Sentences with phrase «for centuries it housed»

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Many of the structures and institutions he helped pioneer more than a century ago — in - house sales teams; geographic sales territories; sales conferences; quotas; training academies — we now take for granted.

«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.

Born to London coffee - house proprietor Thomas Jemson in 1734, Lloyd's List was, for centuries, a leading shipping newspaper.

At the daily White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee - Sanders tells reporters that President Trump spoke with Rupert Murdoch about the deal for Disney to acquire Twenty - First Century Fox assets.

«Affordable housing has been quite a serious problem for us,» says Philip Souza, owner of Century 21 Smith / Ring Inc. «The people who don't earn as much have a difficult time remaining close to work.»

The diamond industry is dominated by very profitable houses like Cartier, the jeweler to the kings for centuries.

For over a century, the Illinois - based company has created some of our most ubiquitous pantry items, including Kraft Dinner macaroni, Maxwell House coffee, Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers.

Aggregate housing affordability measure for Toronto hit its most stressed level in a quarter century

After traveling around Europe, overseeing the restoration of a ramshackle 19th - century country house in Burgundy, and simply enjoying life for a while, she began freelancing for various magazines and websites, including International Living, Forbes.com, Bankrate.com, and many others.

Not only did it traditionally mark a financial milestone for many families, it was considered a sound economic decision, as housing prices have consistently increased at a slow - but - steady pace over the last century.

The house of cards, as delicate as it was, stood its ground for almost two centuries before it crashed.

What might this garden - planting and house - building look like for the transient people of the 21st century?

The president's 325 commutations for the month of August is the largest number ever granted by a president in a month, and in a year within the past century, according to the White House.

Factor in his pleas for just and moral laws or access to decent, affordable housing and guaranteed livable wages a half a century ago.

For example, he takes one on a tour of the baptistery in the early - third century house church of Dura Europos (Ferguson, Baptism 440 - 443).

To side with Galloway and Stephens, therefore, is to determine that members of the House and Senate have been violating the constitution for over two centuries.

For example, at the beginning of the 20th century we in New Zealand commonly left our houses unlocked, for there was no fear of burglaFor example, at the beginning of the 20th century we in New Zealand commonly left our houses unlocked, for there was no fear of burglafor there was no fear of burglary.

From the Puritans to the Projects is a compelling history of the treatment in Boston of «public neighbors» — needy people unable to provide fully for themselves — from the early 17th century to the present, focused on the construction and management of public housing in that city since the mid-1930s.

He observes in Madness and Civilization that medieval society, except for its treatment of lepers (and religious minorities), tended, less than ours, to incarcerate its own members for deviancy But by the 17th and 18th centuries, society imprisoned the idle, the poor, the insane and the criminal without distinction in the former houses of leprosy.

This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

Timothy Smith's book Revivalism and Social Reform in MidNineteenth Century America, for example, argues persuasively that nineteenth - century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially Century America, for example, argues persuasively that nineteenth - century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially active.

For the first time in over a century, the pope is going to eschew convention and ditch his elaborate digs at the apostolic palace for the quiet of the Vatican's guest houFor the first time in over a century, the pope is going to eschew convention and ditch his elaborate digs at the apostolic palace for the quiet of the Vatican's guest houfor the quiet of the Vatican's guest house.

Scholars said this could be an important contribution to understanding the ninth century B.C., a dark age in biblical history, and also is strong independent evidence for the existence and influence of the House of David.

Not for several centuries was a plan devised for cooperation among the several houses.

Kind of makes up for all the centuries when Muslims didn't allow Jews or Christians to build their own houses of worship.

For several centuries house churches served as the locus for small groups of Christians to pray, hear Scripture, sing praise, eat meals, celebrate the Eucharist and share offerings with the poFor several centuries house churches served as the locus for small groups of Christians to pray, hear Scripture, sing praise, eat meals, celebrate the Eucharist and share offerings with the pofor small groups of Christians to pray, hear Scripture, sing praise, eat meals, celebrate the Eucharist and share offerings with the poor.

Since Sikhs have served America as doctors, lawyers and teachers for more than a century, any attack on their house of worship should be considered an attack on all houses of worship.

Although Milton had made a personal visit to Galileo during the latter's house - arrest and for obvious reasons deplored the verdict of the Inquisition against Galileo's heliocentrism, debate in the seventeenth century was still raging among astronomers as to which system was right, the Copernican or the Ptolemaic.

Renowned restaurants such as Tre Panoce, known for its gorgeous grounds and interiors that double as a villa and a dreamy destination for weddings, is housed on a hilltop in a 17th century convent that overlooks the Veneto plain.

No stone was left unrepaired, from the dairy barn to the carriage house; even the century - old apple tree out back was preserved, which has been standing there for 100 years.

As the company enters its second half - century, Huddle House continues to look for ways it can improve its service and open up new opportunities for expansion across the country.

In the 17th century, best Kona coffee type - houses appeared for the first time in Europe outside the Ottoman Empire, and houses were established and quickly the best Kona coffee became popular.

All the old wooden tables were worn wavy with countless cuts, as wavy as the old 18th century kitchen floor tiles brought for this house from Indonesia.

MIAMI (July 6, 2015)-- Mandarine Napoléon, the 19th century citrus liqueur created for Napoléon Bonaparte, will conquer the streets of New Orleans during Tales of the Cocktail 2015 with two not - to - be-missed events at the Napoleon House.

This house in picturesque Catskill, NY was originally part of a girls» camp that was active for a good chunk of the 20th century.

Dean Carlson's vision for the Farm Market, housed in a historic 18th - century barn, allows visitors to peruse the bounty of the farm in an atmosphere that captures the charm of a time past.

The Neptune Pool is surrounded by an actual temple facade, massive semicircular marble colonnades from the third and fourth centuries A.D. Nearby is a pool house with 17 dressing rooms for Hearst's intimate little pool parties.

We came home hoping with the new century to start things with a freash slat only to find ourselves called slaveres when he Put A wagon Wheel in Cement in front of his fathers house and hes standing there with his coat and shirts off yelling at the crowd wasn't there any one there with the guts to whip the NI **** in front of the world to prove his place was at our feet or bleeding for his insolence.

The notion of a Mom happily taking care of the kids and house all day * by herself * is a nutty 20th Century notion that seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of making women feel guilty.

The house appears every now and then — it's been a long rescue project to turn it from a run down building with history (it was an ale house, a monkey lived here for a while and back in the 18th century it was a peruke makers) into a cosy family home for the six of us and it's still ongoing!

A 19th Century village complete with a log house, a fort, businesses, a firehouse, schoolhouse, meeting house, chapel and homes, the 13 - acre Naper Settlement site is the perfect setting for Civil War Days, which feature re-enactors from a variety of Midwestern «regiments,» from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

In part the act was intended as a remedy for the House of Commons» tendency in the late - nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries to amend church legislation with provisions that would have disestablished it.

Some great houses have been in the same family for centuries and masses of papers and records have accumulated in the library, bedrooms, stables and outhouses.

That will include investments in a new gathering space for community activities, additional housing and re-imagining the city's infrastructure for the 21st century.

Other important sources of revenue are an annual dinner with famous keynote speakers, collection of dues from sub-organizations of the local parties like precinct or house district organizations, contributions at summer picnics, a variety of fund raisers, and typically some sort of «club» of regular contributors (e.g. one local party I was involved with had a «century club» for people who gave at least $ 100 per year to the local party).

Background: Congressman Chris Gibson (NY - 19) announced the passage in the House yesterday of HR 2576, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, which modernizes the Toxic Substances Control Act to institute more rigorous oversight of thousands of chemicals that are used commercially.

Although the monarch had for centuries been empowered to create hereditary peers, with rights to sit in the House of Lords, the Life Peerages Act 1958 had a profound impact on the honours system and parliament.

During the period I was working on this book, British politics sometimes seemed to be tracking my early 19th century course, as topics like voting and the House of Lords regularly came up for discussion, to say nothing of popular demonstrations; parallels are, however, for the reader to draw.

A very long sitting With an unparalleled love of politics, Winston Churchill served for almost 64 years in the House of Commons, longer than any other 20th century MP.

He noted 48 Corliss Ave. was being turned into a nursing school for Binghamton University and the Century Sunrise factories were being converted to housing.