Sentences with phrase «makes cities work»

How Africa as a continent makes cities work for all while realising a low carbon and climate resilient economy, will determine the success of the Paris Agreement, says Sadiq Okoh.

They are experienced, resolute and will make City work to break them down — and boast the searing pace of Dimitri Oberlin, the Red Bull Salzburg loanee who had a brilliant group stage, further forward.

This is what makes the city work, how people live, consciously planned and implemented.

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«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

For $ 50, you can get a round trip from the city, but most of the vans make only one trip a day, which means you need to stay for the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedules.

That's no longer the case, as social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo have thrust the power dynamics that she highlights in her own New York City classroom onto a cultural main stage, and made her work more accessible and understandable.

As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

We know that every industry, every community, and every city grapples with safety issues and no one has an absolutely perfect record, but that's what we strive for and we'll keep working as hard as we know how to make our community safer for everyone.»

In the press release for the Oxford study, one of its researchers, Allison Stewart, makes an interesting point: «Unlike other major programmes such as bridges, airports, IT or engineering works, the Games are always a unique undertaking to that city.

The Board and the Executive Leadership Team are confident that Dara is the best person to lead Uber into the future building world - class products, transforming cities, and adding value to the lives of drivers and riders around the world while continuously improving our culture and making Uber the best place to work.

Asked if he thought Bird made mistakes with its launch, VanderZanden answered carefully: «Our approach is to work with cities very early on in the process, so we reached out, started a dialogue with Santa Monica the week we actually launched... Any time there's new innovation it's never clear exactly where you fit into the permitting and regulatory scheme.»

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

Christie and «Hef» made it work and did so while living in two different cities.

Ask CEO Jason Bailey what made Vancouver so attractive to small business, and he will, somewhat stereotypically, tell you that it all stems from the city's geographical location and Vancouverites» philosophy of work - life balance.

Dozens of companies will need to work together to make sure you can travel from one point in a city to another (safely and securely), feeding data from the stoplights, handling the commerce between apps, and even communicating your location with a future car traffic control center.

Having just wrapped up their three - month stint working out of Techstars» New York City - based office, the entrepreneurs that make up the tech accelerator's graduating class know a thing of two about staying productive amidst chaos.

It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the council change its position, but the company had been asking the city for more time as it worked with regional air - quality officials on a plan to make the smell go away.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

The Players: Proximity to the Vancouver Law Courts makes Hawksworth popular with law professionals, but it's really a who's who of the city; music manager Bruce Allen, Telus CEO Darren Entwhistle, and artist Rodney Graham (whose work adorns the room) are all regulars.

She was originally meant to stay at the Bowling Green plaza for only a week, but thousands signed a petition to make her a permanent public work of art, and by the end of March, the city of New York had agreed to let her stay for a year.

WOMEN make up 49.5 per cent of the working population in the City of Perth, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics» Working Population Community Pworking population in the City of Perth, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics» Working Population Community PWorking Population Community Profile.

De Galhau: We «Should Work On» Exchanges Speaking at the City Week banking conference in London April 24, de Galhau, who has gone on record to make some curious claims about cryptocurrency in the past, appeared to choose the industry as a specific point of interest.

Points made in the opinion piece include the following: - The City of Toronto has worked hard to develop good practices on the ground to address homelessness.

OCBC can also assist your business in working with the County of Orange, local cities, and public utilities in helping to identify programs and incentives that can make your company's relocation successful.

Just as he slammed down on them in his work in Chicago when he gentrified the city's black neighborhood, making billions of dollars in real estate gains for the Pritzker and Crown families.

«The Board and the Executive Leadership Team are confident that Dara is the best person to lead Uber into the future building world - class products, transforming cities, and adding value to the lives of drivers and riders around the world while continuously improving our culture and making Uber the best place to work,» Uber's board said in a statement late on Aug. 29.

If you are working with local clients it might make sense to narrow it down to a city or state.

Technology will make paying $ 4,600 a month for a two bedroom in a congested city like San Francisco no longer necessary because you no longer need to work in an office.

City officials have been working overtime to counter that perception by making sure more New Yorkers feel the benefits of living in a cultural powerhouse.

The Kansas City Fed's geographic region has a high concentration of community banks, making our Reserve Bank's supervision and regulation work somewhat unique to the others».

Women@Austin brings together the city's best and brightest female leaders and entrepreneurs to work toward a mission of making Austin the number one supportive city, and most accessible in the nation for women entrepreneurs.

AccessNow founder and Next 36 alumna Maayan Ziv has been named one of eight Toronto women working to make the city a better place, one motivational speech (and awesome app and tech tutoring...

I would go to this thing if I didn't have work commitments and live in the heartland (my city is a nice place, but not close enough to DC to make it to the coming out party).

Originally from Dunscore in Dumfries and Galloway, Miss Haining made her home in the Hungarian capital, where she worked at the city's Scottish Mission School as a boarding house matron.

Some years ago the Rotary Club of New York City through its Boys» Work Committee made an investigation of juvenile delinquency on Manhattan Island.

In the case of a city made of neighborhoods, this means that a neighborhood contains within walkable proximity to one another places to live, work, play, learn and worship.

only reason y i say this is because of Santification, once we give our life to the Lord, we streight way (so to speak) begin the process of Santification, this is Christ making us like him, and this Is SUFFERING It does nt happen over night, but for the duration of our time here, as you have said, its sort of like sin being done unto us, and we are handleing it just like Christ did, (with Love) of coarse with the help of the Holy Spirit, This Does NOT feel Good At ALL since our soulful flesh is Corrupt, (but our spirit is saved) This is were your trails and tribulation, your own desire, and All play apart, Now Moment by Moment we choose by our own will, And Jesus helps in these times, as he was tempeted, but without sin, The devil can do nothing but try and decieve the Christian into thinking that he has to work for his salvation as you have said, this thing here is about your Inheritance In Christ, Its gonna be some show nought broke christian in Heaven, because their trying to set of for themseleve trasure on earth, and their is going to be weeping and gnat of teeth, but it wont be, because of their going to Hell, It will be cause they miss out on what they could have had, and it is Devistation, cause they waste so much time, and they wont be able to attend the wedding, supper of the lamb, they wont be, getting the position over city, galacy, ectt... just check it out some of the points i have made, God Bless you!

«We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world... till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going.»

The Book of Joshua makes it clear that the Israelites get to the murderous work of genocide and become quite efficient at it: And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.

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!

In the very speech in which he spoke about the «City upon a hill,» Winthrop qualified it by cautioning that «if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.»

And yet: The so - called foolish, brave pastors of the 1980s and «90s spent decades doing the hard work of making New York City a place where the seeds of the Gospel could again be planted.

In recent years frequently effective endeavors have been made through such means as group ministries in parishes in critical neighborhoods of large cities and various types of co-operative work in newly created housing areas.

Today Wuerffel is the executive director of Desire Street Ministries, an independent, Christian, nonprofit group that works in inner - city areas to make them more desirable places to live.

It is like trying to make a palindrome of the city Bolton... it becomes Notlob, so it does not work, so is not logic at all.

You lead the city that I love, and I want my church, Ecclesia, to continue working alongside you to make our city better.

We made a simple dinner for the three of us (my parents and myself) since Kyle was in the city for a work dinner.

It is the simple things that are bringing me so much joy lately: enjoying a rainy afternoon at work, biking to various markets across the city, making dinner as a family, sipping beers at the picnic table in the backyard, feeling the crisp spring air breeze gently against my bare ankles as I walk down the street.

Wars were waged over salt, fortunes made and lost, and cities built around coastal and inland salt works.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.