Sentences with phrase «last major town»

Accommodation in Vioolsdrift Springbok might be regarded as the last major town en route to Namibia from Cape Town but the little town of Vioolsdrift serves as a border post that lies virtually on the border with Namibia, on the south bank of the Orange River.

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They've held vigils and marches and participated in a major, live town meeting last week with Univision at our Hialeah Campus.

The club's last major trophy was the FA Cup in 1938, when Preston North End beat Huddersfield Town in the final.

The Chief of Army Staff, Major General Richard Kwame Opoku - Adusei, says the military will be firm on the ground, after deadly clashes in the Northern Region town last week.

But the town board under Venditto last year passed a major revision of its ethics code, including the creation of a new ethics board, and adopted new financial disclosure forms.

Last month, he started a nonprofit called New York's World's Fair of 2014, and he's drafting letters to «all the major leaders» around town to join his effort, which he says is a better idea than Mike Bloomberg's failed bid to draw the Olympics.

The incumbents in the town board race are Peter J. Friedel of West Shokan and Donnie VanBuren of Boiceville, who last ran four years ago as the town was still reeling from major flood damage from tropical storms Irene and Lee, with preparedness and town response the key issues at the time.

VanLuven made the issue of growth one of the three major points of emphasis of his speech, which lasted 15 minutes and was held at town hall amid a crowd that included several other local elected officials and members of his family.

Last month very recently made a journey to Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels).

She is in her desolate way «the last rose of summer / Left blooming alone / All her lovely companions / Are faded and gone» and oddly the town's dwarf, wittily played by Peter Dinklage, has a major crush on her, and his gallant admiration is to play an important role.

The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love and war that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set.

The general real estate market of Ontario is the subject of much debate as its cities and towns have experienced major growth in real estate over the last couple of years.

The remote town of Hana on Maui's east side is known for being one of the last villages untouched by major development.

NC: The Last Word portfolio also includes Racontours, a touring outfit which offers bespoke, private tours to Cape Town's four major tourist attractions.

Committed to comprehensive, large - scale projects by major international artists for presentation to the public, Ayn Foundation's current projects include Andy Warhol's The Last Supper and Maria Zerres's September Eleven located in the west Texas town of Marfa; an installation of work by Dan Flavin at Fisherbau in Polling, Germany; and an exhibition of paintings by Arnulf Rainer at Mana Contemporary.

Hailed as the «Biggest Art Colony in the World» by the Boston Globe in 1916, the relatively small Cape Cod town has hosted some of the biggest names in art since the late 19th and early 20th centuries and has played a pivotal role in the development of nearly every major American art movement in the last 100 years.

Last July, BitX, a bitcoin exchange headquartered in Singapore but whose development team is based in Cape Town, partnered with PayFast, a major South African payments gateway, to provide the bitcoin payment option to customers of more than 30,000 merchants.