Sentences with phrase «hundreds of residents of»

A wildfire raged out of control in the high desert east of Los Angeles on Wednesday, injuring two firefighters and one civilian and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents of three small communities.

While local businesses employ hundreds of residents of the Finger Lakes and fill the region's tax coffers, Crestwood wouldn't pay any county sales taxes and has promised roughly eight to 10 jobs.

President Mahama, addressing the rally attended by hundreds of residents of Anum Apapam and surrounding towns, was confident that the high turnout would translate into a massive win for him and the NDC's parliamentary candidates in the district.

Nigeria Politics Online reports that hundreds of residents of Ijebu Ijesa, the headquarters of Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State guarded by security operatives had earlier trooped out to protest against alleged insensitivity of the management of the company to their plight.

According to a resident (name withheld) whose father's house was torched, hundreds of residents of Bunkprugu township have fled the area.

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Emergency officials said hundreds of residents, along with workers at a silica mine and the Lizard Island resort on the Great Barrier Reef had been evacuated.

Hundreds of thousands of residents had already fled the area in the years and months preceding April 7, but tens of thousands stayed.

It would cost the average residential customer about $ 20 a year — and commercial accounts hundreds or thousands of dollars — and was likely to be bitterly unpopular with residents.

In a place like New York City, such an apartment might cost $ 50,000 more, but could save a resident hundreds of thousands in the long - run.

Although Texas hospitals have tried to make the case that lack of coverage for hundreds of thousands of people is indeed a problem for all state residents, they haven't been successful in convincing Gov. Gregg Abbott to abandon his staunch opposition to expanding Medicaid.

We have a country that started from scratch, with just 4 million people living here in 1790, and ended up with close to 25 percent of the world's GDP and more than 300 million residents a few hundred years later.

It may be sufficient, he said, for AGs to allege that hundreds of thousands of residents spent a minimal amount of money in response to a data breach.

In Colombia, the offer of each Fund is addressed to less than one hundred specifically identified investors, and such Fund may not be promoted or marketed in Colombia or to Colombian residents unless such promotion and marketing is made in compliance with Decree 2555 of 2010 and other applicable rules and regulations related to the promotion of foreign financial and / or securities related products or services in Colombia.

Hundreds of thousands of Texas residents need help to find a prompt, predictable and efficient path home.

April 12 West Virginia sued Equifax Inc on Thursday for failing to safeguard consumer information of hundreds of thousands of state residents and for delaying alerting the public to a breach that exposed the personal data of about 148 million people, the state's attorney general said.

«As one of hundreds of cities currently vying for Amazon's HQ2, we believe it is in the best interest of Baltimore City and its residents to keep our competitive proposal confidential at this time,» Weller said in a statement.

Together with her team of lawyers and assistants at the Law Offices Rainelda Mata - Kelly, she has successfully guided hundreds of expats through the process of becoming residents of Panama.

At Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco, offices opened early and hundreds of employees flocked to the 9th floor cafeteria to watch the festivities on TV while eating «cronuts,» a croissant - donut hybrid, made by Twitter's resident chef, Lance Holton.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats stood up for residents of coastal communities Tuesday as several hundred British Columbians gathered at the legislature to protest the B.C. Liberals» reckless cuts to ferry services.

It enables eight million residents, thousands of commuters, and hundreds of tourists to turn the tap and drink potable water from miles away.

A declining church sits in the shadow of a massive high - rise apartment building which brings hundreds of new residents to that community each year.

At that time the population was about one hundred and ten thousand people, today there are half a million residents of the island of whom one hundred thousand are Muslim Turks.

Hundreds of residents in a poor Nigerian village have paid homage to a British missionary that died after... More

Among the residents of Jabesh - gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

Wisconsin is blessed with hundreds of breweries and microbreweries — it's beer that made Milwaukee famous, after all — and many founding residents were of German extraction, but this is a portion of the liquor business that Badger Liquor cedes to others.

A former resident of Italy, she started her writing career translating video game scripts from English to Italian, and now has numerous app launches and hundreds of blog posts in her portfolio.

Set near the Five Diamond Resort's new Signature Residences, the restaurant offers guests a magical atmosphere, complete with hundreds of twinkling lights, live lounge music from a resident DJ, one - of - a-kind artworks and an inspired menu of fresh seafood dishes prepared using the wok and tandoor.

Back by popular demand, the Great Big Idaho ® Potato Truck officially set off on its seven - month cross-country journey with support and good wishes from Governor C. L. «Butch» Otter and hundreds of Emmett, Idaho residents.

She said she was prompted to look into the issue after receiving hundreds of emails from concerned residents.

One hundred and forty - three miles into the range country southwest of Odessa, Texas, lies the hamlet of Alpine, a cow and college town that 6,800 residents call home.

We received hundreds of submissions and asked residents to vote for their favorite out of three names.

Functions of the Executive Director's Office include coordinating efforts of the Board of Commissioners, 103 full - time staff, approximately 160 permanent part - time and 840 seasonal employees, and hundreds of volunteers for the leisure time benefit of the Arlington Heights Park District residents.

In recent months, New Trier officials have launched an extensive community outreach program, huddling with hundreds of residents at a series of open - house events and gauging residents» opinions of the project both online and via 25,000 surveys mailed to homes in the township.

Hundreds of residents living in Cary have asked the Park District to purchase the Hoffman farm to keep it out of the hands of neighboring Lake in the Hills, which has plans for the land that include a gravel pit.

«We have received hundreds of positive comments from our residents regarding the new logo and the new look of our program guide,» Brissa said.

Angry at a proposal to counter expected overcrowding with a three - classroom portable trailer outside Forest Glen Elementary School, hundreds of Glen Ellyn residents flooded District 41 board members with e-mails and calls in opposition the last two weeks.

A real shame hundreds of thousands of Rochester residents suffer with her poor performance.

Such a re-valuation would likely have placed many residents in a position of having to pay hundreds of pounds more per year.

Hundreds of Lewisham residents in South London are expected to protest on Saturday (26 January) against proposals to shut the A&E and maternity departments at Lewisham hospital.

«I hope a Special Election is called as soon as possible so Shelley Mayer can hit the ground running and give the hundreds of thousands of Westchester residents the representation they deserve.»

Hundreds of borough residents and a crush of elected officials representing Queens and beyond marched down College Point Boulevard last weekend to speak out against hate crimes following the brutal beating of an openly gay College Point man earlier this month.

Hundreds of Kimba residents fled to Biu nearby, where they were put up in a refugee camp already brimming with people running from Boko Haram.

City pols are urging the state to block the closing of a psychiatric ward in upper Manhattan, where residents fear that hundreds of untreated mentally ill people will wind up on neighborhood streets.

But many see it as a hindrance to a Democratic majority in the state senate, including hundreds of residents who called Peralta a «traitor» for joining at a recent town hall.

Hundreds of thousands of New York students would be able to attend college for free under a proposal announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make state universities tuition - free for residents earning $ 125,000 or less.

The elected officials, who are both black, addressed a roughly hundred - strong Uber - organized crowd gathered in Queensbridge Park in Queens — a hodgepodge of company drivers, customers and local residents of the adjacent Queensbridge Houses, apparently drawn by the free food, children's games and classic R&B and girl - group pop blasting from the speaker system.

YORKVILLE — Hundreds of residents blasted the planned East 91st Marine Transfer Station Tuesday, saying the project would leave poor and elderly residents vulnerable to high levels of pollution and vermin.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined by Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein and hundreds of Erie County residents as he took part in a free influenza immunization clinic sponsored by the Erie County Department of Health («ECDOH»).

Hundreds of residents in Horve Havedzi at Keta in the Volta region have been rendered homeless following tidal waves that swept away homes on Friday dawn.

In mid-August, on the day before Enck was to meet with residents concerned that the state had not done enough to address the issue of oil trains and industrial pollution at public housing near the Port of Albany, the state announced it would devote hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment for the area and step up enforcement of rules regulating diesel trucks.