Sentences with phrase «great cities of»

I love the beach favorites and also the great cities of Europe because it has my family's hometown of Lucca on it and others cities I've visited..

Now Chicago is planning a Centennial «To extend and renew the spirit of Burnham and Bennett's vision of civic involvement in planning the futures of Chicago and other great cities of the world.»

During the early years of the Industrial Revolution, London was toxic and the great cities of Europe and the United States of America were not much better.

That carbon is not oxidized, it is sequestered in the great cities of the east and west coast, while the old growth has been replaced by carbon fixing grasslands and new growth.

This exhibition with artworks by fifteen artists from seven nations outlines aspects of human living together in densely populated urban areas, and in the rapidly growing great cities of China in particular.

New York, London and Paris are among the great cities of the world for gallery hopping or visiting a museum or two.

CivCity: Rome, an innovative city builder inspired by the world of Sid Meier's Civilization, and created by a collaboration between Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games, invites players to shift focus from building a multi-city empire and zoom - in on the great cities of the Roman Empire, culminating in Rome itself!

Begin in London, one of the great cities of the world and an endlessly fascinating destination for adults and children alike.

You'll also find national and nature parks and you can also visit the great cities of Zadar, Split and Dubrovnik.

Now a suburb of Tunis, Carthage was one of the great cities of antiquity, which thrived from the 8th century BC until the Romans finally razed it in 146 BC.

Cadogan's expert authors explore Granada, Seville and Cordoba, the three great cities of al - Andalus.

A companion presentation focussing on great cities of the world is also available.

Out of the Chicago fire and the San Francisco earthquake came new urban designs and architectural forms that brought forth the great cities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

They arrive led by Tubal - cain (Ray Winstone), the king of the great cities of Cain's descendants, and want their place on the ark before the rains begin to fall and geysers of water erupt from the ground.

Wares in this distinctive style had long been found in regions as distant as Mesopotamia to the west, the shores of the Persian Gulf to the south, the Russian steppes to the north, and the great cities of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, which once flourished to the east — on the banks of the Indus River of today's Pakistan.

The ancient Maya who built the great cities of Tikal, Palenque and Calakmul used the region's trees for building material and fuel wood.

«As we all know, New York has much in common with the great cities of Italy,» Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at the opening, surrounded by Archbishop Timothy Dolan and a host of Italian dignitaries, including the President of Luguria and the mayors of Alba, Barolo, Bra and Tur.

They think that repeating phrases like the «great cities of the North», will go down well in Yorkshire, opposed to it sounding like the tired old patter of a used car salesman.

He said his party was getting the «brunt of the blame» for «real anxieties about the deficit reduction plans» in Scotland, Wales and the «great cities of the north».

«We are about to undertake a grand experiment, to test whether or not we can set aside politics, to test whether we can shed our decades of old pessimism, an affinity for status quo, and instead embrace the innovative, big thinking, risk taking, progressive approach that defines the great cities of this world,» Walsh said.

This is particularly in the case of the great cities of the Midlands and the North — Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle etc — which show no inclination to favour regional devolution, and — with the exception of Liverpool — have rejected directly elected mayors.

More than 3000 reds will make a short and joyous trip to one of the great cities of Europe to watch United take on Benfica away from home after a visit to lock horns with their biggest rivals Liverpool at Anfield and before hopping on the bus again to face Yorkshire - based Huddersfield Town in a string of three massively difficult fixtures away from the comforts of Old Trafford.

The great cities of Arab culture — Baghdad, Damascus, Aleppo, and Cairo — were under its rule, and the great sanctuaries of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem were under the special care of its sultans.

Apparently, the first to act on this idea were the anchorites of the Nile valley, those hairy, savage hermits of the third and fourth centuries, who periodically descended on the great cities of the valley (especially Alexandria) and, wielding their long gnarled sticks, set about beating up people and smashing everything in sight.

A more natural choice for the new capital would have been one of the great cities of the eastern Roman Empire: Alexandria in Egypt or Antioch in Syria or Caesarea on the coast of Palestine.

Unless you are super rich, you can't own properties in Honolulu, San Francisco, Rio, Amsterdam and all the other great cities of the world.

On July 18 and 19, more than 300 local, national and international delegates and speakers are coming to MaRS for The Innovation City, a two - day conference that will explore and highlight the partnerships, ideas and innovation models that will lead to building the great cities of the 21st century.

Just as I have thrown away this stone, the great city of Babylon will be thrown down with violence, and shall never be found again!!!

Behold, the heavens grow black with clouds; the sun has veiled himself; the moon, pale and forsaken, hangs in the middle air; the hail descends; the seven thunders utter loud their voices; the lightnings send their vivid gleams of sulphurous flames abroad; and the great city of the nations falls to rise no more forever and forever!

He said that he was of course only a minor person in the great city of Athens, no more than a gadfly, stinging a large beast in order to make it take notice of the way it was stumbling along, heedless of its direction.

May 24, 1977: «Orthodoxy refuses to recognize the fact of the collapse and the breakup of the Orthodox world; it has decided to live in its illusion; it has turned the Church into that illusion (yesterday we heard again and again about the «Patriarch of the great city of Antioch and of all the East»); it made the Church into a nonexistent world.

And in the New Jerusalem, the great City of God, «on no day will its gates ever be shut» (Rev. 21:25).

«We are so proud to make that dream come true by partnering with the Independence Bowl in the great city of Shreveport.

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...

We have taken great pride in working for the past two years with USA Rugby, the All Blacks, the great city of Chicago and the Chicago Sports Commission, to bring unprecedented rugby matches to the pitch in Soldier Field.»

So it is my honour and privilege to stand before you today in this great city of Philadelphia to proclaim them again, to join hands as we pick up that mantle of leadership once more, to renew our Special Relationship and to recommit ourselves to the responsibility of leadership in the modern world.

«The honorable Gary McCarthy, mayor of the great city of Schenectady, New York.

It's good to be here in this great city of Florence today at a critical time in the evolution of the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union.

No one is putting a rift between our brothers and sisters who come from other nations and happen to be immigrants in the greatest city of immigrants.»

«Today, I am officially announcing that I'm running to be the mayor of the great city of New York,» she said.

«I hope to use it to grow and learn how to better represent the diverse working families who reside in the great city of Kingston,» she wrote.

Of our great city of buffalo.

Our great city of golf club.

«It is unacceptable that some of our children are playing musical chairs in the schools within the bounds of the greatest city of the world.

I've spent time working and volunteering abroad and spent the last decade living in Miami, London, Hawaii, NYC and now in the great city of Boston!

I am absolutely thrilled to have landed in the Great City of Austin, amongst some of the kindest, most genuine and creative people I have ever encountered and am honored to be able to share this practice with you.

Loved being with them in the greatest city of the USA!!!

I photographed their engagement session in the great city of Baltimore just last year.

This wall art boasts a white non-warping frame that complements the charming style of the colorful geographical image of the great city of Chicago.

It will all soon be done and you'll be living the life in the greatest city of them all.