Sentences with phrase «example to other cities»

That's why it's too bad the measure was voted down: it would have set a great example to other cities that cars don't have to dominate the roads.

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HowStuffWorks is located in the reimagined Ponce City Market in Downtown Atlanta giving them great proximity to other companies of importance (Google, Spotify and Instacart, for example, are among some of the well known companies that have offices here.)

Dunkin' Donuts expanded pretty quickly with six stores in five years, and Rosenberg started to offer franchises in other cities, following the example of restaurateur Howard Johnson.

Both metropolitan areas have said, for example, that short term rentals procured through Airbnb and VRBO are essentially against the law, as they cheat cities out of millions of dollars of tax revenues, but also because they aren't regulated the way hotels are, and could be fire traps or have other safety considerations about which hapless customers are not likely to be aware.

It is clear that it is not easy to rebuild an entire country and turn it into the new city of cyber punk technologies, but the initiative seems to be sustained by a series of circumstances that lay the foundations for the construction of something that could be at least an example for other countries that are willing to progress and attract private investment.

As the Middle East begins looking toward a post-oil economy, Dubai's success provides an obvious example for other cities in the region to mimic.

On the other hand, metros with the smallest decreases in homeownership rate tended to have rising wages and affordable housing (Omaha, Oklahoma City, and Pittsburgh being good examples).

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

Jesus gave us a clear picture of what that was all about as did others say Peter for example 2 Peter 2:4 - 6: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly;

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

The session on «hospitality,» for example, enables students to welcome each other in all their diversity, as well as to reflect on the ways in which hospitality is and is not present within Candler, Emory University and the city of Atlanta.

They make money by giving each other jobs — I've been to Houston for example, and they should have NO more poor in that city... ONE church has a budget of millions and there are dozens of mega churches in the Houston area.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

As long as other teams stay as inconsistent as ourselves, we'll have a slight chance, but if Man City for example go on good run, we won't be able to keep up.

Might want to follow the example of his mate Jadon Sancho who started for the first time for Dortmund the other day, having left Man City as he could see no future there.

Man City are the obvious example, with six or seven genuine game - changers consistently available, but Chelsea also have multiple clutch players of the highest quality, Arsenal have the best in the business in Alexis Sanchez amongst others, Spurs have three of the highest quality clutch players in the league starting week in week out and even Man United can call upon Fellaini to make a difference, albeit in a different way.

«I hope that they will encourage other cities to follow this example.»

On Tuesday, Grace pointed to several other affordable housing projects that did receive HDC financing as examples of the city's efforts to create more homes for low - income New Yorkers.

«If you can point to me in terms of specific examples here in the city of New York or others where people have voted illegally even if there is any example of it, it would probably be minuscule, it would probably be just [be] a blip on the radar.»

For example, we increased funding to the Food Bank of WNY, the Buffalo City Mission, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, and a number of other agencies.

De Blasio cited other examples of what he perceived as revenge, including inconveniently timed pressure from the state for the city to increase transit funding and a fight over money for public housing.

The Albright Knox is just one example of the abundance of riches we have in Erie County including: nationally renowned museums; an amazing philharmonic orchestra; landmarks from architectural giants; and, a thriving theater scene other cities would love to have.

For now, the problem is confined to a small area, but other city officials — including in Hallandale Beach — are looking to the neighborhood as an example of what could become a common, and very expensive, scenario across south Florida.

Few tourists travel explicitly to see a city's or country's mode of transportation, but I dare say that besides transport nerds such as myself, there are examples which qualify as must - see, including Japan's Shinkansen high - speed train, Lisbon's old tram system, and the streetcars of New Orleans, among others.

It's unclear if the utility would have made the same investment without the legislative requirement, but Burns cites other commitments: The city of Burlington has vowed to go zero - emissions, for example.

For example, research in Los Angeles is showing that small methane leaks in homes between the gas meter and heaters and stoves could be leading to higher atmospheric methane concentrations there, he said, whereas other cities may have old, leaking gas pipes.

For example, time will be available to visit local cities like Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City, or other places in the mid-Atlantic region.

From a psychological standpoint, she indicates that many people will experience love at first sight when they're going through other big changes in life, for example moving city or country (as someone might be more likely to do in their unsettled 20s).

For example, the women that you are going to find in Kiev and other cities are more open to flirtation, more welcoming to strangers, more open to advances and have more urban fashion sense.

There are 0 ways to tell if someone are real or not real, and if you are wasting your money or not... MY best advice avoid dating agencys that have ukraine / russian girls, and use the dating app named Tinder instead... pay a little membership and select your city is example kiev / odessa / kharkov / moscow and then see who like you... when two people like each other they can chat and arrange a meeting... and actual i will be going to kiev in september and have 6 girls so far..

Montreal is like a city from a fairy book — it certainly feels nothing like other cities in the country (compare it with the likes of Toronto, for example) and this is in large part due to its history.

For example, a sophisticated Sugar Baby might identify as living in New York City for simplicity, but could, also, use, Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and numerous other areas instead to specify a more specific area of the NYC metro area.

The bombing that decimated Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building may be more than 20 years in the past, but with 168 dead, including 19 children, it remains the deadliest example of home - grown terrorism, a somber reminder of the kind of damage that enraged Americans are capable of doing to each other.

A meta - exercise taken to plucky, insouciant excess, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is nihilistic, misanthropic, and it just might hate its audience a little, but damn if it doesn't wash out as something as exhilaratingly lawless as Sin City and recklessly experimental as Rian Johnson's Brick (two other examples of noir's recent extreme makeover).

It also raises an interesting question as to how one might assess the roles of producer directors like George Miller in Sydney or Peter Jackson in Wellington, both cities being candidates for other examples of a Local Hollywood.

It included how well the schools work with other city agencies (to get sidewalks plowed in the winter, for example), how many and which colleges new teachers come from (the wider the net, the better), how quickly managers return phone calls, and whether teacher absenteeism is down.

The ability to teach this by practical example and participation, and in the grounds of their own school, solves a major problem for teaching staff who are unlikely to have either the time or the staff resource to regularly take classes out to city farms or other suitable venues.

Among other reforms encouraged by Race to the Top, Washington, D.C., adopted a new teacher contract that raised salaries across the board while adding performance pay, and New York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examples.

Imagine if we talked with the same conviction about stories like Montgomery County ~ Maryland or other districts like Union City ~ New Jersey ~ Cincinnati ~ Ohio or Springfield ~ Massachusetts - examples where professionals collaborated at the local level to raise the achievement scores and performance of all students as market - oriented reformers do about their success stories.

In the pilot program in Tajikistan, for example, every other week the program director, Anora Rahim, takes new materials from Khujand — the second largest city in the country — to Isfara, a small town roughly 120 kilometers away, or 2.5 hours by bus.

For example, AltSchool is a micro-school network in San Francisco with tuition that is 10 to 15 percent cheaper than the average for other private schools in the city --- and it hopes to scale its model such that the price falls over time to the point that it is only marginally more than the cost of educating a public school student.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agendTo argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agendto ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agendto work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agendto which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

The examples of mayors Richard Daley in Chicago and Michael Bloomberg in New York City» both of whom sought and won direct control over their city's school systems — have inspired other mayors, such as Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C., to press for the power to appoint the school board's members or dissolve the board altogetCity» both of whom sought and won direct control over their city's school systems — have inspired other mayors, such as Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C., to press for the power to appoint the school board's members or dissolve the board altogetcity's school systems — have inspired other mayors, such as Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C., to press for the power to appoint the school board's members or dissolve the board altogether.

If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston.

New York State, for example, is having trouble implementing its new teacher evaluation regime because New York City, Buffalo, and other districts can't reach agreement with AFT affiliates opposed to using student test score growth data in performance management.

Also, this report will examine the racial demographics in Sacramento public schools and the surrounding county in context with other cities to show how its diversity in neighborhoods is carrying over to the schools and how Sacramento can be an example.

So, for example, Chicago International Charter School (CICS), which has ballooned to 16 schools serving nearly 10,000 students, looked pretty good on the annual state report cards until this year, when it became clear that CICS schools reported some of the lowest state scores in the city (Hawkins, Bond, and and Ellison) along with more average results in other network schools.

For example, a Newton, Massachusetts - based author who reaches out to national TV shows and is lucky enough to get an invitation to appear on, say, «Good Morning America,» should still pitch local media outlets (the «Newton Tab,» which is a community newspaper with a Newton, Massachusetts readership, for example), local radio stations (in this case, WNTN which is based in Newton), and the community newspapers and radio stations in surrounding cities and towns (such as, in this example, Arlington, Cambridge, Concord, Lexington, Weston, and others).

For example, if you must sell your home quickly because your company has moved you to another city or because other debts are going unpaid and you need money now, you may wind up accepting an offer that is not in your best economic interest.

Compare just about any other city to Toronto and Vancouver, for example.