Sentences with phrase «more than a town»

The only way I can see justifying it is if you think worship is nothing more than a town meeting and insist your view is the right one.

My guess is this really is post-apocalyptic Hyrule so we'll see groups of refugees more than towns.

Not exact matches

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

HP (hpq) recently said that they would dismiss 29,000 workers — more than the population of many U.S. towns.

Fikret Abdic was recently elected mayor of the western Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, having served time for setting up prison camps during the war that housed 5,000 prisoners, more than 300 of whom were killed.

The average home in the beach town has more than six rooms.

He earlier spent more than six years in jail over the 1991 massacre of some 260 people in the Croatian town of Vukovar.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

The event, now in its 27th year, is one of the city's largest — more than 170,000 people pile into the growing desert locale to make deals, listen to copious amounts of music and explore this always - active college town.

We pulled into Litchfield, CT on a Sunday in early November and exuded a whiff more rock star than the town might generally endorse.

Most online platforms report hundreds of hotels in the town (TripAdvisor lists more than 300), though concrete numbers are hard to come by.

At their peak a century ago, there were more than 2,500 company towns housing 3 % of the US population, according to The Economist.

Presidential candidates, of course, have a lot more jobs available if they win than a small town mayoral candidate, but they also have more staff.

Sklyarevskaya, who denied any wrongdoing, was among 17 people who were photographed by Reuters apparently casting ballots at more than one polling station Sunday in the town of Ust - Djeguta, southern Russia.

Time was, folks thought of the Pacific Northwest as little more than logging towns, seaports, and some of the biggest saloon stops on the way to the Yukon Trail.

Eleven cities and towns around the U.S. are sharing more than $ 1.5 million in preservation grant funds, recently awarded by American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to preserve unique features of downtown districts.

Though it may be small, Saint - Chinian has everything you need for daily life — local produce shops, restaurants, bars, doctor's office, dentist, pharmacy, a health shop, wine cellars — yet it is still a small, charming little town, barely more than a village, typical of the region and packed with history and lots to see and do.

Bill Morneau was in Oakville, Ont., for a town hall meeting where a question - and - answer session boiled over more than once into a shouting match.

The store, for example, boasts a «town square,» where seminars are supposed to be held, but the area in question consists of nothing more than two chairs in front of a video screen.

Indeed, in a 1999 study, Rolf Reber and Norbert Schwarz found that college students were significantly more likely to believe that statements that a particular city was in a particular town («Osorno is in Chile») were true when they were presented in highly visible shades of red and blue than when they were presented in moderately visible shades of green, yellow, and light blue.

More than 30 people were injured in the town, according to Kurdish Health Minister Rekawt Hama Rasheed.

And CNN's (twx) first hour of a three - hour town hall of its own got about 30 % more viewers than MSNBC's town hall did.

«Some cities and towns have geography that is more accommodating for some people than for others... if you know you're introverted, then you may be rejuvenated by being in a secluded place, while an extrovert may be rejuvenated more in an open space,» Oishi commented.

For those inclined toward more traditional retirement activities, the town won't disappoint: It has no fewer than 10 public golf courses.

Chipman has known for more than a decade how good of a hockey town Winnipeg is.

That was followed in 2012 by Victoria newspaper publisher David Black's much more ambitious but somewhat speculative Kitimat Clean project, consisting of a $ 25 - billion oil refinery in the northern town that would create jobs and taxes in B.C. while ensuring that the exports were of finished products rather than the diluted bitumen from the oilsands whose behavior in the case of a marine spill is virtually unknown.

The town is home to more than 500 such facilities and competition is fierce.

Tuk - tuks are everywhere and rarely charge more than $ 1 per person for any destination within a mile of the town center.

More out - of - town money than previous years is funding Corpus Christi city council elections.

If you choose to live in Louisville rather than Kentucky's smaller towns, you can get more for your money, according to another GOBankingRates study.

Hence the rental costs are not low, even in the forlorn more rural towns, the rents are still quite surprizing.The idea that home prices in Ann Arbor and other midwest cities that still have jobs are lower than west coast prices is only true when compare to prices in San Francisco proper.

But in the past four weeks alone more than 133,000 people have fled, with tens of thousands more trapped inside its largest town, Douma, UN refugee agency spokesman Andrej Mahecic said in a statement Tuesday.

After all, this is the same group of investors — 3G and Buffett — that didn't blink when it closed its operations in Leamington, Ont., rendering the town's «tomato capital of Canada» moniker little more than a cruel joke.

More than 40 years later, the nerve agent they developed apparently turned up in a quiet English town, where it nearly killed a former Russian spy and...

Over the next few months, the Canadian Labour Congress will host town hall meetings in more than 25 communities across the country.

The Canadian Labour Congress is hosting town hall meetings in more than 25 communities across the country to address the need for a universal prescription drug plan that covers all Canadians, regardless of their age, income, or where they work or live.

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...

Alberta's next provincial election is more than two years away, but for Jason Kenney — and the thousands packing his town halls to hear him speak about uniting the province's two free enterprise parties — the «project» to dismantle Rachel Notley's NDP reign is well under way.

I knocked on doors in every hamlet, village and town in the constituency and attended more rodeos, parades, town fairs and demolition derbies than I ever imagined existed.

After more than six decades of publishing weekly, the Los Altos Town Crier is a local institution.

Syrian troops going house to house have detained more than 3,000 people in the past three days in a rebellious town that government forces recently retook in some of the worst fighting since the country's uprising began six months ago, an activist said Monday.

The first time I went into town with wrapped hair, I also wore a longish skirt and was generally a bit more «modest» than usual.

Father Maturi has more than common sense, obviously, and there will be plenty of people who recognize this and want to be a part of something that means hope for the future of that town.

People are making their lives complicated more than they need to by making world problems their problems; go to some small town and ask farmer's wife what is her biggest worry when she wakes up!!

ISIS militants massacred more than 200 civilians, according to a disturbing report, when they raided the small, mostly Kurdish town of Kobani on the Syrian border late last week.

«In our villages, women have always worn scarves; they wear them in a more natural way than the up - town, urban Tehrani women, who, since the revolution, have been forced to wear them.

The town planner has more influence on the character of the town than does the architect, and the architect more than the bricklayer.

All the big towns around the Sea of Galilee where Jesus worked are more scandalous and reprehensible than was Sodom in Abraham's time, and they will be brought down to hell because of their recalcitrance (Matt.

Valparaiso, to begin there, has a feel these days that is more suburban than small town.

More than 200 people came to the Seventh International Congress in Cape Town last year.