Sentences with phrase «hours out of the city»

Just half an hour out of the city, a private, secluded retreat awaits you in the Adelaide Hills.

Included Activities: Terracotta Warriors Guided Tour Transport: Drive out to the Terracotta Warriors site, located about an hour out of the city.

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«I could work long hours,» said Burch, speaking at the Vanity Fair Founders Fair in New York City, but «it can really wear out a team, so I have to be aware of that.»

Would that take cities like Dallas and Charlotte out of consideration, or would being a couple hours from highly respected universities be good enough?

Well guys it is Hell already here on earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation of the ruler but he seems unwilling to resign before the end of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My business is in the field of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate thing... Already have reduced working hour to one shift to reduce running cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building of our business office writing here as nothing can be done to carry on business even if there is business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out of control as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...

The leaflets often make it seem as if poverty is «out there,» whether that's in the Global South or the inner city, and that the fight against it only includes a monthly donation and a couple of hours of volunteering or a short missions trip.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Munich is a city of gleaming o ce - blocks and glorious baroque churches, tra c curling out towards the motorways and tourists crowding before the famous clock at the gothic town hall with its carved gures dancing as it chimes out the hour.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

A few hours later, the rest of the Elector's party along with Melancthon and Jonas set out on the journey to Bavaria, to the imperial city of Augsburg.

We headed out to the city centre to do some shopping as we had to be out of our apartment for 4 hours for viewings!

I spent hours on the living room couch, reading and dreaming out over the city of Colorado Springs, which spreads just east of our property.

The next day, I was unexpectedly diverted out of Oaxaca City on a 4 - hour road trip that took me to the town of Tlaxiaco, a regional center for the pine - studded highlands called the Mixtec Alta.

The Reds raced into a 3 - 0 lead after just half an hour thanks to goals from Mohamed Salah, Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain and Sadio Mane to put City in real danger of being knocked out of Europe.

I could have followed the security man with the two Domino's pizzas, who walked out of Foreman's dressing room at about the same time, almost an hour after Foreman's 12 - round loss by decision to Evander Holyfield for the heavyweight championship last Friday night at the Atlantic City Convention Center, but he seemed to go in another direction.

From the NCZ offices he can walk to the Lincoln Squash Club for a few hours of practice, which could be more accurately described as bloodletting, considering the intensity of his workouts with Mario Sanchez, Stu Goldstein and other top pros who play out of New York City.

@Nothing Changed — my observation is more concerned with how he played in the league game against Leicester City the first substitutions were elneny and holding who were replaced by ramsey and giroud (respectively): before being subbed elneny appears to have been at sixes and sevens and though he was subbed after close to an hour it was clear to see he was out of his depths lost composure, panicked and he wanted out.

The introduction of Brahim Diaz after the hour did inject some energy into midfield but City were caught out soon after as Basel took a shock lead on the night.

City midfielder Fernandinho's dipping 74th - minute drive skimmed the roof of the net but Pep Guardiola's team were largely content to rein in their attacking instincts for the final quarter hour, so as not to give Everton any further encouragement in their recovery bid — even if the supremely confident Sane was nearly embarraased when attempting to dribble out of his own box as the game entered stoppage time.

City had far too easily throttled the life out of the game by this point and after an encouraging hour the Gunners looked resigned to their fate.

Under a far - reaching plan to be formally unveiled this month, the Chicago Park District and the Chicago Board of Education also would sign agreements that spell out the hours in which each could use some 100 shared facilities across the city, including various gyms, swimming pools, baseball fields and playgrounds.

I put the pack of wipes in my jogger stroller for our four hour outings around the lake trails in my city.

Head to one of the city's many farmers markets with your little ones in tow, check out a children's story hour, or go play for free during Community Night at the Thinkery — a science - centric wonderland of games and interactive exhibits that kids of all ages are bound to love.

Limousine, truck and delivery drivers faced an additional challenge this week when New York City rolled out new regulations to prohibit parking and loading on both sides of several busy midtown Manhattan blocks during rush hour.

Hours after a suspected terrorist killed at least eight people after plowing a truck down a pedestrian lane on a New York City highway Tuesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced stronger security measures «out of an abundance of caution.»

He mentioned William Lanhan, a consultant who allegedly stole $ 3.6 million from the city Department of Education, and the CityTime scandal that broke last year in which consultants paid to supervise the creation of a software program to keep track of the hours of city employees supposedly bilked the city out of $ 80 million.

Cuomo said as much on Monday with reporters in New York City trying to pry details out of him on how he'll propose a system of fees for driving at peak hours in order to relieve congestion and help bolster mass transit.

The City of Syracuse for Example would have a minimum wage of $ 1,500 an hour and drive everyone out of the cCity of Syracuse for Example would have a minimum wage of $ 1,500 an hour and drive everyone out of the citycity.

But there are still pockets of 60 - minute wait times overnight, which is a pain for Islanders who work off - peak hours or go out in the city.

But his staff has pointed out that he's only scheduled to be outside the city for eight days and 20.5 hours — 3.5 hours shy of the nine - day trigger under the Charter.

Mr. de Blasio's announcement today follows a flurry of similar policy initiatives that Mr. Cuomo, after his skepticism of the State Legislature, rolled out unilaterally over the last year: first, a $ 15 - an - hour wage for fast food workers through a special wage board, then the same for state public employees last November, and most recently for SUNY employees Monday — complete with a call for the city to follow.

Just hours earlier, the State Assembly had voted to give residents living in the city's 1 million rent regulated apartments a brief reprieve - pushing back the expiration of the rules until Friday while they hammer out a deal.

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm of Queens, on October 30, presided over a hearing of the Committee on Education he chairs that heard more than six hours of testimony on bullying in the city public schools, with representatives from the Department of Education (DOE) on the defensive and students and advocates -LSB-City Councilmember Daniel Dromm of Queens, on October 30, presided over a hearing of the Committee on Education he chairs that heard more than six hours of testimony on bullying in the city public schools, with representatives from the Department of Education (DOE) on the defensive and students and advocates -LSB-city public schools, with representatives from the Department of Education (DOE) on the defensive and students and advocates -LSB-...]

Between 30 and 40 people turned out Wednesday at City Hall in a cold drizzle to lobby in support of a countywide living wage of $ 14.34 an hour for a worker whose employer does not offer health benefits.

As he continues to roll out top priorities of his State of the State / budget address, Gov. Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed raising New York's minimum wage to $ 10.50 an hour and boosting the baseline for hourly pay in New York City to $ 11.50.

Donald Trump Jr. is facing criticism for a tweet sent in the hours after yesterday's London attack that included a months - old comment from London Mayor Sadiq Khan that terror attacks are part of living in a big city, but left out that Khan was noting residents need to «be prepared.»

The City Council voted in two bills to strengthen a ban on so - called «e-bikes,» by tossing out the part of the law that allowed the vehicles to be used as long as they were not going faster than 15 miles per hour, Quinn said.

Last year, the City Council approved a bill that increased service and the first phase of the plan started in May adding 26 additional trips to cut out hour waits during the weekends.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Hours after debating fellow Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis and alleging the city is fudging NYPD crime stats, Paul Massey dropped out of the race for mayor.

A widely criticized Department of Education plan that would have forced schools to fund after - hours activities out of their own budgets was abandoned after the UFT and its New York City Coaches Association joined with parents, community groups and the principals» union in blasting the idea.

Just a couple of hours after participating in a mayoral debate, Republican candidate Paul Massey suddenly announced Wednesday that he's dropping out of the race for City Hall.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

Announcing the details in a briefing, Governor Cuomo spelled out a complex plan that would allow New York City's minimum wage workers to receive $ 15 an hour in three years, Long Island and Westchester employees to get $ 15 in six years, and the rest of the state to reach $ 12.50 in five years.

Contending prosecutors took his comments out of context and failed to understand he was legally acting as a political consultant, the former Republican city councilman has spent several days on the witness stand detailing precisely what he meant in hours of conversations -LSB-...]

The 26 - hour day stands out, but it's one of many in which Connellan appears to have claimed he was working both his city and state jobs at exactly the same time.

Hours before the Crown Heights fire on Tuesday, he said anyone who rides one in the city is «out of their mind.»

Stores sold out of their stock in hours, and in some cities, the scarce supplies led to nylon riots, full - scale brawls among shoppers.

It was just a little over an hour - long train ride out of the city, but once we got there, lt like a whole new world.

It's only about an hour drive away and it's the perfect day getaway to get out of the city and take a big breath of fresh air.

We live in the city but within an hour or less there's oodles of nature and forest preserves, we love to get out into them when it starts to warm up.