Sentences with phrase «city ruins of»

Away from Kas, inquisitive visitors of all ages will be mesmerised by the undersea ancient city ruins of Simena.

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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.

By the fall of 1929, the stock market peaked and then plunged, financially - ruining many stock investors (some of whom jumped out of tall city buildings to their deaths).

I urge Chilliwack City Council to take this unique opportunity — a window — to prevent the unthinkable possibility of having a pipeline leak ruin our community.

3) The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11) The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55) 4) The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23) Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance.

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

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

It turned out to be essentially a continuation of what had already been revealed — a plea for prayer and penance, but with an added series of images: a ruined city, a rugged Cross, a Pope shot at with arrows, bishops, clergy and faithful people martyred.

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.

Trouble and weeping and fear and ruin come when the people forget the promises of God that bind us inextricably to each other — the hungry to the overfed, the city to the suburb, the innocent to the cynical, the triumphant to the brokenhearted.

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»?

When insurgents overran Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, few Western onlookers would have been aware that it stands on the ruins of Nineveh, the destination of the Bible's most unwilling prophet, Jonah.

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.

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.

The Twin Towers once stood proudly over the city; their remains» sixteen acres of ruins, a hole six stories deep looms just as large.

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.

15 That day will be a day of wrath — a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness — 16 a day of trumpet and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the corner towers.

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.

I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins, 26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?

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

To support an urban style of Christian life against the rural romantic piety of most American Protestantism is not to defend the crime - ridden, auto - infested ruins we have heaped up where cities once stood.

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.

Our boys started the match well, pressing forward and causing City problems at the back, but Bernardo Silva ruined all of that on minute 15 by scoring with a sublime curling shot from outside the area.

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

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..

If you subscribe to the belief that some of the Premier League's super-rich owners have ruined the purity of football, you probably also hate England's two worst offenders — Chelsea and Man City.

Guardiola ruined that heynces side that won the treble, they played some of the best football I've seen and pep ruined it with his tiki taka, won't be long before he's exposed at city for the fraud he is.

Sterling, formerly of Liverpool, may now be teasing at ruining his old club's transfer plans, with fans certainly keen for him to persuade Bailey to join City instead after tweeting a picture of himself and the 20 - year - old hanging out.

Dynamo: Defending the Honour of Kiev Formed from the ruins of Dynamo Kiev following the occupation of the Nazis during World War Two, FC Start came to represent the hopes and future of a city occupied by a brutal regime.

From perennial relegation candidates teetering on the brink of financial ruin to a powerhouse of European football, Manchester City's ascent has been the product of Middle Eastern money and unmatched ambition from Sheikh Mansour.

While not known for lightning pace or formidable aerial ability, Holt is a nuisance and his performance against City's rivals was reminiscent of a vaguely similar striker that ruined Norwich's return to the second tier on the opening evening of the season.

Reaction: De Bruyne is my Man City blueprint — Guardiola (Premier League) Report: De Bruyne makes it sweet 16 for awesome Man City (Premier League) Report: Otamendi wins derby to fire Man City 11 points clear (Premier League) Reaction: Klopp calls for Liverpool focus after Euro spree (Champions League) Report: «Fab Four» fire seven - goal Liverpool into last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: Mourinho pledges only «the truth» on injuries (Champions League) Report: Lukaku and Rashford send Man United into last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: Mourinho wants new shooting boots for Lukaku (Premier League) Report: Old boy Young downs Watford to lift Man United (Premier League) Reaction: Klopp looks on bright side after Chelsea draw (Premier League) Report: Willian denies Liverpool morale - boosting win (Premier League) Reaction: Guardiola targets Champions League milestone (Champions League) Report: Sterling strikes late to earn Man City top spot (Champions League) Report: Young England stifle Neymar's Brazil (friendly) Reaction: Loftus - Cheek showed he can cut it — Southgate (friendly) Report: New boys impress as England hold Germany (friendly) Reaction: Mourinho defends lack of Lukaku charity (Champions League) Report: Hapless Svilar helps Man Utd to brink of last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: «Stand up and be counted», Klopp tells Liverpool (Premier League) Report: Spurs» Kane rips sorry Liverpool to shreds (Premier League) Reaction: Guardiola proud to beat «best opponents» Napoli (Champions League) Report: Jesus earns Man City narrow win over Napoli (Champions League) Reaction: Mourinho and Klopp at odds over Anfield stalemate (Premier League) Report: Man Utd held at Liverpool as Mourinho parks the bus (Premier League) Report: McClean breaks Welsh hearts as Ireland reach play - offs (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Southgate admits England have long way to go (2018 World Cup) Report: Kane sends lacklustre England to World Cup (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Man City's show of force thrills Guardiola (Champions League) Report: Chelsea old boy De Bruyne gives Man City crucial win (Champions League) Reaction: «Amazing» Lukaku won't lose focus — Mourinho (Champions League) Report: Lukaku and Martial lead Man United in CSKA rout (Champions League) Reaction: Klopp says Liverpool on track despite stalemate (Champions League) Report: Coutinho scores as Liverpool held in Moscow (Champions League) Reaction: Man United part of «second level», says Mourinho (Champions League) Report: Fix - it Fellaini gets Man United off the mark (Champions League) Reaction: De Bruyne masterclass leaves Guardiola purring (Premier League) Report: Mané sent off as five - star Man City crush Liverpool (Premier League) Reaction: Alli gesture takes shine off England win (2018 World Cup) Report: Rashford redemption sends England closer to Russia (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Klopp hopes Euro progress yields transfer lift (Champions League) Report: Can brace gets Liverpool back into big time (Champions League) Report: Sterling rescue act spares 10 - man Man City (Premier League) Reaction: Conte happy for Chelsea to play the hunters (Premier League) Report: Alonso ruins Spurs» Wembley house - warming (Premier League) Report: Lukaku double fires Man United to winning start (Premier League) Reaction: Wenger lauds Giroud after Arsenal edge Leicester (Premier League) Report: Giroud earns Arsenal madcap opening win (Premier League) Reaction: Wenger fearful of another slow Arsenal start (Community Shield) Report: Courtois and Morata gift Arsenal victory at Wembley (Community Shield)

New York City cabbies are being driven to the edge of financial ruin and despair as ride - hail apps like Uber and Lyft continue to take their customers, with one driver's take - home pay falling from $ 50,000 a year to some $ 17,000.

A 61 - year - old cab driver posted on Facebook early today that city and state politicians were to blame for his financial ruin — then pulled up to the gates of City Hall and shot himself dead with a shotgun, authorities scity and state politicians were to blame for his financial ruin — then pulled up to the gates of City Hall and shot himself dead with a shotgun, authorities sCity Hall and shot himself dead with a shotgun, authorities said.

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.

But late last week, local people near the ornate ruins about 110 kilometers southwest of the Iraqi city of Mosul heard massive explosions that likely marked the demise of the 2000 - year - old city and its spectacular, well - preserved sculptures and stone architecture.

AUSTIN — If you walked the cobblestone streets and bustling markets of 16th and 17th century Mexico City, you would see people born all over the world: Spanish settlers on their way to mass at the cathedral built atop Aztec ruins.