Sentences with phrase «city borders on»

On a more fundamental level, the notion that adherents to a religion of around 1.6 billion people should have to engage in community outreach to legitimate their presence in a major European city borders on insulting.

But last night, over 500 km up the road, in Miranda de Ebro, a city bordering on the wine swilling La Rioja region, 6,000 locals were packed inside the Estadio de Anduva hoping to raise their glasses to one of Spanish footballs big giant killing stories.

Not exact matches

BEIJING, May 2 (Reuters)- Chinese property speculators are starting to bet on a rapid improvement in relations between North Korea and the rest of the world, pushing up prices in the border city of Dandong and even spurring buying interest in the world's most isolated country.

BEIJING, May 2 - Chinese property speculators are starting to bet on a rapid improvement in relations between North Korea and the rest of the world, pushing up prices in the border city of Dandong and even spurring buying interest in the world's most isolated country.

There was a wave of public resistance from those who feared American - style retailing on this scale would pulverize smaller players, and politicians in Vancouver also lobbied to keep the retailer outside of city borders, citing environmental concerns.

The Trump administration wants tougher immigration and border security measures, crackdowns on sanctuary cities, green card restrictions and money for a border wall.

The «Friendship Bridge» is seen in the background as Chinese men take part in morning exercises on the Yalu river in the border city of Dandong, Liaoning province, northern China across from the city of Sinuiju, North Korea on May 23, 2017 in Dandong, China.

That's an issue that has long been close to the city - state's heart given its historic reliance on water from bordering Malaysia.

The city of Nogales in the state of Sonora on the Mexico side of the border is seen across the border wall from Nogales, Arizona on October 12, 2016.

Plattsburgh, whose residents are a quick jaunt from the Canadian border, has put an 18 - month moratorium on cryptocurrency mining to preserve natural resources, the health of its residents, and the «character and direction» of the city.

In his ruling, Rhodes said that settlement, which was key in winning the support for the plan from Detroit's two retirement systems and scores of city workers and retirees, «borders on miraculous.»

Donald Trump listens as Laredo City Manager Jesus Olivares, center, and Laredo mayor, Pete Saenz, right, talks to the media along the U.S. Mexico border during his trip to the border on July 23, 2015 in Laredo, Texas.

A more open North Korea will also create more chances for economic development in Chinese cities, such as the border city of Dandong and those struggling to restructure local economy in Northeast China's Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces, Jin Qiangyi, director of the Asia Research Center at China's Yanbian University in Jilin Province, told the Global Times on Tuesday.

This trend is the same within the borders of the United States, the more secular states have lower unemployment, better education programs, healthier people, and safer cities, but than you have all the states in the bible belt sitting on the bottom of the list together in almost every category except religion.

The drug lords need to have their drug income reduced by about 95 percent so they can no longer bribe local and national officials, and can no longer finance government and local police forces to protect their drug traffic, and spread terror throughout all those Mexican cities on the border, and then have the terror cross the border into our American cities.

Damascus, a great trading center on the western border of the Fertile Crescent, is a very ancient city — perhaps the oldest anywhere in the world which still exists — while Antioch is famous for the fact that here the followers of Christ were first called Christians.

A distant relative of mine from the Deep South as a child refused to step outside his family's car parked on a Cincinnati street out of a sense of bestrangement, fear, and contempt for the residents of that (border) northern city.

Shenzen is the city on the border.

When Barnabas and Saul arrived in Jerusalem with the collection the church in Antioch had raised for the mother church, they found the Christians in the Holy City in a state of disarray bordering on panic.

A landmark study on the trade flow of organic food products across the borders of the United States reveals that a robust global appetite for organic food has created new lucrative markets from Mexico City all the way to Hong Kong for U.S. organic producers — but also provides strong evidence that American farmers are losing out on some valuable opportunities by not growing more organic.

This 2,150 - square - foot luxury apartment is located on the 14th floor of an iconic building in the Puerto Madero neighborhood — a favorite area among those «in the know» situated on the banks of the Rio del Plata on the border of San Telmo and Boca, two very trendy and important historical districts of the city.

The city is also a partner with the Ultimate Fieldhouse, a two - year old basketball haven located on the border of Concord and Walnut Creek.

I think it was more the manner in which we approached away games against the top 5 or 6 teams last season, we looked completely unconvincing bordering on abysmal sometimes when we faced chelsea, city, man u, liverpool, everton.

While our membership is centered in California's San Francisco Bay Area, our territory also includes the coastal counties of Northern California from Monterey to the Oregon border, the Stockton - Modesto area of California's Central Valley, and the Reno - Carson City - Lake Tahoe area on the California - Nevada border.

This city had belief that bordered on recklessness.

Located in northern France, Lille has a large university population and is a city based on Flemish influences due to its close proximity to the Belgian border.

Given Liverpool's failure to qualify for European football this season, you'd imagine that most fans will be looking forward to this away day, as the Reds cross the Welsh border to face Swansea City on Saturday.

KEY FACT: Sergio Aguero has scored in each of his last four appearances against Burnley MATCH ODDS: Burnley 12/1 Draw 5/1 Man City 2/7 bet365 Pick: Man City to win & under 2.5 goals @ 9/4 ANDY SAYS: Don't see City struggling here, comfortable win... 0 - 3 GRAEME SAYS: Burnley won't make this easy, wouldn't rule out a draw but City just... 1 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Easy City three points for me, has to be... 0 - 4 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Kevin De Bruyne still not in the top - ten, borders on criminal

Zenit will kickoff their 2017/18 Russian Premier League campaign this weekend with a 8,800 km trip eastward to the city of Khabarovsk (near the Chinese border) to take on SKA.

According to a story published on the website, OnlyNews.com, the weekend after the election, a girl's volleyball team from Archer City, TX (about 2 hours north of Dallas) was playing against a team from Fort Hancock ISD in Snyder, TX (a town on the Texas / Mexico border which happens to be 97 percent Hispanic) when students from Archer City starting chanting «Build a Wall!»

Characterized by a mix of urban and suburban neighborhoods, Brookline is bordered by the City of Boston on three sides.

The beach, with borders extending from Ohio Street on the south to North Avenue on the north, is the city's second largest public beach, says Joe Pecoraro, the Park District's general supervisor of beaches and pools.

That's on the border between the city's Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods.

- The City of Evanston and the Skokie Park District just opened their Pooch Park in Channelside Park, on the Skokie / Evanston border.

Yeonmi Park: «I hope my book will shine a light on the darkest place in the world» Yeonmi Park was born in the North Korean city of Hyesan, close to the Chinese border, and brought up in the brutal and paranoid atmosphere of the Kim dictatorships.

«The courts have been very, very clear on what cities... our role, when it comes down to border patrol and when it comes down to enforcing immigration, and we are following what the courts have already outlined,» the mayor said.

A city that relied heavily on dollars from payments by a Native - run casino within its borders is now living without that money and making some tough decisions to address a budget gap.

On Monday Israeli warplanes struck the university and government buildings in Gaza City as tank and soldier numbers increased on the border with the Gaza StriOn Monday Israeli warplanes struck the university and government buildings in Gaza City as tank and soldier numbers increased on the border with the Gaza Strion the border with the Gaza Strip.

Detractors include Assemblyman David Weprin, who represents eastern Queens; City Council member Barry Grodenchik, for neighborhoods on the Long Island border; Thomas Grech, executive director of the Queens Chamber of Commerce; and assembly member (and former mayoral candidate) Nicole Malliotakis, repping south Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Fighting broke out there on September 24, and was followed on Thursday by clashes in Sud - Kivu's second largest city, Uvira, which is on the border with Burundi.

For those who live outside city borders, members say taking away the competition between cities, towns and villages, and focusing on county - wide economic development would go a long way.

However, the ambitious project by the federal government to build a smart city, on a 1,260 hectares piece of virgin land located several kilometers Southeast of Nigeria's capital, Abuja is embroiled in several controversies, all bordering on alleged fraud.

After several failed efforts to secure official recognition for rapper Christopher Wallace, who also went by Biggie Smalls, New York City's parks department has renamed the basketball courts at Crispus Attucks Playground, roughly on the border between Clinton Hill and Bedford - Stuyvesant, in his honor.

«We believe the communication borders on a threat,» John Sickinger, the city's senior assistant corporation counsel, wrote to Bharara in a letter composed the same day.

North of US 20, US 62 parallels the Thruway northward to the village of Blasdell, located on the border of Hamburg and the city of Lackawanna.

«We believe the communication borders on a threat,» John Sickinger, the city's senior assistant corporation counsel, wrote to Bharara in the letter.

The 10th Senate District lies on the state's northwestern border, just outside Minnesota's Twin Cities.

Spectrum News Rochester is available on channels 9, 14 and 200 exclusively on Spectrum for customers in dozens of towns, villages and cities stretching from Lake Ontario south to the Pennsylvania border.

A stipulation in the bill requires the independent preparatory school to come to terms with the Rye City Council first on a shared - use agreement for the 4.7 - acre vacant land parcel located parallel to the private school, along Boston Post Road and at the entryway of one of Rye's municipal borders.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A state employee who tried to help Cor Development Co. get a building permit at the Syracuse Inner Harbor has been suspended from his job after city officials accused him of improper behavior that «borders on being a threat.»