddenly deserted.

I bought Desert Boots one week ago as a casual boots for long walking around the city.

The visuals are decent at parts such as desert cliffs or city overpasses yet it all ends up feeling the same.

The city itself features a bevy of ingenious design choices from directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore, such as the way every district — a desert, a tundra, a rain forest — is climate - engineered (giant heaters for the desert sprinklers for the forest).

The plot is sometimes a little uneven but the style and setting of the film wins through as Hanna passes through snow covered tundra, Moroccan deserts and gritty European ports and cities.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

Tagline: In the future, cities will become deserts, roads will become battlefields and the hope of mankind will appear as a stranger.

«America to Me» follows students, teachers and administrators over the course of a year in Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School to explore issues plaguing the modern teenager; «Carnage» follows those transforming ordinary vehicles into battle machines in the South African desert; and «Music City» documents the lives of five up - and - coming musicians as they chase fame, success and romance in Nashville.

But as her car approaches the deserted city's limits, a mysterious figure appears in the road, forcing Rose to swerve and crash.

Our work with teachers and students has demonstrated that an inner - city classroom in Philadelphia can feel as connected to traversing the Arabian desert by camel as they do to the cross-town bus.

As if he were not alone in the center of a deserted square in a besieged city, where even a relief truck will no longer come.»

Knowledge at this stage should include Africa, Russia, Asia and the Middle East, with a focus on their environmental regions such as deserts as well as major cities.

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For something geared to off - roading in some picturesque locale — pictured on the hood of the Desert Hawk, as a matter of fact — the Renegade is a surprisingly comfortable and maneuverable urban vehicle, ready for the busted road infrastructure of our cities.

My week of toddling around town and playing in the desert, as well as the 600 - plus - mile round trip on the highway, netted me 16.8 miles per gallon, a bit lower than I would expect with the EPA's rating of 15 miles per gallon in the city, 21 on the highway and 17 combined.

The reader touches, feels, hears, tastes and sees the Middle East and North Africa as it really is: cosmopolitan cities, villages, towns, desolate mountains and deserts.

The desert is vast, as are the Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains, and here, far from the cities and cultural centers, one can find places removed from the camera - wielding crowds.

The central character of Wolves of the Crescent Moon is Turad, a Bedouin and former desert bandit who, as the novel opens, finds himself in the Riyadh bus station with no destination other than one that will take him out of the city he has come to loathe.

But as his city is surrounded by desert, it has no ships nor are there trees to build any.

Las Cruces, also known as «The City of the Crosses» has nearly 100,000 residents and is at the foot of the Organ Mountains and the Chihuahuan Desert.

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This desert city's arid climate serves as the perfect backdrop for spas and golf resorts.

• Amazon cruise: Take an intimate river cruise • Atacama Desert, Chile: Hike the salt flats and volcanoes • Buenos Aires: Try a tango class • Easter Island: See the mysterious statues • Galápagos Islands: Spot Darwin's finches and other wildlife • Iguazú Falls, Brazil: Stay at Hotel das Cataratas by the thundering falls • Machu Picchu: Enter the citadel as the Incas did through Sun Gate • Mayan sites: Take an archaeologist - led tour • Mexico City: See Diego Rivera's murals at the Palacio Nacional • Oaxaca, Mexico: Enjoy Slow Food dishes at La Biznaga • Patagonia, Argentina: Admire the Perito Moreno Glacier • Rio de Janeiro: Go on a helicopter ride over the city • Salvador de Bahia, Brazil: Take in the festival atmosphere of Old City: See Diego Rivera's murals at the Palacio Nacional • Oaxaca, Mexico: Enjoy Slow Food dishes at La Biznaga • Patagonia, Argentina: Admire the Perito Moreno Glacier • Rio de Janeiro: Go on a helicopter ride over the city • Salvador de Bahia, Brazil: Take in the festival atmosphere of Old city • Salvador de Bahia, Brazil: Take in the festival atmosphere of Old Town

Pittsburgh Airport has been shedding its image as a deserted hub and has been courting airlines for new routes to the Steel City.

You can do desert safaris in both places (in my opinion desert safaris are one of the best things to do in both places), as you can do water sports activities, helicopter rides, and you can shop in both cities pretty well.

When we planned our trip to Peru, hiking the Inca Trail was on our itinerary, as well as exploring the cities of Cusco and Arequipa, a foray into the Amazon Jungle, some sand boarding in the desert oasis of Huacachina, and a bit of island hopping on Lake Titicaca.

Situated on the edge of Thar Desert, this city of forts and palaces presents a bluish aura as most of the buildings are painted in blue.

We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well.

One of the world's driest deserts, the Kara Kum Desert, covers around 80 percent of this country and you will see cities such as Merv and the capital Ashgabat looming from the sand as you journey into the country.

Literally translating as the «City of Love», Ashgabat is sandwiched between the Kara Kum Desert and the Kopet Dag mountain range.