Sentences with phrase «for city folk»

It's much easier for city folk to get misty eyed about green spaces.

His humorous lecture painted a very real picture of just how difficult it was for the city folk of Portland to even find their way to the Cannon Beach area in the early twentieth century.

As Cathy explains in this Matador article, these towns have inspired poetry (Neruda — Isla Negra), offered summer getaways for the city folk (Santiago — Viña del Mar), and have arguably been home to some of the country's best views (La Caleta — Pan de Azucar National Park).

Trousers like these are so flattering, but they're not the most convenient for city folk who have to change into flats for commuting.

We spoke with Catsimatidis today about his statement, at the Richmond County (as in, Staten Island Richmond County for you city folk) Fair.

As one of the best all - terrain options on the market, you'll find this stroller is equally suitable for city folk running errands around town and outdoor enthusiasts jogging on bumpy trails.

However, back in 1968 in the greater Toronto area, the Chudleigh farm was providing Entertainment Farming for city folk who needed to stretch their legs and breathe some fresh air.

It is stinky in there (for us city folks), this is a farm after all but know that the Lilleymans keep the place very clean and as a result their animals rarely fall sick... which is why I didn't mind Baby Boy frolicking in the hay like he was a Cria (baby alpaca)!

Not exact matches

For me, that means going to networking events, conferences and having lunch with folks in New York City and Boston.

«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he scity — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he sCity Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

Eventually, he hopes the cities will force the state legislature's hand, but he expects a fight: «Texas is a prime state for these folks.

It's good to be able to diversify away from where you currently rent or own physical property, especially for folks who live in expensive coastal cities like SF, LA, San Diego, NYC, and Washington DC where the real estate market is slowing.

Currently, the city has an unemployment rate of just 3.3 %, and the median household income for folks living here is about $ 66,529.

«We just pray for this city, pray for this school, the parents, the folks that lost their lives.

He returns to tell his wife that no wives are to be found for their boys, because the city folk are too evil.

To lift the economic burdens which depress life and spoil opportunity, to liberate folk from the slavery of their diseases, to set men free by education from the Town of Stupidity, which, as Bunyan rightly says, is only four degrees north of the City of Destruction itself — all these endeavors to give persons a chance to be their best selves are crusades for human emancipation and happiness.

Eugene's small number of Christians (it has the fewest churches for a city its size in America) know the church, as do the colorful assortment of folks who stop by for pizza, coffee, books or conversation.

It depends for its delight not upon the situations and ambiguities of the drawing room, the cultivated folk of the city, but upon the exaggerations, the trickeries, the buffooneries, and the fantastic human types so richly produced by the conventionless frontier.

For one thing, his attention to the city seemed like a Catholic thing; in Europe, pagan had meant country folk, and Christianity for a long time thrived most in citiFor one thing, his attention to the city seemed like a Catholic thing; in Europe, pagan had meant country folk, and Christianity for a long time thrived most in citifor a long time thrived most in cities.

«Now I will continue expressly pointing out to (indicating and even underlining for) you people [him] of whom you folks should be made fearful: Be made to fear (be wary of; have respect for) the person [who], after the killing off, continues possessing (having and holding) the right (or: authority) to throw you into the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna; = the City Dump outside of Jerusalem; [= to dishonor you by giving no burial; to treat you as a criminal]-RRB-.

So on Sunday morning, in a great city church, folk are to be found who, amid the glorious architecture, stirring music and highly paid preaching of a metropolitan cathedral, are lonely — lonely, it may be, for a wooden meeting house on a country hillside, lighted by oil lamps, with an organ that squeaks every time the boy pumps it, and a man in the pulpit who can not preach for sour apples, but where they have friends.

In a city like New Orleans, where people don't eat to live, but live to eat that was all it took to get 15 entries and 70 or so folks together on a Sunday afternoon for pints of Guinness, Harps and 15 tastes of chili.

a pre-arranged tour (complete with travel, lodging, guided city tours, etc.) for folks like us?

On the other hand, «good quality fresh fruits and vegetables» was the second-most important feature for country folk (after food safety standards), but ranked only ninth for city shoppers.

(Chicago, IL — June 22, 2015) To the chagrin of folks in Texas, the Carolinas, and other Southern states, Joe's Kansas City Bar - B - Que recently won a USA TODAY 10Best readers pole for best Southern BBQ.

Then they have the league cup game against Hull City on the Tuesday after and Hull could do us a huge favour by taking that to extra time as it has to be decided on the night.They then have to get ready for the always tiring trip to Stoke and the TV folk have done us a favour here by giving their weary legs an early Saturday start before their final UCL game the next Tuesday.

Last year, after a devastating loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football, a lot of folks started writing off the New England Patriots — specifically their quarterback, Tom Brady — for dead.

The classic situation is for a city to havethree clubs: top - status for the elite, middle - class for the strivers and justplain folks, and the minority club for the Jews.

Story for the gods... they don't need Van Persie to beat us, just get some kids off the streets in a Man U, Chelski or hell, even Monaco kit, top it up by putting the moaning one [or just about any brash folk like Berbatov] in the picture and we are in deep s ** t, our players will quake in their boots and lose the plot; we only beat Man City «cos their manager is almost as studious and gentlemanly as our prof. kindly remind me of one feisty game we've won in recent times, ok maybe Stoke [it took a broken leg to Ramsey and constant harassment before our players thought it was necessary to stand up to Stoke].

But easy to say negative things when your an addict of negative making negative statements we did nt win everything every year tottenham has been behind us till this year for 2o years mu went through 3 managers then got mourinho and he said hi i see you have billlions of dollars to spend why do nt you buy a team ill smile for three years make some dumb comments win a title chelsea not yet mu cause you spent more money than anyone else has except those city folks recently and play fall asleep football i mean wenger is great and haters gonna hate cause thats all they know to do they'll hate till we win the title then be happy for a day once its confirmed then say well we did nt win champions leauge or vice versa cause they re a negative addict they nead their dose to disassemble true success

It seems fitting that the Guinness folks would pick New York City's Empire State Building for their new World Records Exhibit Hall, because that oldtime skyscraper held the record as the world's tallest for 39 years.

Wenger was one of many football folk horrified by the # 400million summer spending of Paris Sant - Germain, which includes the loan to permanent # 165million deal for Kylian Mbappe, and Manchester City's # 215million outlay.

The TV people tell me that DC's going to go for Obama, a not unexpected result — while this may not quite be Chocolate City any more, it sure as hell ain't vanilla either — but Clinton's folks aren't giving up on on Latin voters, who've held strong for her in other areas.

«This race is just too important for folks in Central New York and I couldn't sit on the sidelines,» said Perez, a former corporation counsel for the city of Syracuse and candidate for mayor last year.

Democrat Paul Graziano campaigned to represent democratic constituents and be their nominee for the City Council with the hope of joining the democratic conference, but he betrayed those folks with a recent endorsement of a conservative republican based on his own personal vendetta, not what's best for the community.

«For folks to the west of the Hudson, there's just not enough access to the city,» he said during a City Hall news briefcity,» he said during a City Hall news briefCity Hall news briefing.

Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney said, «Folks in the Hudson Valley can tell you just how important revitalization efforts are - we've got aging infrastructure that can be put to good use and we've got a growing demand for alternative transportation and recreation opportunities in a lot of New York's small cities.

«For folks that can't afford the subway every single day, I think that shows the type of city that they're living in.»

«The fact that folks are coming together to make a difference here in the neighborhood will set a precedent for the whole city, not to mention the whole country,» she said.

«For folks at City Hall to move forward the past five years on a project of this size without a single person in charge, without having a well - defined game plan, and without an independent monitor is nothing short of governmental malpractice,» Peters said.

Follow the money Phil your upstate Senators are being paid off to undermine what is good for folks in the city.

It is my opinion that in the Bronx, New York City and throughout New York State folks of all ideologies, political party, socio - economic level and demographics are with a Comptroller who is independent and ever mindful that he is caretaker for the NYS pensions, our revenue, the economy of our great state and a role often overlooked the person who watches for corruption by elected officials, corporations, contractors and others who commit malfeasances.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito doesn't want folks arrested for «low - level» crimes.

The burden of the new fares would generally be borne by folks with more money, another convenient talking point in a city governed by a mayor who ran for office on combating income inequality.

«I know that during this campaign for speaker and over the last many months, not just here at NAN, but in all of the other speaker forums and events and conversations that were had, the issue of wanting to have an African - American speaker was a paramount issue for folks in this room and folks across the city,» he said.

«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he scity — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he sCity Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

Whether they are fighting for every day New Yorkers or making our City a more just place, these folks are truly the spirit of this party.

Folks hoping for a resolution to the Irish Cultural Center controversy at the Sept. 12 meeting of the Kingston city planning board may be disappointed.

By Jeff Moore Wisconsin folk hero Earl Giefer, 94 years cool, decided he'd like to be able to look himself in the mirror every morning rather than take an easy $ 1.2 million from the city of Oak Creek for his...

But as a nearly lifelong resident of Saratoga County, I know and appreciate Saratoga Springs more for its people; the community of folks who give so much of themselves to make this City a better place.