Sentences with phrase «city ruined in»

The reason they're fighting is a good one: Citing the mass destruction of New York City, Washington D.C., Sokovia (the fictional city ruined in the end of «Avengers: Age of Ultron»), and at the start of this film, Lagos, Nigeria, Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt) informs the Avengers that the governments of the world want supervision over the superheroes.

Pamukkale and Hierapolis ancient city ruins in the Denizli region of Turkey is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Not exact matches

Visitors will have access to the ancient ruins at Mada'in Saleh, a relic of the same ancient civilization that built the better - known city of Petra in Jordan and a UNESCO world heritage site.

The fires in California's Wine Country have left entire neighborhoods in cities like Santa Rosa in ruin.

And to make room for the building, Stalin further destroyed a city already in ruins.

-LSB-...] Trump has successfully ruined the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City three times.

Our holy city of Jerusalem was laid waste and the land of Israel was in ruins.

Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.»

Well, not surprisingly, in 1845, Sir Austen Henry Layard discovered the ruins of this city proving that it did exist.

Many of the exiles had settled down very comfortably and had no appetite for the difficulties of life in a ruined city and an impoverished and unfamiliar countryside.

I looked and the garden - land has become a desert and all its cities are in ruins.2

Once in New York City, when an old church building was being demolished to make way for a new one, a man riding past the ruined structure on a bus said to a friend, «This is the first time in years that I have seen the inside of a church.»

Is it really likely that when the Romans heard Paul's words about creation being «subjected to futility» in 8:20 they «could well have thought about how imperial ambitions, military conflicts, and economic exploitation had led to the erosion of the natural environment throughout the Mediterranean world, leaving ruined cities, depleted fields, deforested mountains, and polluted streams as evidence of this universal human vanity»?

In the ruins of a shrine excavated next to the gate of Lachish, the largest city of the kingdom of Judah after Jerusalem, archaeologists found an altar with the horns cut off from each corner.

Too many Christian women try to use the «submission» paradigm after their «city» is in ruins... this paradigm is for when the city is flourishing.

Hand - written on old - fashioned four-fold notepaper, it revealed an extraordinary vision that the children had seen, involving a «Bishop dressed in white» whom they took to be the Holy Father, who was shot and fell to the ground as he climbed over a ruined city filled with corpses.

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

Its cities lay in ruins, foreign armies divided and occupied its territories, millions of people were in flight and without shelter; the entire population faced starvation.

An Israeli boy enjoying a picnic with his family in mid-November at the ruins of the biblical city of Beit Shemesh found what appeared to be the small head of a statue and showed it to an Israeli tour guide.

Like the Roman Empire, the modern age will crumble from the crack of inordinate greatness beyond the interest of the many and the desire of the privileged few to sustain, and in the murky streets of ruined cities and meeting grounds of a billion humble habitations, our heroes and saints will show us how to begin history anew.

The exiled Hebrews, however, desired nothing quite so much as the rebuilding of that destroyed city and temple; their persistent ambition centered in the restoration of the very shrine whose ruin had done so much to refine and elevate their faith.

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.

«I have let you turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins...» But again we find the same lesson that this is not necessarily right in God's eyes.

Centered around Percy Fawcett, who traveled across South America as a cartographer in the early 20th Century, The Lost City of Z doesn't just follow an epic story of one man obsessed with discovering a mythic civilization that exists only in rumors and sparse ruins.

The ruined cities of North Africa, once flowing with olive oil and honey, lie stagnant in the sand.

They remember the shock with which the audience then heard this ever - surprising Christian thinker as he affirmed: «What the Germans, prostrate amid their ruined cities, now need most is not schoolmasters, such as we in Switzerland, from Zurich to Geneva, are quite ready to send them.

We are now paying the price of that blind and irresponsible folly — in a drug war that we are not winning, in burgeoning crime that has made city neighborhoods uninhabitable, in teenage pregnancies and «children having children,» in rampant abortions, swelling welfare roles, sexually transmitted diseases, self - indulgent neglect of community good, and countless ruined lives.

Samuel Noah Kramer, another great Sumerologist, calls her the epitome of liberated woman and, half in love with her himself, hopes that at life's end his ashes may be buried in the ruins of Uruk, Inanna's city.

Amazon threatens to ruin Christmas for Australian retailers by launching its long - awaited retail offer on Tuesday with one - day deliveries in most capital cities and 30 per cent discounts on big - brand toys and clothing.

I believe tgere are 3 titke contenders this year Leicester, city and arsenal About Leicester they are doing great but there football depends on counter attacking and few quick passes to reach the ball to mahrez or vardy i don't think they can impress anybody if they faced teams that park the bus like what the teams do with arsenal and also any injury for mahrez or vardy will ruin there season so i don't consider them a real challenge and in an open game we got the best out of them and beat them with 5 goals to 2 so calm down gooners About city they had very impressing start for the season then they were vety baf winning most games by pure luck or last minute goals and they could be beaten easily Arsenal are the best team form we controled most of the games and the losses and draws were by bad referee decisions or bad luck and the 4 points margain with city could have been easily 10 or 12

I am surprised more pranks like this haven't taken place in football, expect Man City fans to launch a similar surprise on their local rivals by all supporters texting their United fan friends by all texting at the exact same time to tell them that Ronaldo has been sold and then ruining all believability it all by suggesting he has signed for the Eastlands oufit!

with his attitude as if we have to be his servant, get back to Chilie and get those life values back, he is a football player, but a man first, and as a player and man, his all attitude sucks, i don't know why wenger kept him and take that shit, means we have to take it... I told yo before, get his ass on training camp, ruining all day, shut him up, keep him out of the squad, not even in bench to bring his laim superior attitude... All money he is making, he should think of Chilie street and reality for kids he was once... He is in a great city, a club that won in this league and would be in CL as every year without this type of laim ways... So, of course no one wants him around during that ceremony, not even in the room... Get real sanchez, you came from misery, benched for years by gardiola too, sell out, poor minded..

A disappointing career for one who looked top class in his early days, Craig Bellamy is another player who has his career ruined by personality difficulties, though he had his moments at Liverpool and Manchester City.

Roma, March 26, 2014 — The room is in Rome's city hall, located in a Renaissance palace that sits on ancient ruins and overlooks Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio.

Chelsea were seemingly on course to sign Roma defender Antonio Rudiger, but it's been claimed that Manchester City could swoop in and ruin their plans.

In short, City achieved something historic and admirable, but ruined everybody's day, including their own, in the procesIn short, City achieved something historic and admirable, but ruined everybody's day, including their own, in the procesin the process.

Some controversial behaviour conducted by Alli has ruined his chances at being quite as respected as he should be but putting two past Chelsea in Tottenham's incredible 3 - 1 should go a long way, and he's expected to be as important when Spurs face struggling Stoke City away from home this Saturday.

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During Spitzer's abortive 2013 run for New York City comptroller, Trump took to Twitter to call him «a horrible Governor and A.G. who ruined many good people and cost the Country billions of dollars in losses (and jobs).»

They are clearly the two most important political figures in New York City; to rank them ruins the suspense of the list.

From the brink of ruin, the mayor and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie prevailed on a reluctant Cuomo to broker an end - of - legislative - session deal to strengthen a property tax break program, called 421 - a, designed to spur badly needed housing development in New York City.

Rep. Peter King of Seaford, seen April 28, 2017, left, responded on Twitter to the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas where Jennifer Bryant, right, surveys the ruin inflicted on her family business in the city of Katy on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017.

«I worry about my grandkids, I worry about myself crossing the street, I worry about any spill, particularly with these garbage trucks from New York City and they spill and ruin this lake, it's one of the cleanest lakes in the United States,» Mary Torrisi said.

Carranza, 51, was not named as a defendant in the case, but the suit alleged he ruined the career of a female educator in San Francisco after she called him out for flirting with a female colleague while Carranza was the city's superintendent in 2013.

Then, in June 2011, City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin joined State Senator Liz Krueger and Assemblyman Micah Kellner in writing a letter to the SLA, claiming it was «ruining the quality of life of this terrific neighborhood» and asking that the agency revoke the club's liquor license.

«They look almost like ruins in the jungle, but they're actually fully functional, occupied cities.»

They focused on the Fertile Crescent between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris in Iraq, where lie the ruins of the ancient city - states of Assur, Babylon, Ur and Uruk.

The ruins of the ancient Roman cities Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the perfectly preserved shapes of inhabitants who perished in the ashes, offer an unequivocal expression of the destructive power of volcanic eruptions.

However, when the Jerusalem of Jesus's era was destroyed by the occupying Romans in 70 CE, it was deserted for 65 years, until the Roman Emperor Hadrian re-built a city (Aelia Capitolina) on the ruins in 135 CE.

Some have sat abandoned in cities like Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Yonkers, N.Y., for 20 years or more, their slow decay chronicled online by «ruin porn» photographers.