Sentences with phrase «more traditional cities»

Unlike more traditional cities, downtown is most often not the most central location.
Then the Enron scandal ended the multi-disciplinary ambitions of accountancy firms, so I decided to swiftly move to the finance team in a more traditional City firm, Ashurst.

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And «while some cities and ZIP codes, like Seattle, may be more recognizable as traditional hipster havens,» others are more «under - the - radar» and not in the priciest big cities.
Says Vaculik, expanding transport beyond traditional roads could help bypass trillions in estimated infrastructure costs, save consumers lost time driving, create more efficient networks between cities and even make way for a fleet of ridesharing options — Ubers and Lyfts in air.
In Canada, Dylan's will face fierce competition from Chocolats Favoris, a Quebec City - based artisanal confectioner that recently opened more Canadian locations, and Montreal - based Squish, which was founded in 2014 and boasts over 100 flavours of gourmet candies that come in traditional flavours, but also feature some more imaginative ones including sangria, bourbon, chili ginger, champagne, yogurt and elderberry.
Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.
The Secular City helped accelerate the secularization of American elite culture, which created not only new openings in the public square for more - traditional religious bodies but also new fault lines in our politics» fault lines that are as visible as this morning's headlines and op - ed pages.
Unfortunately, due to the rise of the more evangelical - style, «southern U.S.» baptist imports, along with other varieties of Baptist churches that are very much untraditional, the traditional Baptist style appears to be dying away and only a few traditional churches remain, most of which probably existing in metropolitan cities.
Across the religious world, the word secular, now used in a positive, not pejorative, sense and the word city, now used as if far more promising than anything rural, agrarian, or traditional, rang out on everybody's lips.
Levine speculated that country Australians were more partial to cheese than city dwellers as they had more traditional tastes in food, were less likely to be concerned about their cholesterol and opted for more calcium in their diets.
Baker notes: «The explosion of craft beer segment along with on - premise consumption will drive more small brewers to open their outlets in cities as traditional distribution channels are crowded with big brands.
Founded in 2003, The Counter ®'s mission was to challenge the traditional burger joint and the Culver City, California - based brand grew into more than 40 stores.
And despite being Barcelona born and bred, the 2014/15 FA Cup - winner hasn't taken too long to adapt to his new surroundings, including the capital city's more traditional cuisine.
(Reminder: City switch between systems a lot and these numbers encompass all of them, including the times where they play with the more traditional back four.)
Birth Centers are becoming more and more common in the Twin Cities, as more and more women are choosing to forgo the traditional «hospital birth.»
Daycare costs will vary greatly according to where you live (cost of living based on which part of the country you are at as well as whether you reside in a large city or small town), whether you need traditional hours and services or require a more unique arrangement, and on the age of your child.
The main government sponsors of Shia extremism or terrorist actions - Iran and Syria, are within the traditional city - state structure, so they are a bit more pragmatic in how they want their support to be directed, because they have their own nations at risk.
New York City will soon change the way mentally ill inmates are disciplined after breaking rules while in jail, creating alternatives to the more traditional approach of solitary confinement used for most inmates.
Just that if we talk more about England, its authenticity will depend on representing England now and who the English now are, so it will need to encompass the identities of our cities, as well as rural areas, and combine traditional and modern expressions of Englishness.
Perhaps his constituents know a little more about him — that he's run as a lone Republican, traditional values politician in a city full of Democratic representatives.
City officials have said they want to rebrand the city as a more youth - savvy destination, but also keep sustained focus on more traditional draws, including arts, culture and the city's historic downtCity officials have said they want to rebrand the city as a more youth - savvy destination, but also keep sustained focus on more traditional draws, including arts, culture and the city's historic downtcity as a more youth - savvy destination, but also keep sustained focus on more traditional draws, including arts, culture and the city's historic downtcity's historic downtown.
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson selected a piece of art from the Whitney to decorate City Hall, adding a modern touch to the more traditional oil paintings in the building.
Klein joined Congressman Eliot Engel; New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat; New York Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz; and New York City Councilman Andrew Cohen, in filing amici curiae briefs on April 7, 2014, urged New Jersey's Superior Court, Appellate Division to invalidate LG's variance to exceed the traditional 35 - foot height limit in towns surrounding the Park by more than fourfold.
He said, however, that Cuomo's biggest benefactors remain the traditional lobbying powers: businesses supporting his initiative to cap the growth of property taxes; landlords, developers and tenant advocates who sought the continuation of New York City's rent control law; and more from contributors with interests in health care and education.
A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.
Both suburban New York City counties — traditional havens for Republican votes — have become more Democratic in recent years.
«Reapportionment and term limits combined to make the City Council younger, a little bit further to the left, perhaps less a product of traditional political organizations or machines, and demographically, a little more like the population of the city,» said Kenneth Sherrill, Chair of the Political Science Department at Hunter CollCity Council younger, a little bit further to the left, perhaps less a product of traditional political organizations or machines, and demographically, a little more like the population of the city,» said Kenneth Sherrill, Chair of the Political Science Department at Hunter Collcity,» said Kenneth Sherrill, Chair of the Political Science Department at Hunter College.
Last week, Mr. Silver questioned whether it was necessary to raise the charter cap in New York City, saying that the more money that goes to charters, the less goes to traditional public schools.
According to an abstract provided by the city, the de Blasio administration plans several high - profile changes in more traditional environmental policy, often building on work from Mr. Bloomberg's tenure.
If these states stopped effectively double - counting their resources, they would have to change laws, upend traditional water rights and likely force farmers and cities to accept even more dramatic cuts than they already face — a political third rail.
While they are promoted as a way to quit traditional cigarettes, they also are promoted as a way to get nicotine in environments where traditional cigarettes are prohibited, even though more than 430 cities and several states ban their use in smoke free sites where conventional cigarettes are also prohibited.
The approach began in New York City in 1991 and today there are more than 30 community courts in the United States, all sharing traditional court goals of reducing crime, ensuring safety and protecting due process rights.
The project will also demonstrate its competence in emerging application areas with highly demanding requirements requiring cloud and Big Data technologies such as machine - to - machine, Internet of Things and smart * (smart grid, smart cities, smart transport, etc.) and other more traditional areas such as online applications, multimedia applications, or distributed games demanding Big Data support to go beyond their current functionalities.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, director of scholarly communication for the Modern Language Association and a visiting professor at New York University in New York City who studies how networked communication technologies affect scholarship, found in her experiments that, for authors, interactive peer review is «more work than a traditional review process,» she says.
LIQUITERIA Claim Thanks to a cold - press process called the Norwalk method (it kills fewer nutrients than traditional, heat - based ways to extract juice), these drinks made in New York City may contain three to five times more vitamins, minerals and enzymes than other brands using a different procedure.
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I live in a traditional city in the South, and here people tend to wear more muted colors for funerals and visitations.
More like traditional dating services where events are setup to meet people in your city.
And reflecting what they saw on their trip, «Black Panther» showcases a pleasant mix of folks living more traditional, tribal lifestyles and those «people that are fully in the city life, but it's an African city life.»
Gradually, the pictures, mainly portraits, take on more and more touches of color; at the turning point of the story, when Masako leaves her parents» home for the city of Osaka, the bright red of her dress practically jumps off the page as staid passersby in brown and gray traditional clothing look at her in shock.
CREDO had done a national study that found more charters doing badly compared to their feeder schools from the traditional public sector, and an NBER study in New York City found substantially better performance of charters versus traditional public schools.
The New York City - based foundation said it hopes its new «students at the center» grant program will help train teachers to abandon traditional 40 - minute lectures for more - active approaches in the classroom, such as problem - solving, critical thinking, and hands - on learning.
And we know that, more often than not, the students attending traditional public schools in cities are in intensely segregated schools.
The research team used data from more than 1,300 8th graders attending 32 public schools in Boston, including traditional public schools, exam schools that admit only the city's most academically talented students, and oversubscribed charter schools.
According to the authors» own numbers in Table 20, more than half (56 percent) of charter school students attend school in a city, compared to less than one - third (30 percent) of traditional public school students.
Recently, some cities and states have introduced policies that return to more traditional practices.
Some estimate there are currently 20,000 to 30,000 more seats than students in the city's traditional and charter schools.
The University of Johannesburg is one of South Africa's largest city universities and offers technological and traditional academic programs to more than 46,000 students.
Similarly, the Stanford University Center for Research on Education Outcomes [4] found in a 2013 study that after only a year, New York City charter school students gained substantially more in reading and math than their traditional school peers.
A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.
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