Sentences with phrase «many city halls»

There's this saying, «You can't fight City Hall.»

Other times, we were able to work with regulators and City Hall to help them understand the value of Uber.

By the way, [Councillor] Josh Matlow put forward this benign suggestion that would be a tiny step forward in having the city more connected, and that is in some of the major public places [like city hall] you'd have wi - fi made available.

A week of protests over concerns for public safety preceded the spraying, with protesters marching outside city hall and circulating an online petition that gained thousands of signatures.

Because of this, couples are required to hold their wedding ceremony at city hall.

In short, the only thing that could keep Alberta and B.C. travellers from enjoying more airline competition, and a better in - flight experience, is Toronto City Hall.

But now, Stamford hopes to foster homegrown talent, and in a bold move to reinvent itself as a tech hub, it has transformed its old city hall into the Stamford Innovation Center.

Vaughan says it's unlikely Toronto city hall will approve Deluce's plans, but Deluce's cunning and persistence have helped him beat the odds before.

A great way to do this: Hire a lawyer, check your local gambling and gaming laws or visit a local law library (look in your local city hall or court building).

If everything goes according to plan, Zappos will take over the old city hall — a slightly loopy paean to 1960s Modernism with a circular courtyard and an 11 - story tower that for some reason has no windows on one side — at the end of 2013.

A few months after our interview, Hsieh sent me an e-mail confirming the plan to move to city hall.

Despite the fact that it's a weekday afternoon, city hall is empty, too -; the result of a government - mandated four - day workweek to help close the budget gap.

(A new city hall will be located three blocks south, as part of a roughly $ 500 million redevelopment effort that includes a museum dedicated to the history of the Las Vegas Mafia and a proposed arena for a professional basketball team.)

«We're thinking about taking over city hall,» he says.

When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by 120,000 people on April 24, 1865, his widow, Mary Todd Lincoln, explicitly banned shutterbugs to preserve the privacy of the solemn moment.

Rahm Emanuel, whose reputation as a tough and impatient dealmaker followed him from the White House to Chicago City Hall, is finding that governing a fractious city can be as challenging as convincing truculent Republican lawmakers to pass legislation — and, perhaps in the end, unachievable.

When Apostolopoulos showed up at city hall in a cheap leather jacket that appeared to need cleaning, the official thought, «You just bought the Silverdome?»

Twenty - two - year - old Daniela Vargas had just spoken Wednesday at an immigration press conference in front of Jackson City Hall in Mississippi when, according to her attorney, ICE officials pulled her and a friend over on the freeway as they were driving back.

In New York City, it's a street fight between Uber and City Hall.

In other cases, he was briefed down at City Hall.

But as the Ubers of the world continue their seemingly limitless ascent, it's worth noting that it takes a lot — financially, mentally and emotionally — to fight city hall, and the underdog doesn't always win.

During his time at City Hall, where he sat back to back with the mayor, he says, they discussed the company for a total of perhaps one hour before Mike asked him to run it.

When the mayor of a major city prides himself on integrity, on wanting to «clean up City Hall» and put an end to the «gravy train,» but then can not recognize a blatant conflict of interest when he sees one, you see «tone at the top» gone awry.

City Hall has spiralled so out of control that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne expressed her concern and suggested provincial intervention was not out of the question.

The group consists of representatives from academia, the advertising industry, and London City Hall.

Last week, Ford spent a few hours at City Hall signing limited edition bobblehead figures of himself, the proceeds of which went to United Way.

His appointed expert, Martha «Marti» Kopacz of Boston, said it was «skinny» but «feasible,» and she linked any future success to the skills of Mayor Mike Duggan and the city council and a badly needed overhaul of technology at city hall.

As Ford told Canadian Business, he believes that a few unnecessary taxes, graffiti on the streets, and the fact that his predecessors at city hall «aren't business people» are turning companies away.

What kind of message has our Chief Magistrate passed on to Toronto voters about politics and politicians at City Hall?

Fraud and corruption charges abounded in Canada's city halls this year, and no one took the cake more than Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.

Ford regularly cites his background as proof of his ability to bring fiscal responsibility to city hall.

City Hall is a mess.

The Paris crisis talks involved police as well as officials from City Hall and the company that runs the tower which was built to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution in 1789 and is visited by an average of about 19,000 people per day.

It's an argument heard as frequently on the shop floor as at city hall.

Paris City Hall issued a statement after an emergency meeting to say sniffer - dog patrols would be more than doubled, and video - monitoring around the area improved.

That autocratic style may have worked to build a national drugstore chain, but it has proved less helpful at city hall.

At a rally at City Hall on Wednesday morning with the «Fair Fares» coalition — which consists of 68 organizations — Johnson noted that rent, food and Metrocard fares have increased over the years, with wages going down or remaining stagnant.

More than 3,000 members of the public also paid their respects at an open viewing Friday after a week of mourning across Houston that included tributes at City Hall, the police headquarters, the elder Mr. Bush's office, and Barbara Bush Elementary School, the New York Times reported.

That likely makes the registration process much, much easier than having to submit raw paperwork in person at City Hall.

For decades, city hall has tried desperately to convince businesses and developers to invest in the Downtown Eastside.

Realistically, creating those relationships will require government officials to engage startups on their turf — which is far more likely to be a happy hour at a coworking space than a long meeting at City Hall.

The teen's death April 10 from what the coroner said was suffocation from compression of his chest has led to accusations of bungling on the part of Cincinnati police and the city's 911 emergency center, contributed to a City Hall shakeup and raised questions about the safety of the Honda vehicle.

This is Silicon Valley's cult of disruption taking on city hall.

Oversized pictures depicting the heroes of this brave new world are displayed outside the city hall.

The project was born about the time Zappos moved from Henderson, a suburb 15 miles outside of town, into the former Las Vegas City Hall downtown.

The system is the brainchild of city hall staff, says He Junning, the deputy director of the Rongcheng Social Credit Management Office.

Sometimes people only realize it when their big life plans — buying a home, applying for a government position or an academic title — take them to the bright hallways of the city hall.

The bureaucrat, wearing square glasses and a black checkered sweater, shares the social credit department with seven other employees on the second floor of the city hall.

Airbnb supporters outside New York's City Hall in 2015.

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