Sentences with phrase «from cities the size»

In the last twelve months alone, twenty new Transition initiatives have sprung up across the UK from cities the size of Bristol to tiny rural hamlets.

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Fifty employees made the move to the Russian city, which is roughly the size of Nashville and more than a seven - hour drive from Crimea.

Though losing a city the size of New York from its roster is certainly a blow to the organization, Airbnb operates in 30,000 cities worldwide, leaving tourists plenty of other places to feel uncomfortable when the person who's supposed to vacate the space they're renting hangs around a bit too long after they arrive.

That team has exploded in size since the move from Saskatoon to Vancouver in 2014, and its 170 - plus people are now split across two floors of the Bentall II building in the city's downtown.

At the same time, auto companies began opening plants in other cities, and the rise of autos imported from Japan started to cut the size of the U.S. auto industry.

-LRB-...) Prices of newly built homes in 66 of 70 large and medium - size cities rose in February from January, data released Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed.

I canvassed a half dozen breweries of different sizes from different parts of the country and got responses from four — Ninkasi (OR) and Harpoon (MA), large craft breweries, Port City (VA), a medium - sized brewery, and Gigantic (OR), a small brewery.

The geographic areas that CFs serve vary in size from entire states or regions of a state (e.g. Southeastern Texas) to major metropolitan cities like New York City to rural counties with populations less than 2,500.

In 2009, a team of 30 from HTB moved to Brighton and reopened the previously redundant Grade II * listed St Peter's Church (unofficially termed «Brighton's cathedral» due to its size and city - centre location).

The manufacturing plants range in size from 200,000 to 350,000 square feet except for the company's headquarters plant near Quebec City, which is close to 500,000 square feet in size.

The 4,000 - passenger Norwegian Breakaway will make its debut next May with New York City serving as its home port, while the equally sized Norwegian Getaway will set sail on its maiden voyage May 2014 from Florida's PortMiami.

A packed house, fans going bonkers, goose bumps the size of hubcaps and Dick Enberg opening up the New Year's Day telecast with, «Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Rose Bowl, where the Arizona State Sun Devils from the great city of Tempe, Arizona...

Both will have their squad size limited for European competitions, down to 21 (for City, and similar for PSG) from the normal limit of 25, and a wage cap will be imposed on that squad.

Head to Party City, where you can select from the wall o» costumes, ask for your size, try it on and make a decision.

I do know that the 9.5 - pound Pockit can go from fully functioning stroller into a compact little package the size of a handbag in seconds, making it an excellent choice for moms who live in cities, travel frequently (it fits in an airplane's standard overhead bin — !!!)

Designed to perform best with children from 4 to 35 pounds, the Graco FastAction Stroller has a moderate size, which fits with most families in big cities.

The grants range in size from $ 800 to $ 2,000, and recipients include both newly formed and established diaper banks, located in all sizes of communities throughout the country, from the frontier to major cities.

Directors pay an annual License fee from $ 800-2000, depending on the territory size, to the head office for use of the website, marketing materials, training, support and more and then run their very own mom to be, mom & baby and mom & tot programs in their own cities.

Kennedy: «I'm disappointed with the addition of the 63rd Senate seat, besides adding to the cost of government, it was put in a place that has no impact on western New York and quite frankly has no impact on the population shift in New York state and if there was going to be an additional seat added that despite the fact that I disagree with you that the Constitution was in fact violated and you say that it was not violated — the fact that this additional seat adding to the cost and size of government was added to a place in the Capital Region rather than a place where distinctly the population grew down in New York City I believe was based upon the fact that had an additional district been added in the city where the population shift had come from it would have included that seat being an additional minority seat and that is why it was put up in the Capital Region and rather than in the New York City aCity I believe was based upon the fact that had an additional district been added in the city where the population shift had come from it would have included that seat being an additional minority seat and that is why it was put up in the Capital Region and rather than in the New York City acity where the population shift had come from it would have included that seat being an additional minority seat and that is why it was put up in the Capital Region and rather than in the New York City aCity area.

The mayor's plan aims to reduce the city's inmate population to 5,000 detainees from its current size of about 9,400.

In Nashville, there's a movement to reduce the size of the city council from 35 members to 15, in order to streamline «getting things done».

Police commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday that he will ask city lawmakers for permission to hire more than 1,000 new officers, a turnaround from his earlier resistance to the City Council's push to increase the size of the Ncity lawmakers for permission to hire more than 1,000 new officers, a turnaround from his earlier resistance to the City Council's push to increase the size of the NCity Council's push to increase the size of the NYPD.

Prevention messages and strategies might also have been better absorbed on Staten Island because of the borough's size and geographic separation from the rest of the city.

But the Observer did open up this year's list to elected officials, a departure from 2014, to take stock of some of the rising and falling stars whose names you might know, sizing them up against the strategists, lobbyists and industry types shaping the city in the shadows.

Unlike former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who for a number of consecutive years required city agencies to make cuts of a specific size, de Blasio has requested the savings from his commissioners without any mandates.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) also announced the results of the Council's Election Day survey Tuesday, in which nearly 1,200 city residents from 300 different polling sites across the city participated and a third reported problems with the ballot design and small font sCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) also announced the results of the Council's Election Day survey Tuesday, in which nearly 1,200 city residents from 300 different polling sites across the city participated and a third reported problems with the ballot design and small font scity residents from 300 different polling sites across the city participated and a third reported problems with the ballot design and small font scity participated and a third reported problems with the ballot design and small font size.

New York developer Jonathan Rose Cos. is set to purchase a $ 500 million portfolio of affordable - housing properties from Forest City Realty Trust, in a transaction that will double the size of Jonathan Rose's portfolio and help turn it into a more significant player in the industry.

Members of New Yorkers for Beverage Choices were joined by city council members and representatives from a local soft drink and beer workers» union to speak out against the proposal to restrict the size of sweetened drinks sold at certain stores to 16 ounces.

But lawmakers say they will likely approve a bill Friday to shrink the size of the horse - carriage business in the city anyway, saying they are under intense pressure from Mr. de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

Mayor de Blasio answered questions from the press on a wide range of topics, including HIV prevention, the role of the Health Department and the «Nanny State», the large - size soda ban, Metzizah B'peh, fines and penalties levied by the Health Department, the ethics complaint filed against Patrick Gaspard, the city's fiscal outlook, stop & frisk and more.

Studies have shown that smaller class sizes lead to better academic results for students and efforts to reduce class sizes have enjoyed broad support from city educators.

When it finally came time to tallying the votes late Tuesday night, New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg's victory over Democratic challenger and city comptroller Bill Thompson turned out to be remarkably narrow — and surprisingly so, in part because of the gap the size of the Hudson between what the candidates spent on this race, some $ 81 million from Bloomberg's pocket to the $ 6.6 million Thompson dropped according to recent filiCity mayor Mike Bloomberg's victory over Democratic challenger and city comptroller Bill Thompson turned out to be remarkably narrow — and surprisingly so, in part because of the gap the size of the Hudson between what the candidates spent on this race, some $ 81 million from Bloomberg's pocket to the $ 6.6 million Thompson dropped according to recent filicity comptroller Bill Thompson turned out to be remarkably narrow — and surprisingly so, in part because of the gap the size of the Hudson between what the candidates spent on this race, some $ 81 million from Bloomberg's pocket to the $ 6.6 million Thompson dropped according to recent filings.

«As a result of this work, average class size across the city has decreased from 26.4 students per class in the 2015 - 16 school year to 26.1 this year,» he said.

Unfortunately, following years of neglect from the Bloomberg administration, our city's school system is plagued by school overcrowding and excessive class sizes, where hundreds of thousands of our children simply don't have adequate space to learn.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

City class sizes have increased for the sixth year in a row, new stats from the city Education Department sCity class sizes have increased for the sixth year in a row, new stats from the city Education Department scity Education Department show.

«As a New York City public school teacher for 25 years, I've seen what our children need to succeed: smaller class sizes, more parental involvement, and balanced input in the education process from all members of the community,» Dromm said in a statement.

The move would get rid of the rule that bars residential towers in New York City from exceeding more than 12 times their lot size, leading to more tall buildings on city streets, according to CraiCity from exceeding more than 12 times their lot size, leading to more tall buildings on city streets, according to Craicity streets, according to Crain's.

The council has given the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene $ 500,000 to research and educate the public on how to combat the bloodsucking pests, which are each about the size of an apple seed and have been found everywhere from the city's high - end clothing stores to its movie theaters.

«My goal has always been to make sure we had a real community plan that would not just bring long overdue resources to our community, but that moved away from the one - size - fits - all approach of previous administrations and instead was tailored to the specific needs of residents that live here today,» Councilman Rafael Espinal, who represents the area, said at a City Council hearing Monday.

It and other operational observatories are already looking for ripples from the violent death throes of massive stars and from collisions of city - size orbs of degenerate matter called neutron stars.

Population movement within Greater Montreal (from suburbs to city centre, city centre to suburbs, and between suburbs) impacts local population size, but the age structure in the central city does not seem to be affected.

This would mean a one metre - depth loss of soil from an area corresponding to the size of the city of Berlin, or a one centimetre loss from an area twice the size of Belgium.

It is a far cry from the standard nuclear plant — the size of a small town, cranking out enough electricity to power a major city — not to mention the even bigger plants going up in China and France.

But he was not feeling so affectionate back then as he attempted to explain the peculiarly irregular timing of radio pulses from this city - size star: «It was really a lot of pain because the pulsar didn't want to fit any standard models.

«The assumption from past research has been that cities of all sizes will eventually decline in density, with greater amounts of urban expansion than population growth.

She hypothesized that large chimpanzee troops use drumming to keep track of one another as they roam their wide territories, which can range from the size of New York City's Central Park to the size of Manhattan island.

An animal slows as it balloons in size; in contrast, the researchers note, cities speed up as population and everything from crime to per capita income grow.

The debris cloud from the merger mushroomed from about the size of a city shortly after the merger to about the size of a solar system after only one day, Kasen said.

Hand harvested from spring - fed terraces near the ancient city of Machu Picchu, our Peruvian Mountain Pink Salt presents as medium - sized salt crystals of varying shades of gold and pink.