Sentences with phrase «few cities in the nation»

San Diego is one of the few cities in the nation that has a designated investigative unit for humane law enforcement; most cities rely mainly on Animal Control organizations alone to respond to domestic animal and wildlife issues.

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You have the thousands of children in Egypt with the plagues, then there's the slaughter of 36 children because a few of them teased a bald man, you have repeated genocides of nations and cities for just existing.

The bulk of bias crimes committed over the past few months have targeted Jewish individuals and institutions, but the city, state and nation have also witnessed an uptick in hate incidents directed at people of the Islamic faith.

We're fierce in our causes and passionate about our sports (many of us still mourn the loss of our Whalers), we're one of the smartest cities in the nation, and we enjoy all the benefits of city life with very few of the pitfalls.

Where once it was unsafe to roam outside of a few limited commercial and government sections, today the District of Columbia is one of the most desirable cities in the nation to live and work, drawing diverse communities of people fighting over real estate, office space and schools.

Consider that in the nation's largest cities, where well over 80 percent of charter - school students are black or Latino, fewer than 33 percent of teachers are black or Latino, and fewer than 10 percent of charter schools are founded and led by blacks or Latinos.

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

Scores for most districts were higher than in 2003, but few make gains since 2007 see summary table for Nations largest city school districts.

Never mind staggering levels of unemployment in the inner cities or a system in which more and more of the nation's wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands; just place the blame on individuals whose characters are deficient.

On May 1, 2017, Rondure Global Advisors, headquartered in Salt Lake City and one of the nation's few woman - owned fund advisers, launched Rondure New World Fund (RNWIX / RNWOX) and Rondure Overseas Fund (ROSIX / ROSOX).

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.

The program has works in hundreds of cities across the country: Waco, TX; Jacksonville, FL; Indianapolis, IN; San Antonio, TX; Huntsville, AL to name a few... Did you know that San Antonio was number one in the entire nation for killing animals in their shelters just a few years agin hundreds of cities across the country: Waco, TX; Jacksonville, FL; Indianapolis, IN; San Antonio, TX; Huntsville, AL to name a few... Did you know that San Antonio was number one in the entire nation for killing animals in their shelters just a few years agIN; San Antonio, TX; Huntsville, AL to name a few... Did you know that San Antonio was number one in the entire nation for killing animals in their shelters just a few years agin the entire nation for killing animals in their shelters just a few years agin their shelters just a few years ago?

Situated just a few blocks away from Washington, D.C.'s lively Dupont Circle in the northwestern quadrant of the city, the Hotel Palomar DC, a Kimpton Hotel, certainly has a prime location in our nation's capital.

Opened in May to local huzzahs, if low global coverage, the $ 305m (# 236m) addition gives a city of fewer than a million people the nation's largest collection of contemporary art, more exhibition space than Manhattan's current MoMA, and more dedicated walls for photography than the Getty.

In considering what fast - urbanizing nations can do to make sure the expansion of cities comes with the fewest social and environmental regrets, it's important not to get too focused on megacities.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

Most of the Nation Less Than Three Feet Above Sea Level To put all of this in perspective, Tuvalu has a population of about 12,000 people (only Vatican City and Nauru have fewer people) and has a total land mass of just 10 square miles in size, spread out over several islands.

In fact, in 2007, of the approximately 51,422 manufacturers in the United States employing fewer than 20 people, over a third were located in the nation's 10 largest cities alonIn fact, in 2007, of the approximately 51,422 manufacturers in the United States employing fewer than 20 people, over a third were located in the nation's 10 largest cities alonin 2007, of the approximately 51,422 manufacturers in the United States employing fewer than 20 people, over a third were located in the nation's 10 largest cities alonin the United States employing fewer than 20 people, over a third were located in the nation's 10 largest cities alonin the nation's 10 largest cities alone.

Salt Lake City is rapidly on its way to becoming one of the nation's hottest real estate markets, with prices following a very similar growth pattern to that witnessed in Denver over the past few years.