Sentences with phrase «large city in the nation»

Nicknamed «The Capital of Silicon Valley,» it should surprise no one that San Jose is the second costliest large city in the nation.

Indeed, if Brooklyn was an independent city, its population would be on par with Chicago, the third - largest city in the nation.

For the first time in its history, Rochester does not rank among the 100 largest cities in the nation, according to new population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Officials hope Los Angeles reaches this goal by 2017, making it «the largest city in the nation to achieve the coveted status for pets,» she said.

A dilapidated, tiny kennel, some of the most inadequate I have seen, in Houston, the fourth largest city in the nation.

Los Angeles would be the largest city in the nation to ban the sale of commercially - bred pets.

But then Austin TX became the largest city in the nation to achieve and maintain No - Kill status (90 percent live outcome or higher, a feat long considered impossible for a city of that size) and Austin Pets Alive!

Vesuvio Hotel is in the heart of the largest city in the nation of Costa Rica.

Toronto, Ontario is not just the province's capital; it is also the largest city in the nation.

As one of the largest cities in the nation, Houston has attracted a healthy population of artists over the years who have enlivened the cultural landscape of the city.

As the fourth largest city in the nation, Houston is lamentably lacking in distributed solar power generation.

L.A. thus becomes the largest city in the nation to make the move to Gmail, with Councilman Tony Cardenas calling it a «world - class decision today to support a state - of - the art e-mail system.»

It is currently the 14th largest city in the nation but remains one of the lowest places to live in the United States.

This state harbors some of the larger cities in the nation, and where people gather, medical needs arise.

Following the merger, Louisville will leap from being the 65th largest city in the nation to the 23rd, surpassing Cincinnati, Honolulu, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Nashville.

Since the recent merger of our city and Jefferson County governments, we're the 16th largest city in the nation.

Not exact matches

San Jose held the top position among the 40 largest metro areas in three of our five metrics: Its Q3 2017 average weekly wage of $ 2,297, 2016 GDP growth rate of 5.9 %, and 2016 GDP per capita of $ 126,820 were all best among the nation's big cities.

Great weather and Hollywood are two of L.A.'s biggest draws, but for entrepreneurs in the nation's second largest city, there's more than meets the eye.

In a single day on a business trip, Gerber says he will often have five meetings in a 40 - mile spread across sprawling Los Angeles, the nation's 12th largest city by areIn a single day on a business trip, Gerber says he will often have five meetings in a 40 - mile spread across sprawling Los Angeles, the nation's 12th largest city by arein a 40 - mile spread across sprawling Los Angeles, the nation's 12th largest city by area.

If this trend continues, some say that Houston could surpass Chicago as the nation's third - largest city in about 10 years.

That's down from a peak of 2 million in 1950, when Detroit was the nation's fifth largest city.

Now he's back and polls show him in a tight race for comptroller, the elected chief financial officer and auditor of the nation's largest city.

In Indianapolis, the nation's 15th largest city, homeowners need only earn the median area income in order to afford the median priced homIn Indianapolis, the nation's 15th largest city, homeowners need only earn the median area income in order to afford the median priced homin order to afford the median priced home.

The Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at the NYU School of Law, reports that overall crime rates in the nation's 30 largest cities remain at or near historic lows.

They represented the boards of trade and chambers of commerce in cities as large as Montreal, the nation's economic and cultural hub, and as small as Elmira, a newly incorporated town of 2,500 in southern Ontario.

The nation's largest city has been on an ambitious, state - and city - backed push to broaden its strengths in finance and media and into high - tech, but it is short on Amazon's request for 8 million square feet of affordable office space.

Houston, the nation's fourth - largest city, accounts for about 40 percent of auto sales in Texas.

The city, founded as a French frontier post in 1764, was the nation's eighth - largest city when its population peaked in 1950 at nearly 857,000 residents.

The storm left much of Houston, the nation's fourth largest city, under water and thousands in shelters and without power.

For Tribune Publishing, spun off from Tribune Broadcasting six months ago, San Diego — California's second largest city, and the tenth most affluent metro area in the nation, with a population of 3.2 million — would become Tribune's ninth metro market, and a new twist to C.E.O. Jack Griffin's clustering strategy.

Detroit is the largest city in Michigan and one of the nation's biggest as well.

The uptick in rents at the national level is being mirrored in many of the nation's biggest markets — the map below show's month - over-month rent growth for the nation's 100 largest cities (markers are sized by population):

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

Thousands of Christians have fled Iraq's second - largest city as an Islamist terror group solidifies its control over Christianity's main remaining stronghold in the struggling nation.

Faced with dwindling numbers and an ageing infrastructure, especially in the traditionally strong Catholic bastions of the nation's largest cities, painful decisions must be made about how best to continue the mission of proclaiming the Gospel in a dramatically different cultural setting.

(WWM) Less than a week after Niger's president marched alongside dozens of world leaders in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Muslim protests in Niger have claimed the lives of 10 people and destroyed more than 70 Christian churches in the desert nation's two largest cities.

Peter Anyang» Nyong «o, the governor of the third - largest city in the East African nation, also supported postponing the vote for the presidential election re-run and described counter plans as a «joke».

More than 2,500 years ago, in the bright of day, somewhere in a large Middle Eastern city, the king of a small nation strips down to his underclothes during a religious ceremony and dances to the rhythms of tambourines, castanets and cymbals punctuated by the melody of lyres, harps and other guitarlike instruments.

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, near 80,000 people currently live in Zaatari, making it the fourth largest city in Jordan.

Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.

Tyson Foods, the nation's largest chicken producer, has taken «full responsibility» for accidentally releasing an acidic chemical used in chicken feed into the city of Monett, Missouri's wastewater treatment system that resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 fish.

Terra Bella, CA (June 1, 2015)-- Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc. - the nation's second largest pistachio processor and maker of Setton Farms Pistachio Chewy Bites based in California's Central Valley - is excited to announce that brand Chef Ambassadors, Heather Goldberg and Jenny Engel of Spork Foods will be appearing at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

Terra Bella, CA (June 1, 2015)- Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc. - the nation's second largest pistachio processor and maker of Setton Farms Pistachio Chewy Bites based in California's Central Valley - is excited to announce that brand Chef Ambassadors, Heather Goldberg and Jenny Engel of Spork Foods will be appearing at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

The Lakers also play in the nation's second - largest city, have won 16 championships, and have made the playoffs in 60 of 69 seasons all - time.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and district administrators who have attacked Chicago as having the shortest school day among the nation's 10 largest cities have begun touting this as an accomplishment: CPS officials say the 7.5 - hour day will tie Chicago with Philadelphia as «the leader among the largest cities in instructional time» for...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel began pushing for a longer school day while he was on the campaign trail, saying Chicago's school day is the shortest in the nation when compared to public school systems in nine other large cities.

In October, Emanuel stood with representatives from the nation's three largest soft - drink companies and the American Beverage Association, a lobbying group, to announce a $ 5 million soda industry - sponsored fitness competition between city of Chicago employees and those from San Antonio.

Five years ago, when Chicago became the largest school district in the nation to privatize its meal program, city officials said the initiative was designed to improve the quality and wholesomeness of student food.

Overflowing sewers, runoff from chemical plants and seepage from toxic waste sites have created a hazardous stew in the waters covering much of the nation's fourth largest city, and officials are just beginning to grapple with the health problems looming.

Texas officials warned of «catastrophic» and potentially historic flooding in Houston, the nation's fourth - largest city, as Harvey continued to pummel the state, dropping more than two feet of rain and causing dire, and deadly, flash floods.