Sentences with phrase «city governments around»

«This is partly due to city governments around the country and partly due to the private sector, on the part of those of us who bemoaned the state of city parks for the past several decades.»

Twenty four city governments around the world have pledged 10 percent of their budgets to climate resilience, a total of $ 5.2 billion that will directly benefit 33 million people.

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But attacks claimed by IS in and around the city last week killed more than 100 people, sparking anger in the streets over the government's failure to ensure security.

More than 2,500 cities around the world — many of which had the support of their local governments — submitted proposals to be among the first locations with a working Hyperloop.

It's offered around the U.S., often in conjunction with city governments and nonprofits.

But it's also home to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, a federal «city» of government offices that revolve around the nation's largest rocket - engine test facility.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

Kurdish forces had pulled back to Syrian government - controlled areas around the city of Aleppo, or to the Kurdish - held region east of the Euphrates river, he said.

Around 1,500 members and supporters of the South African Federation of Trade Unions take part in a march through Cape Town city center on April 25, 2018, to protest against the government's proposed minimum wage.

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

But unlike the transit hub, built largely with federal transportation money, the church is being funded through donations including from the Greek government, Greek Orthodoxchurch members around the world, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and the Italian city of Bari, whose patron saint is St Nicholas.

And when we realize that the average person today is paying the federal government around 25 % of their income, and then paying another 10 % (or more) for state, county, and city taxes, we are paying a little more in taxes today than what was prescribed by the Mosaic Law for the people of Israel to pay their government.

I think we should put a giant wall around DC, prevent anyone from leaving, and then move the federal government to another city and start again.

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PPS: Maybe much of what the government did was basically just sitting around waiting for something to happen, which is fine, but I'm still curious how an early Village would evolve into a polis city state, and what governance issues they had to deal with from a human perspective, ie daily.

At issue were comments O'Luck made on the Times» City Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.&raCity Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.&racity, state, and federal government dollars spent.»

Dabiri, said that the forum would hold at the City Hall, Lagos Island, is also in line with government's quest to turn around the fortunes of the Agency around through effective Public - Private Sector partnership.

As the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill makes clear, it only really sees power as something that can be centralised in large city regions outside of the capital, not spread around all our city centres.

Around 200,000 Romanians have taken to the streets in cities across Romania and the world to protest against the government's recent approval of draft legislation for an open - pit cyanide - based mining project at Rosia Montana.

«I think that when you look around today and see many shared concerns and challenges left unaddressed, it makes you consider the role you have in fixing things in government, be it appointed or elected, city or state, big or small.»

The new disclaimer language leaves out appointees to public authorities, which represent some of the most influential bodies in state government, including the New York Thruway Authority, the New York Power Authority and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subway, bus and commuter rail system in and around New York City.

The question that continues to ricochet around the city is which of these defendants will become government witnesses and who can they take down.

The event will bring together around 25 - 30 invited senior level attendees from cities, business and policy with a senior speaker panel representing national and local government, and business.

«The recent rash of wrongdoing by legislators in Albany has shaken the public confidence, the public trust in government — from one end of the state to the other,» Cuomo said in announcing the commission on Tuesday flanked by district attorneys from around the state and New York City.

While the Conservative Government continues its Northern Powerhouse and devolution projects, this roundtable will be a chance to discuss the fundamental priorities for cities around the country, in particular their transport provision, and debate what Labour's vision for urban transport systems should be.

We can't just ask for money from the federal government and the state government and let the city crumble around us while we wait for someone to come.

Statewide, there were enough GOP victories rolling in around 11 p.m. on Election Night for Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos to declare in a statement that «New Yorkers have chosen balance and bipartisanship over an entire state government made up of Democrats from New York City, and placed their trust in Republicans to lead the Senate.»

Building on his administration's valuable 311 program, he promised to make government more accessible by translating city websites into six languages, distributing more information via Twitter (follow @ 311nyc) and social networking sites, enabling users to fine - tune their usage of NYC.gov around their personal information needs, and creating a free iPhone application allowing people to submit quality - of - life complaints to 311 directly from their phone.

As she campaigns around Eastern Queens, City Council candidate Rebecca Lynch emphasizes her experience working in city government — if not the mayor she worked City Council candidate Rebecca Lynch emphasizes her experience working in city government — if not the mayor she worked city government — if not the mayor she worked for.

The point was to talk about government policy — how do we all get around in a continually growing city?

This kind of local control is not unique to New York City government, says Paul Graziano, an urban planning consultant and Queens preservationist, who said the practice occurs «pretty much everywhere around the country» in state legislatures and in the federal government.

The amendment, which excludes large municipalities such as New York City, would bar federal reimbursements for state Medicaid funds raised from local governments, effectively shifting around $ 2.3 billion in Medicaid spending from the counties to the state.

At the gathering in New York City they successfully urged governments to sign onto a political declaration to combat antibiotic resistance in their own nations and around the world.

Economic considerations and environments for doing research enter in Sharon Traweek's description of Tsukuba Science City and its relationships with the surrounding area, and Gary Lee Downey's examination of the industry - university - government complex formed around a computer program for aircraft design.

Mayor Reardon hopes the high school internship and mentoring programs he has helped establish within the city government and within some of the county's high - technology firms will help turn around those low scores on education.

Until now, the International Space University has consisted of classes held each summer in various cities around the world, supported mainly by grants from governments and corporations.

«A pervasive problem around the world is that city governments are not strong enough,» Romer said, citing the example of New York City seizing land from private property owners in 1811 to construct the present street gcity governments are not strong enough,» Romer said, citing the example of New York City seizing land from private property owners in 1811 to construct the present street gCity seizing land from private property owners in 1811 to construct the present street grid.

Applicants from around the country, including representatives from city governments, corporations, nonprofits, schools, universities, museums, and libraries proposed plans to increase STEM mentoring in their areas for the chance to share over $ 1 million in resources.

The federal government granted the DOE money to help turn around 33 of the city's lowest performing schools — but a condition of that grant was improved teacher evaluations.

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It has a consistent economy based around government, military and educational sectors and so see fewer ups and downs in the market than major cities like Vancouver and Toronto.

Royal LePage CEO Phil Soper says the housing correction in Vancouver began seven months ago, around the time that the B.C. government introduced a 15 per cent tax on foreign nationals buying real estate in the city.

Even government is not as much based in Berlin as other governments are based in their capital city, some ministries remain in Bonn, some other institutions are spread around, and for those who are in Berlin lot of gov officials commute from other cities.

Arizona republicans complain about the federal government micromanaging the state, but they turn around and do the same to cities and counties in Arizona.

As a participant in the city's open - government initiative, Austin Animal Center has released around sixty data sets and data views for the public to access.

During the session, Dr. Alexis Tam, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR Government elaborated the city's historic and cultural roots, which can make a strong tie that connects Macao with peoples of different regions around the world, with more friendly visits, exchanges and cooperation based on Macao's diverse cultural gems, such as cultural heritage, religion, Macanese community, returned overseas Chinese and immigrants as well as historic connections with Portugal.

This movement is usually cited as having begun in some of China's larger cities around the year 1985 but it only lasted a few short years as the government soon cracked down on such expressions of individualism around 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square horror.

Pakistan faces about 5000 MW electricity shortfall which has forced the government to cut power for around 12 hours everyday in major cities including capital Islamabad.

Of course, Earth Hour 2009 is just around the corner... And Earth Hour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world, inviting communities, business and governments to switch off lights for one hour at 8:30 pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take action.