Sentences with phrase «laid upon our city»

«It is really going to financially handicap our city if the full financial brunt is laid upon our city.

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4 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 and lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

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!

According to the city's resolution, the proposed pipeline would be laid in areas containing sensitive aquifers upon which residents depend for drinking water.

Mike Bloomberg built upon his predecessor's public - safety reforms; shepherded the city through two grave economic crises, the post-9 / 11 local contraction and the 2008 recession; and laid the groundwork for significant public - education reform.

My eyes were lit upon the sparkles of the early morning frost that froze in time the splendour of the architectural gem of a city laid before me.

Reflecting Piano's enduring passion for boating, the building vaguely resembles a maritime structure — kind of a drilling platform and a ship in a dry dock combined — gently laid down upon the seafront and overlooking the ocean, the city's former dockland area, and the historic Jardines de Pereda gardens nearby, recently renovated after a design by Spanish landscape architect Fernando Caruncho.

Upon arrival in a new city, travelers consult maps, take note of major buildings, and compare neighborhoods to get the lay of the land.