Sentences with phrase «middle of a small city»

NFS: Rivals puts you in the middle of a small city, a forest in the hills, a snowy mountain, and a desert.

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With a population of just over 45,000 people, Cornwall is an «in - the - middle» kind of place — not quite large enough to be a city, but certainly bigger than a small town, and as a Read more...

The effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

Tthe effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

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.

I noticed a small sign that said PICK YOUR OWN CHARD so I wandered through the entrance — into a little oasis in the middle of a residential neighborhood just south of the city — and tiptoed around, looking for someone to see if I could actually pick my own chard or if it was more of one of those I choose my own chard and you physically pick it for me kinda deals.

If you took a bird's eye view of Puerto Rico and drew a line down the middle, north to south, you would only miss passing directly through the small city of Coamo by a hair.

He comes from a small city in the middle of France.

It's from small towns, suburbs, cities and the middle of nowhere; it's liberal, conservative, radical and none - of - the - above; its parents are straight, gay and confused; it listens to country, rock and roll, Tejano, jazz, classical and hip hop; and its friends, lovers and family are white, black, brown and every shade you can imagine in between.

Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

Opponents gathered at the foot of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City said Move NY burdens middle - class residents in the outer boroughs as well as small businesses.

With a monthly median rent of $ 980 per month, Ulster County fell somewhere in the middle of the top - 25 pack, less than half the price of the big - city contenders and modestly higher than some of the other smaller metros.

«Travis is a beautiful, small town in the middle of a borough of a half - million people in the middle of the largest city in the United States of America,» the mayor had said before cutting a ribbon to launch the start of the parade.

A small group of middle school students caused the trouble, said Capt. Karen Smith of the North Tonawanda Police Department, the city's juvenile aid officer until recently.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelcity into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelCity Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelcity (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

Many small cities still exist in Middle America and each has its share of 19 - year - olds.

We are sitting in a small conference room of North Star Academy Vailsburg Middle School, in Newark's West Ward, one of this poor city's poorest neighborhoods.

By last summer, the 40 - year - old former IBM executive was becoming increasingly disenchanted with Camp Creek Middle School, the 988 - student school her elder son Chaz attended in this small city on the outskirts of Atlanta.

We find that moving to a middle school causes a substantial drop in student test scores (relative to that of students who remain in K — 8 schools) the first year in which the transition takes place, not just in New York City but also in the big cities, suburbs, and small - town and rural areas of Florida.

New York was one of the first states to use Common Core - aligned tests, and as students» scores plummeted under the new tests, a small army of mostly white, middle - class parents in the city's suburbs began to loudly oppose the exams.

Baltimore City teachers say they look forward to the middle grades summer school program because of small class size, consistent discipline and time to show they care.

Richard Kahan, founder and chief executive officer of the Urban Assembly, a network of 20 small high schools and middle schools in the city, said he knew that students were doing better in small schools than large schools, but was still surprised by how positive the results were in the study.

Motorists driving west on Highway 389 across the parched barrens of the Uinkaret Plateau are apt to be surprised when, twenty - eight miles past Fredonia (population 1,036, the second - largest town on the Strip), Colorado City suddenly materializes in the middle of nowhere: a sprawl of small businesses and unusually large homes squatting beneath a towering escarpment of vermilion sandstone called Canaan Mountain.

BRIDGING THE GAP Before receiving funding in 2010 to open a small public middle school in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City, principal Nadia Lopez envisioned her students crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.

They tend to be smaller cities and scattered across the middle of the state, except for Waukegan.

For those who want to start their post-college life in the middle ground between big - city life and snoozy small towns will fit right in with any of these cities.

Rice Village provides hundreds of families with that small - town community but we are right in the middle of the bright lights of the city.

My school is located in the middle of a city so our typical patients are small animals including laboratory animals, dogs, and cats.

A pet boutique in the middle of an affluent neighborhood in New York City may want to stock several ritzy but small - sized items that will match and fit nicely in apartments found in that area.

My hometown is Varese, a small city in Italy a few km from the Swiss border, right in the middle of the lakes area (Como, Maggiore, etc).

«First, you fly to Panama City, then you take a plane to the middle of nowhere, then a guy picks you up in a small boat and takes you another hour from the middle of nowhere.

I am from a very small town, and I was already very apprehensive about the thought of going to a university in the middle of NYC, and when I imagined myself going to CU I easily saw myself getting lost mentally in the city, and becoming disenchanted with my own university.

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Don Pendleton grew up as a skateboarder in a small town in West Virginia... a rural area in the middle of nowhere as far as metropolitan US cities go.

His intensely hued portrayals of sites in Havana, Miami, New York, and the Middle East feature rectilinear overlays of strong, intensely moody colors that integrate multiple allusions to reason and its traditions — the ideal planned - city street grid; the Golden Ratio and its long history as a supposedly true and self - evident compositional principle; the sharp - edged, no - nonsense Bauhaus aesthetic — with subtle references to the small flashes of vitality and inspiration that lurk within even the most drab and desolate environments.

This post about the «Cheesecake Cohousing Consortium» shows that small, communal living isn't just about Millennials living in the middle of the city.

A 2016 debris removal effort of Midway Atoll, an island with a population of less than 60 in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (1,300 miles from Honolulu, the closest city), found almost 5,000 bottle caps; if not recycled, these caps travel a large distance and pose a danger to marine life because of their small size

Having manufacturing facilities on both coasts — near Los Angeles and in Greenville, South Carolina — has helped midsized and smaller cities in the middle of the country make the shift from diesel, because Proterra's focus on local economies helps take politics out of the equation.

They tend to be smaller cities and scattered across the middle of the state, except for Waukegan.

The University of Iowa is effectively its own small town in the middle of Iowa City.

This trial had a sample of 28 rural towns and small cities («communities») located in Iowa and Pennsylvania, each of which contained one school district with one high school and one or more middle schools.6 The communities were grouped into matched pairs based on school district size and geographic location, and then one member of each pair was randomly assigned to participate in PROSPER and the other to continue school and community services as usual (i.e., the control group).

Recruitment targeted schools located in four study sites within the U.S.: 1) Durham, NC, a small city with a large low - to middle - SES, primarily African - American population; 2) Nashville, TN, a moderate - sized city with a mix of low - to middle - SES, African - American and European - American families; 3) Seattle, WA, a moderate - sized city with a low - to middle - SES, ethnically diverse population; and 4) Central Pennsylvania, a mostly rural area with low - to middle - SES, European - American families.

Indeed it is like a small town school in the middle of the city.

The inner city is in the middle of a residential property growth phase fuelled by property investors both large and small refurbishing and converting existing buildings to decent and affordable accommodation.

I have lived in three different major cities and a small town in the middle of nowhere.

«They don't care about having a large home in the middle of nowhere,» says Rosie Derryberry, a 29 - year - old agent with Realty Executives in Scottsdale, Ariz. «They would rather have something smaller and more manageable in order to be in the heart of the city.»