Sentences with phrase «looming over the city»

And after all we had seen with World Vision in Bolivia that week, this statue of Jesus, though beautiful, seemed so still and so removed from the people below, looming over a city where hunger, abuse, poverty, and despair still hide in shadowy corners.

As the major areas of contention become clear, some remain from recent years, while others are new, and questions loom over the city budget cycle due to uncertainty in Washington, D.C., state funding shifts being proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and a slowing city economy.

Looking up at a hill that looms over the city of Visoko, Osmanagich recognized a shape he had seen many times while visiting Latin America.

At the opening of the startling and funny Seven Psychopaths the camera pans across the hills above Los Angeles, taking in the iconic sign that has loomed over the city since 1923, first as HOLLYWOODLAND and more recently simply HOLLYWOOD.

Cable cars afford fantastic aerial views, climbing the peak of Monserrate, the ten thousand feet - high mountain looming over the city, while the Zona G serves up exquisite international cuisines.

The Potala Palace sits looming over the city as Buddhist monks passed by us on their daily routines, reminding us that this city was once the pulse of a nation in change.

The most striking mountain of the range that looms over the city is Huayna Picchu.

Edinburgh Castle, perched high atop the volcanic Castle Rock, looms over the city of Edinburgh.

It is one of the new seven natural wonders of the world and looms over the city, visited via cablecar and hiked by millions every year.

With Table Mountain looming over the city and a plethora of restaurants, museums and shops available, spending time in Cape Town is a great way to end your South African adventure.

The eye - catching cones of Gunung Meja (661m) and Gunung Iya (637m) loom over the city and the nearby black - sand and cobblestone coastline.

Moscow already has two museums that show contemporary art: the National Center for Contemporary Art, opened in 1994, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, opened in 1999 by the controversial sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, whose giant statue of Peter the Great looms over the city.

The alternative NOT FAIR art fair took place for the second time on the ground floor of the stunning Palace of Culture and Science, a Soviet landmark that looms over the city.

Office buildings loom over city streets, twist together or merge with interiors.

The artists Helen Evans and Heike Hanson, who work together under the alias HeHe, give new meaning to the term «chemical sensitivity» by lighting up the smoke trailing from a tall smokestack which looms over the city of Helsinki.

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One day, this peculiar cobra - shaped skyscraper might loom over a major city in Asia or the Middle East.

The Twin Towers once stood proudly over the city; their remains» sixteen acres of ruins, a hole six stories deep looms just as large.

Sanchez clearly doesn't have his heart in the team anymore, and he'll certainly be distracted with City looming over him this entire month.

Shola Olatoye, the chairwoman of the New York City Housing Authority, said Tuesday that she's resigning because it's the right time to go, not because of scandals over false lead - paint inspections and failing boilers or looming oversight by the state and federal government.

Critics say the tax bill looms like a «dagger» over New York City — particularly the real estate industry — reducing breaks that many in the region heavily lean on, despite cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

ALBANY — The State Legislature has adjourned for the year without coming to an agreement on mayoral control of New York City's schools, leaving a looming question mark over the chain of command for the nation's largest public school system and its 1.1 million students.

There's not much drama over which party will win the looming special election to fill the Bronx district recently vacated by New York City Council Member Ruben Diaz Sr..

In a statement, Brewer said, «I have great respect for the professionals at the Department of City Planning, but when you look at the Two Bridges community and the way these massive towers would loom over it, you can't help but understand that «minor modification» has lost its meaning and we need clearer rules.»

The receivership policy, which has loomed large over struggling schools since it was introduced in 2015, in effect simply requires that the city decide how to deal with the school.

THE specter of financial collapse looms over New York State's cities.

ALBANY — In a potential reprieve for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the New York State Legislature seemed poised to grant two years of mayoral control over New York City's schools, ending a looming uncertainty over the nation's largest school system and its 1.1 million students.

SUDDENLY, out of darkness, a ghostly city of gnarled white towers looms over the submersible.

URBAN SHADOW: Human development in Monterey, Calif., looms over the nearshore marine ecosystem of the city's namesake bay, illustrating the high potential for anthropogenic — man - made — environmental stress.

A pervasive sense of evil looms over the land as people struggle to survive and rumors circulate of vile, demonic creatures that roam the cities to claim any souls still living.

It's another (read: fantastic) day in the life of Spider - Man as he slingshots his way through tight corridors lined with looming edifices and over the heads of captivated (and conveniently placed) on - lookers — plucking children, police officers, even a desperately lonely and low - level OsCorp engineer named Max Dillon (Jamie Foxx) out of harm's way as an out - of - control tanker truck carrying plutonium samples and driven by a crazed Aleksei Sytsevich (Paul Giamatti) smashes through the city.

The city looms over the room of Ken Paine (Craig Stevens), the man Dixon will kill in a fist fight, setting the narrative in motion.

With this reality looming over the heads of legislators, who were already looking at a projected $ 6 billion deficit in the state budget, it becomes easier to understand why a costly settlement with the city has been so elusive.

With a fight over school funding looming, Richmond City Council and School Board hold their third joint meeting

So the Jag's a great car, and tempting, but the Porsche Boxster looms over the sports car market like those city - sized flying saucers in Independence Day.

The sludge - gray Onandaga River divided the city as it met Lake Erie beneath a steel bridge: the valley carved by the river was a treeless expanse of railroad tracks, boxcars, refineries, cranes, chemical plants, and, looming over all of this, the smokestacks of the steel mills — squat, black, and enormous — on which Steelton's existence had once depended.

The looming parapets of this historic destination have seen their fair share of hardships over the years, most famously and recently the tragic bombardment of the city by the Yugoslav People's Army in 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence, following the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia.

It's certainly hard to argue with its wealth of ancient architecture, especially when everywhere you turn, you can't fail to see the impressive Acropolis citadel looming large over the city.

A small city located along the banks of the river Meuse, with the citadel of Dinant looming with grandeur over the city.

After a trip to the city of Launceston, we climbed to the top of Cradle Mountain, a famous jagged peak looming over the center of the island.

Fortresses, such as Morro Castle, still loom over the older parts of the city, with its many churches, colonial buildings and narrow streets.

Included is perhaps the most impressive site in the city, Sacsayhuman, where huge ceremonial walls loom over splendid views of the city.

Purple mist descending over a mysterious village with a mile high ancient structure looming in the background or billions of lights illuminating a cyberpunk city are just some of the many breathtaking environments I went through, all the while chopping enemies to bits and bouncing around the map.

With a very wanting admirer looming over her in an unfamiliar city, it rests on the protagonist Quote to saver Sue and her brother Kazuma.

While visiting the ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia, thousand - year - old temples looming over me, drenched in sunrise, I was still intoxicated at 5 AM after an hour's sleep post — Pub Street.

Migone looks at French playwright and poet Antonin Artaud's writings, with their implications of strangled speech and glossolalia; American composer Alvin Lucier's groundbreaking 1969 recording «I Am Sitting in a Room»; Erik Satie's looped composition «Vexations»; Marina Abramovic's confrontational performance «Rhythm 0»; Adrian Piper's «Untitled Performance for Max's Kansas City»; Herman Melville's short story «Bartleby, the Scrivener»; Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson's documentary film First Contact; and of course the work that most looms over this topic: John Cage's paradigm - shifting 1952 composition «4» 33».»