Sentences with phrase «city in the nation by»

With higher rents for higher - income residents, these projects will be self - sustaining and contribute to desegregating New York's metropolitan areas, which are among the most segregated cities in the nation by race and class,» Hawkins said.

If it can maintain the current pace of euthanizing thousands of fewer adoptable animals each year, L.A. is poised to become the largest no - kill city in the nation by 2017.

Beaverton was ranked as the «best places to live» among the smaller cities in the nation by Money Magazine.

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In a single day on a business trip, Gerber says he will often have five meetings in a 40 - mile spread across sprawling Los Angeles, the nation's 12th largest city by areIn a single day on a business trip, Gerber says he will often have five meetings in a 40 - mile spread across sprawling Los Angeles, the nation's 12th largest city by arein a 40 - mile spread across sprawling Los Angeles, the nation's 12th largest city by area.

The city's mayor, George Heartwell, has set the goal of switching to 100 percent renewable power by 2020, and the city has been recognized as a center of expertise in sustainability by the United Nations and the most sustainable midsize city by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Siemens.

That raises the possibility of court challenges by First Nations, blockades along the pipeline route between Edmonton and Kitimat, B.C., and rallies in major cities during the run - up to a federal election that must be called by October 2015.

As one of the nation's fastest growing cities, Seattle's housing market is hot, driven in part by a booming tech scene.

With those stats from the city of Oakland's Department of Race and Equity in hand, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on Drcity of Oakland's Department of Race and Equity in hand, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on DrCity Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on Drugs.

A key sponsor for Energy for Defense II was the APC, headquartered in the Twin Cities and operated by Defense Alliance, one of the nation's three U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)- funded Advanced Defense Technologies Clusters.

The uptick in rents at the national level is being mirrored in many of the nation's biggest markets — the map below show's month - over-month rent growth for the nation's 100 largest cities (markers are sized by population):

This is the gospel Isaiah learned from God when the religion and nation of Judah died, and the city of David, the temple of Solomon and the ethnicity of Yahweh were demolished by Babylon in 586 BC.

Reagan, it must be conceded, flirted with it in his biblically informed vision of America as a «city on a hill» providentially established by God as example to the nations.

The nation's biggest evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant leader's opposition to gay marriage.

In 12: 1 - 13:6 Judah and Jerusalem are vindicated against the nations and made victorious by Yahweh's intervention; the city repents and mourns for someone martyred in a just cause (the historical allusion is unknown); and Yahweh now removes all idolatry and prophecy (degenerate prophecy, prophecy of a mercenary and corrupt form), and effects Jerusalem's spiritual cleansing in a divine fountaiIn 12: 1 - 13:6 Judah and Jerusalem are vindicated against the nations and made victorious by Yahweh's intervention; the city repents and mourns for someone martyred in a just cause (the historical allusion is unknown); and Yahweh now removes all idolatry and prophecy (degenerate prophecy, prophecy of a mercenary and corrupt form), and effects Jerusalem's spiritual cleansing in a divine fountaiin a just cause (the historical allusion is unknown); and Yahweh now removes all idolatry and prophecy (degenerate prophecy, prophecy of a mercenary and corrupt form), and effects Jerusalem's spiritual cleansing in a divine fountaiin a divine fountain.

More than 2,500 years ago, in the bright of day, somewhere in a large Middle Eastern city, the king of a small nation strips down to his underclothes during a religious ceremony and dances to the rhythms of tambourines, castanets and cymbals punctuated by the melody of lyres, harps and other guitarlike instruments.

Once a spiritual seeker and member of the Nation of Islam, Bernard went on to criticize its theology, but continues to focus on issues faced by African Americans and Hispanics in the inner city.

And we can see that nation (i.e., «people») ultimately trumps place, even if place usually helps to make the nation (such as ours), and even if the one nation in history that was capable of surviving dispersion was the one that always looked back to the one holy city not consecrated by human invention or delusion.

In reality, people in modern Western nations are cared for on a scale impossible to imagine for anyone in the Middle Ages, and while that world was populated with the damaged and disfigured, as is many a Third World city today, it's foolish to imagine that they were cared for by noble people willing to «wash everything by hand and spoon - feed them.&raquIn reality, people in modern Western nations are cared for on a scale impossible to imagine for anyone in the Middle Ages, and while that world was populated with the damaged and disfigured, as is many a Third World city today, it's foolish to imagine that they were cared for by noble people willing to «wash everything by hand and spoon - feed them.&raquin modern Western nations are cared for on a scale impossible to imagine for anyone in the Middle Ages, and while that world was populated with the damaged and disfigured, as is many a Third World city today, it's foolish to imagine that they were cared for by noble people willing to «wash everything by hand and spoon - feed them.&raquin the Middle Ages, and while that world was populated with the damaged and disfigured, as is many a Third World city today, it's foolish to imagine that they were cared for by noble people willing to «wash everything by hand and spoon - feed them.»

With atomic and hydrogen bombs now stock - piled by both the United States and Russia in sufficient quantity and potency to destroy all human life upon the planet and with guided missiles to deliver them quickly to their targets, the annihilation not only of great cities but of entire nations in a matter of minutes has now become a staggering possibility.

Prophecies made by Ezekiel against the city of Tyre start in 26:3... God would move «many nations» (Ezekiel 26:3 - 4) to invade Tyre beginning with Nebuchadnezzar, followed by successive attacks pictured by wave upon wave.

Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.

Howard Sprague, 55, of Mason City, Iowa and Boca Raton, Fla. won the men's 55 senior tennis title in the Cape Coral Junior Veterans and Seniors Invitational by defeating Jack Staton, the nation's leading 60 - and - over tennis player, 6 - 3, 6 - 2.

England as a nation don't produce players of good quality, no matter who they picked they don't have the class to win tournaments anyway and it's no wonder English players are not wanted by Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich heck even in the big EPL clubs like Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea they aren't starters but just there for quota requirements

Midfielder Marcus Edwards, currently on loan at Norwich City, will join up with England Under - 20s for a trip to Poland on Thursday 22 March followed by a home match against Portugal in Manchester on Tuesday 27 March, while centre - back Japhet Tanganga is set to be with England Under - 19s for a trio of European Championship elite round qualifiers in Macedonia against Hungary (21 March), Latvia (24 March) and the host nation (27 March).

On a day that saw Wales» rugby team seal a Six Nations Grand Slam, Brendan Rodgers's side — off the back of a shock 1 - 0 win at home to Manchester City — were barely threatened by the Whites, whose individual errors Sigurdsson exploited to take his tally to five goals in eight matches since joining on loan from Hoffenheim.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, the 28 - year - old son of an addict who abandoned his family, wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police.

By restoring state revenue sharing to former levels to pay for unfunded state mandates, which are driving many cities, towns, and counties toward bankruptcy, New York's local governments could fully fund their services and still cut their highest - in - the - nation property taxes.

«New York has repeatedly stood in the way, whether by over-regulation or outright banning, of professional services that are legal and available in most states and cities across the nation.

BY ANDY HUMM Members of Queer Nation, which has led the charge among New Yorkers pressuring Russia to repeal its notorious anti-gay laws, are calling on city and state officials to pull their investments in Russia as bad both morally and financially.

The lead story by The Nation's editors describes the heightened income polarization in New York City and cites data from various FPI analyses, including Pulling apart: The continuing impact of income polarization in New York State.

-- New York City poised to join Airbnb crackdown effort backed by hotels, unions, by POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg: New York's City Council is plotting a crackdown on Airbnb, the largest home - sharing platform in the world, as the hotel industry and its unionized workers push lawmakers in some of the nation's biggest cities to blunt the $ 30 billion company's growth.

Would we as a nation stand by, nodding in agreement, as we refused to allow a Catholic Church to be built near the Murrah Federal Building site in Oklahoma City, because Tim McVeigh was raised Catholic?

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The New York Crossings Project will lead the nation by encompassing all MTA - operated bridges and tunnels in New York City, plus the George Washington Bridge.

By the measure of shootings, Buffalo is among the most violent cities in the nation, and the ones who are sinking beneath that weight are our children.

Signed into law by Mayor Robert Wagner on April 19, 1965, the New York City Landmarks Law is among the strongest in the nation and continues to serve as a model for cities and towns throughout the United States and around the world.

BY KATHLEEN WARNOCK In its 19th year, St. Pat's for All continued to roll along, surrounded by a city, state, and nation that have seen many changes since it began — some of them hastened by the event itselBY KATHLEEN WARNOCK In its 19th year, St. Pat's for All continued to roll along, surrounded by a city, state, and nation that have seen many changes since it began — some of them hastened by the event itselby a city, state, and nation that have seen many changes since it began — some of them hastened by the event itselby the event itself.

An investigative report released by Reuters News shows the City of Buffalo to be one of the most at - risk cities in the nation for child exposure to lead.

Roughly 5,000 apartments become available each year inside developments run by the New York City Housing Authority, the largest public housing agency in the nation.

But the role of religion in the Jewish mayor's life has been marked mostly by detachment during his nearly nine years as chief executive of the nation's most populous city.

In a speech last night, Glasgow City Council leader, councillor Gordon Matheson claimed moves to empower cities were being hampered by the SNP's «centralising and nation - building» policies.

For the first time in its history, Rochester does not rank among the 100 largest cities in the nation, according to new population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

His keen business acumen, honed by years in the private sector and creating one of the most successful financial companies in our nation's history, has kept us ahead of other cities (and even states like California) and helped New York avoid mass layoffs, middle class flight and, most important, civic despair.

Los Angeles, the nation's second - largest city, voted to increase its minimum wage to $ 15 an hour by 2020, in what is perhaps the most significant victory so far in the national push to raise the minimum wage.

A fairly recent academic treatment of the topic can be found in the 2017 book, The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City - States and Nation - States by Ronald M. Glassman.

As the Trump Administration looks to roll back protections for transgender Americans, one city hospital is planning for the community's future healthcare needs — by being the first in the nation to launch a program training the next generation of transgender doctors.

So while tens of thousands of New Yorkers go to their cabinets tonight looking for food to put on the table for their kids, and while tens of thousands of senior citizens by pass dinner tonight so that they may have enough left from their social security checks to pay for the December heating bill, our esteemed legislators, who least we forget have been awarded the distinction of being the most dysfunctional legislative body in the nation, feast and toast themselves in the capital city's Crown Plaza.

Due to agreement with the state's Indian nations, and enabling language approved by the Assembly and Senate last year, the casinos in the first phase of construction will be limited to areas north of the New York City area: The Capital Region, the Southern Tier and the Catskills.

The daily bomb blasts in our cities between 2012 and 2015 including the deadly attack on the United Nations office in Abuja have been forgotten by many.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio's rezoning proposals were easily passed by two City Council committees Thursday — but not before some lawmakers expressed concerns that one of the plans will keep New York City one of the most segregated cities in the nation.