Sentences with phrase «first city in the world»

The first city in the world to go meat - free one day a week is seeing its Meat Free Thursdays go from strength to strength.

Now it wants to be the first city in the world with no new infections, no stigma, and no death.

The Slovenian capital among the first cities in the world to start using electronic paper technology to display passenger information.

Established during the 16th century on Inca ruins, Quito became the first city in the world to be declared by UNESCO a cultural heritage for the humanity in 1978.

Last year, Taiyuan, in Northern China's Shanxi province, became one of the first cities in the world to replace its entire taxi fleet with electric vehicles.

Western Australia's capital of Perth is said to be on the coalface of global climate change, with 2007 Australian of the Year and Climate Change Commission chairman Tim Flannery predicting in 2004 that it may become the first city in the world to become a ghost metropolis due to lack of water (BBC, Sydney Morning Herald).

Calling it «one of the first cities in the world to introduce congestion pricing» is true but misleading.

Did you know that Tel Aviv was the first city in the world where builders lifted an entire house (now Sotheby's auction house) on Shadal Street, and suspended it, while they dug out underground parking lots as part of a development deal to preserve an historical building in exchange for development rights?

Also known as the «City of Light,» due to being one of the first cities in the world with electric streetlights, Buffalo is known for its cold weather and industrial history.

Slovenia's fourth largest municipality, Kranj, will soon become the first city in the world to boast a monument dedicated to the famous cryptocurrency.

Not exact matches

Calls to cut regulation and red tape are often the first item of business for those promoting developments in the world's major cities, but not Perth's Adrian Fini, who sees things very differently.

As part of its 7 Days of Genius Festival, a weeklong series of panel discussions and talks kicking off March 1, New York City's 92nd Street Y is launching its first Genius Startup Competition, a contest that's intended to unearth big ideas that can have a major impact in fields such as education, energy, sustainability, and other industries that are poised to address the world's most pressing problems.

The world's first virtual film festival launched a 10 - city North American tour in Portland, Ore., in August.

Tourist numbers to what is traditionally the most visited city in the world, fell 6.4 percent in the first half of 2016 as many Asians and Americans stayed away.

Sten + Lex's mural of Dr. Martin Luter King, Jr. in Old Fourth Ward, Atlanta was completed for the world's first and only all - female street art conference, «Living Walls: The City Speaks,» in 2012.

On Thursday in Salt Lake City, the Nikola Motor Company unveiled the Nikola One, the world's first hydrogen fuel - cell electric freight truck.

May accused Russia of the first known offensive use of a nerve toxin in Europe since World War Two after Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent, and his daughter were found unconscious in the city of Salisbury on March 4.

To lend an air of preeminence, the Nelsons started calling Sprinkles The World's First Cupcake Bakery, a statement that's technically true, but only if you disqualify the star of the seminal Sex and the City cupcake episode of 2000, Magnolia Bakery, and another landmark bakery called, as a matter of fact, Cupcake Café, because both make other baked goods in addition to cupcakes (as Sprinkles does not).

Recent new customers include United Nations International schools and 1 World Trade Center Observatory in New York City, its first corporate security customer.

His family first moved to the US when he was a year old, but they moved around the world a few more times before settling in Foster City, south of San Francisco.

The state is a historical icon, and honors its past through the preservation of Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in the New World, and Colonial Williamsburg's Revolutionary City.

Delphi Automotive (dlph) will launch a small test fleet of automated taxis in Singapore next year, aiming to ferry passengers around a city district in one of the first real - world tests of automated rides on demand, the company said on Monday.

Just as importantly, his work on the distribution of electricity led to the world's first power plant in New York City (though his technology choice, direct current (DC), was eventually surpassed by the alternating current approach (AC) championed by rival inventor, Nikola Tesla).

The second trendiest city — Portland, Oregon — scored particularly well on vegan friendly restaurant options with the third highest number in the study (18 per 100,000 people) and the world's first vegan mini-mall.

World leaders typically exchange gifts, and Trump and Abe did so when Abe rushed to New York City in November to become the first foreign leader to meet with Trump after the election.

The result of a partnership between HEC Montréal and the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, CDL - Montreal is the city's first world - class startup support program focused on capitalizing its expertise in AI.

What I did: I first identified my favorite places in the world to live: San Francisco, Honolulu, Paris, Amsterdam, New York City, and Lake Tahoe.

At the world's first Bitcoin conference in 2011, Morgen Peck saw one woman among the 50 people at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

In the first - ever comparison of flexible workspace in key cities around the world, data reveals the market has grown a massive 18 % in just 12 monthIn the first - ever comparison of flexible workspace in key cities around the world, data reveals the market has grown a massive 18 % in just 12 monthin key cities around the world, data reveals the market has grown a massive 18 % in just 12 monthin just 12 months.

A few days ago, The Instant Group released a first - of - its - kind report, comparing the coworking and serviced office marked across key cities in the world.

Panama's cosmopolitan capital, Panama City, is the only true First World city in Central AmerCity, is the only true First World city in Central Amercity in Central America.

The largest project of its kind in the world, it established pilots in five Canadian cities (Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Moncton) in 2009 to examine outcomes of the Housing First approach.

The 25 Fund allows us to bring religious scholars from around the world to join First Things» ongoing scholarly colloquia, as well as to host seminars in major global cities outside of the United States on topics of international importance.

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

Damascus, a great trading center on the western border of the Fertile Crescent, is a very ancient city — perhaps the oldest anywhere in the world which still exists — while Antioch is famous for the fact that here the followers of Christ were first called Christians.

By the first World Mission Conference of the CWME in 1963 in Mexico City, «Witness» became the catchword of the meeting and unquestionably the most dominant concept to understanding Christian mission.

Just before landing in the New World in 1630, John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, delivered a sermon describing what he and his fellow Puritans intended to found: «a city upon a hill.»

At the first Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) meeting in Mexico City in 1963, «mission in six continents» became «the leit - motiv.»

It was the first Christian city in the world, Christianity having been brought there by Addai, a disciple of St. Thomas.

The Renaissance was the expression of the spirit of the lay world which, in the towns and cities, had first emerged as a new and partly foreign element in the structure of medieval Christian society.

«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades of incest... am I getting this?»

In his book The Nature Principle, Richard Louv says for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, rather than rural environmentIn his book The Nature Principle, Richard Louv says for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, rather than rural environmentin history, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, rather than rural environmentin cities, rather than rural environments.

Los Angeles is considered by some to be the first Third World city in the Western World.

The first - time visitor to Rome is drawn inexorably to St. Peter's basilica, the most famous church in the world, at the heart of Vatican City.

Two of the largest wine and food festivals in the United States are spicing things up this year by revitalizing fan - favorite events and hosting new ones that are sure to entice both regular and first - time attendees.The South Beach and New York City Wine and Food Festivals are four - day star - studded gatherings that showcase the talents of the world's most renowned wine and spirits producers, chefs and culinary personalities while raising money for education and to help fight hunger.

If approved, Toronto would be the first major city in the world to switch completely to compostable coffee pods, a move seen by many waste management experts as a progressive act towards single serve waste reduction.

This year's event was co-sponsored by BevForce / FoodForce, the only hiring strategy agency specializing in staffing for the beverage industry, Giannuzzi Group LLP, a boutique New York City - based law firm with significant experience in consumer brands, and City Harvest, the world's first food rescue organization, which rescues food for the nearly two million New Yorkers facing hunger each year.

We feature Tiny Footprints, the world's first carbon negative coffee - so our neighbors can have access to the best coffee in the city.

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The GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title attempt was the culmination of a three - day celebration in the brand's hometown of Austin, Texas to mark the 46th birthday and the first official «Schlotzsky's Day,» proclaimed by the City of Austin on October 6.