Sentences with phrase «city built upon»

As a globally famous tourist destination, a centre for conferences and trade fairs focussed on technology and industry, and a functioning city built upon an area of outstanding natural beauty, Las Vegas provides a fascinating array of opportunities for artists to develop their ideas and practices.

Iwasaki, who is based in Hiroshima, will be showing a work called Upside - Down Forest, which addresses the nature of Venice as a city built upon wooden stakes as well as the design of the iconic Itsukushima Shrine.

Altissia is the city built upon the water.

From Stockholm, the remarkably beautiful Swedish city built upon 14 islands, you'll hop the train for Copenhagen, home to a myriad of Danish architectural marvels, parks, walkways and waterfronts.

It was once a wealthy medieval city built upon the silk trade.

«Batman: Arkham City builds upon the critical and commercial success of Batman: Arkham Asylum and firmly solidifies the Arkham brand as a triple - A action adventure franchise,» said Martin Tremblay, President, Warner Bros..

Batman: Arkham City builds upon the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum, sending players flying through the expansive Arkham City — five times larger than the game world in Batman: Arkham Asylum — the new maximum security «home» for all of Gotham City's thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds.

Saraceno's exhibition underlines SFMOMA's longstanding commitment to experimentation and conceptual practice in art and architecture, and his airborne cities build upon the forward - thinking radicalism and progressive social change which has continually been a focus of SFMOMA's Architecture and Design collection.

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However, Los Angeles is slowly building the capacity to become a global center for innovators and entrepreneurs, as the city draws upon its considerable resources to embrace the technological challenges and opportunities of the fourth industrial revolution.

The whole reason Humanity is plagued by tribalism is because once upon a time, we all spoke the same language and worked together to build a city with a tower for the world.

Upon this model of hierarchy we have built our political systems — from the Greek city - state and the Roman Empire to feudal castes, the Holy Roman Empire, and modern nations.

But folded into her narrative are small prose - hymns to Oxford, «an old - fashioned city, with inconvenient buildings and narrow streets...; but her foundations were set upon the holy hills and her spires touched heaven.»

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

4 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 and lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

Her book was refreshingly un-abstract and densely empirical, built upon an accumulation of lovingly rendered details about what works and doesn't work in modern city life.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Will se but if he is to go to City make it a swap and get 1 or 2 of there players upon which you can (re) build a proper squad for 38 games.

In this week in 2006, Chelsea were not able to build upon an impressive opening day win at home to Manchester City (when the famous spine of John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba delivered the goals) when we played the first away game of the season.

First up is a trip to Merseyside, where a resurgent Everton are aiming to build upon their recent success over mega-spending Man City, in a fixture the Toffees have dominated over the years.

A rock - solid defence has been the foundations upon which City's encouraging campaign has been built upon, however their impressive string of clean sheets, with City keeper Joe Hart having kept four shut - outs in City's previous five home clashes, will come under serious threat on Saturday when the buoyant Tangerines of Blackpool come to town aiming to score in their fourth successive away encounter.

He says they had to group Democratic Senators in the New York City area together because of two new Senate districts built upon communities of interest, one first ever Asian American district, and one Orthodox Jewish district.

«Upon completion, the benefits of the Sibley Building's new apartments, senior living amenities, and office and retail space will not only be felt in City of Rochester, but throughout our entire community.

«The city's environmental testing firm will do lead testing upon referral from city building inspectors.»

Less remarked upon, however, was the renewed commitment in the speech to building the Northern Powerhouse, and empowering cities in the North to fulfil their economic potential — another key way in which the Government hopes to leave its stamp long after Cameron has left office.

«It's rewarding to work with Habitat for Humanity New York City and help create an environment where hard working families can thrive in the city and build upon their futures,» said Sharmi Sobhan, Executive Director, Community Development Banking, ChCity and help create an environment where hard working families can thrive in the city and build upon their futures,» said Sharmi Sobhan, Executive Director, Community Development Banking, Chcity and build upon their futures,» said Sharmi Sobhan, Executive Director, Community Development Banking, Chase.

For all his verbal assaults upon former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, his budgets and his appointments, he nonetheless was able to form a relationship with Mr. Bloomberg's Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner, Shaun Donovan, which helped him build the most city - subsidized affordable housing units of anyone on the Council.

Mike Bloomberg built upon his predecessor's public - safety reforms; shepherded the city through two grave economic crises, the post-9 / 11 local contraction and the 2008 recession; and laid the groundwork for significant public - education reform.

Collaborating with more than ten City agencies, the initiative will build upon existing regulatory reforms by reaching small businesses and under - served New Yorkers across the five boroughs, promoting education and compliance as part of enforcement, and reducing violations by focusing on cross-agency collaboration to simplify rules and compliance processes.

Previously, Martinez - Rubio was Associate General Counsel at the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH), at DOT and at the NYC Department of Buildings upon completing a prestigious post-graduate fellowship on City government at New York Law School's Center for New York City Law.

At 12:45 p.m. Monday, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, joined with Unite Here 100, will rally for food service worker retention, supporting a bill that expands upon the 2002 Displaced Building Service Worker Protection Act to include food service workers from being fired from work after a new owner takes over a business.

Logically, the best place to search was under modern Jerusalem's Temple Mount — also a tel, upon which much of the ancient city was built.

THE METHODS In 2000, Gerard Karsenty, a molecular geneticist at Columbia University in New York City, discovered that leptin, a hormone made by fat cells, helps mold and repair the skeleton by acting upon bone - building cells called osteoblasts.

The area upon which the city has been built is known in the local Yidiny language as Gimuy.

Once upon a time Duke de Richelieu decided to build a city as beautiful as Paris, it was an order of

Directed by Mark Waters (Freaky Friday; Ghosts of Girlfriends Past; Mean Girls), who paints his story upon the tableau of New York City with featured tourist stops including the Guggenheim Museum, the Flat Iron Building, and (naturally) Central Park, the cinematic Popper is no longer a poor house painter like his literary counterpart.

Actress Bailee Madison discusses her shows «Good Witch,» and «Once Upon a Time» during AOL Build Speaker Series at AOL Studios In New York on February 12, 2016 in New York City.

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The truly spectacular action sequences never falter, more seamlessly blending live - action performance and stunt work to CGI marvels: a rampaging battle staged on the side of a building and a runaway train sequence easily trounce the efforts of the first film, and Raimi's effects team (again supervised by John Dykstra) also subtly improves upon the hero's web - slinging transit high above the city streets.

Once in New York, King Kong rampages through the city, tossing cars, demolishing buildings and snatching planes from the sky while pilots repeatedly fire upon him.

While New York City's schools are far from perfect and much can be done to build upon the Bloomberg - era reforms, Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Fariña should reflect on how far the schools have come before embarking on wholesale changes.

For example, in the upcoming year Dede will build a virtual ecosystem built upon River City.

This is a tremendous opportunity for the city, and builds upon a successful history that has brought more than $ 5 million in grants to Hartford.

The Syracuse City School District Transformation Plan is built upon four high impact levers for transforming education: Curriculum and Instruction, High Quality Teaching and Leadership, Innovation and District Structure and Standards of Service and Systems of Support.

«This gives us the opportunity to build upon our teacher leadership programming and work with the New York City Department of Education, and refine a model that can be replicated and sustained in school districts across the country.»

A representative from the Thurgood Marshall Academy discussed interest in working with families to help students persist at the college where they originally enroll, while school staff from Capital City Public Charter School brainstormed ways they could build upon their existing family engagement strategies to deeply reach the greatest number of families at their school.

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By his count — derived from New York Civil Liberties Union and Insideschools.org records — at least 178 schools in New York City still have permanent metal detectors students must walk through upon entering the building.

Like countless other cities across America, New York's personality is built upon generations of forgotten landmarks.