Sentences with phrase «city brought to its knees»

Prospect.1 artists contributed site specific contemporary pieces embedded around the city in a way that powerfully reinforced the unique challenges of rebuilding a historic city brought to its knees by a catastrophic event.

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With his sidekick Kato by his side, he used his unorthodox tactics to bring the city's mobsters and henchmen to their knees.
Massacre after bloody massacre contributes to a rising tension of fear and anger that culminates in a storm of fury when the Dalai Lama escapes Tibet and the capital city of Lhasa is brought to its knees.
As I pointed out, 100 people in the centre of a medium - size East Midlands city wasn't likely to bring capitalism to its knees any time soon.
«Wall Street Harry Wilson is in favor of preserving the federal tax loophole that lets hedge fund managers pay less on their taxes than the rest of the state, wants to turn over the pension fund to the same Wall Street bankers that almost brought our economy to its knees, is against President Obama's Wall Street reform bill AND wants to enforce a $ 2,500 tax hike on households outside of New York City in his first year if he was elected.»
New York City, NY About Blog Bringing arthritis to its knees since 1999.
In the near future, the government has run out of options trying to stop the city's maniacal crime lord - who owns the police force and is about to bring the city to its knees.
Crime is rampant in the city and Blake's disappearance is the latest in a frightening series of events that are slowly bringing New York to its knees.
But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father's legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)- who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war.
But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father's legacy.
Osiris» brother Set (Gerard Butler) overwhelms the city, bringing the peaceful kingdom to its knees.
At the September 15 board meeting, barely two weeks after the city had been brought to its knees, tensions boiled over in a racially charged session where, according to the New Orleans
His face is pale as he watches us, as we march out of the city we once brought to its knees.
Driven by an insatiable hunger to bring the city to its knees, the allure of its women and the pleasures they offered slowly consumed him.
Still haunted by her last encounter with Wolfe and searching for her mother, Sienna Nealon must put aside her personal struggles when a new threat emerges Aleksandr Gavrikov, a metahuman so powerful, he could destroy entire cities and he's focused on bringing the Directorate to its knees.
This excerpt from the Twin Cities Real Estate Radio Show covers the pressures that are bringing the mortgage industry to its knees.
New York City, NY About Blog Bringing arthritis to its knees since 1999.
The city was brought to its knees when Spanish conquestors invaded Mexico.
If you are a city person who finds it hard to relax, this villa will bring you to your knees that's why we keep our floors so clean... people have been known to kiss it on their way down.
Sandman and other villains in a nefarious scheme to bring the city to its knees have joined Electro.
But this time the game will reportedly be an origin story, explaining how the vice-cop and his furry, feral companion «first come together as partners against those who would bring the once great city to its knees
It is also likely that not very many in the Rose Garden that day could imagine that severe drought would soon paralyze Texas and Oklahoma several years in a row, that massive floods would take hundreds of lives and destroy billions of dollars of property, that glaciers would recede, coral reefs would bleach and die off, or that extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy would bring New York City and much of New Jersey to its knees.
New York City, NY About Blog Bringing arthritis to its knees since 1999.
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