Sentences with phrase «near the gate of»

Installment lenders were not included in a 2006 federal law that banned selling some classes of loans with an annual percentage rate above 36 percent to service members — so the companies often set up shop near the gates of military bases, offering loans with annual rates that can soar into the triple digits.

And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow.

Inherent visibility issues don't keep us from enjoying ourselves as we haul through the evergreens, ending up near the gate of Willow Springs in no time at all.

The Centurion lounges are nice lounges but once again, they are in most cases not near the gate of departure.

Not exact matches

But none of the new products the company had produced under its second CEO — from its Bing search engine to its Zune, Kin, and Lumia mobile devices — generated anywhere near the revenues of the smash hits created under its first, cofounder Bill Gates.

By 7 p.m., as dusk drew near, the coffin was lowered into the ground, but when the militiamen began to cover the grave, riot police burst through the gates, firing salvos of tear gas.

That is, it's not simply that the top 20 percent of families have had bigger percentage gains than families near the middle: the top 5 percent have done better than the next 15, the top 1 percent better than the next 4, and so on up to Bill Gates.

I once again look for those times of healing and learning, But like you, I am cursed (or is it blessed) to be camped near these hellish gates.

Though I'm staring into the glowing eyes of atheism, staggering along the gaping chasm of suicide, and camped near the smoking gates of hell, there are millions upon millions of people who have been here a lot longer than I. I'm a newcomer.

No Christian has really lived until they have stared into the glowing eyes of atheism, staggered along the gaping chasm of suicide, and camped near the smoking gates of hell.

The Turkish peoples of the Near East became Moslem, notably the Ottoman Turks who exterminated the Byzantine Empire and carried the Crescent into the Balkan Peninsula and to the gates of Vienna.

«According to the economy of the world, with its measures of greatness, to be the twelve is to be exemplary, in the place to lead, to exclude others from leadership, to stand close to Jesus and guard the gates of who else can draw near.

Not long after Spalatin's return from Cologne, he received a letter from Luther about another kind of book burning: «On 10 December 1520, at nine o'clock in the morning, all the following papal books were burned in Wittenberg at the eastern gate near the Church of the Holy Cross: the Decretum, the Decretals,... and the most recent Bull of Leo X; likewise the Summa Angelica, Eck's Chrysopassus... This was done so that the incendiary papists may see that it doesn't take much to burn books they can not refute.

This mayo is deelish and with financial backers like Bill Gates, expect HCF to be changing the way we think of vegan food in the very near future.

ABOUT POWERS IRISH WHISKEY The origins of Powers Irish Whiskey date back over two hundred years when James Power founded the distillery at John's Lane, near the western gate of Dublin in 1791.

Near Gate 34 in Terminal 1 of Tokyo's Narita Airport is a magical place called Sushi Kyotatsu — the best airport restaurant in the world.

Strung out along the steep headwall near the top of KT - 22, spectators and competitors watch a racer dart through a gate on the first pitch of the men's giant slalom course, considered one of the world's finest racing trails

For the umpteenth time since Tiger Woods moved in near Mark O'Meara's place in Isleworth, a gated, guarded, garish enclave in Orlando, the wise old pro got the better of his talented young neighbor.

Before the two horses had paraded to the starting gate — where Nashua would enter the second stall and Swaps the fourth — both contestants saddled in the infield near the blinking tote board, which reflected from time to time the opinion of some 36,000 witnesses that if Swaps had beaten Nashua once he would surely do it a second time.

Stairs can be one of the most intriguing places for newly mobile babies, so make sure you put a gate at the top and the bottom, or put another plan in place to always monitor them near stairs.

«Cons» weren't widely trafficked family affairs at McCormick Place filled studded with current TV and blockbuster movie stars, they were modest gatherings in Rosemont hotels where outcasts traded VHS tapes of the fabled «Star Wars Holiday Special» and muttered about watching «C - beams glitter in the dark, near the Tannhäuser Gate.»

And since 75 % of injuries are related to falls down stairs, in addition to the above recommendations, don't use a baby walker near stairs, even if you have a gate on the stairs.

The other part of the gate in the right of the photo runs along the stair banister to prevent the baby from getting near the climbing / falling hazard.

Oak Brook — Park District officials have decided to examine the costs of adding an indoor swimming pool to a yet - to - be-completed 60,000 - square - foot recreational center near park headquarters at Jorie Boulevard and Forest Gate Road.

Gate K is adjacent to Gate B, near the corner of Van Ness and Ipswich Streets.

Since 75 percent of injuries are related to falls down stairs, in addition to the above recommendations, don't use a baby walker near stairs, even if you have a gate on the stairs.

If you are thinking of a stand - alone gate as your barricade, this might not be a great idea as babies can easily pull it down and get near to the fireplace.

Eventually, every gate becomes ineffective and near stairwells, you will be giving your child a false sense of security if you put one up.

The Banks located very close to the gate of the Bowen University Iwo were invaded at about 4 pm as the robbers demobilized an armoured personnel carrier which was near the banks.

After two students drowned in the water near a tunnel, Cornell officials have proposed installing a steel gate at its opening — blocking the only entrance to a section of Fall Creek Gorge stretching from the top of Ithaca Falls to the swimming area below Forest Falls — and the City Council is scheduled to vote on the proposal tomorrow.

Last night's big surprise was the near upset in NY - 25, where little known Republican Gates Town Supervisor Mark Assini was within 605 votes of toppling 14 - term veteran Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter.

Three students from the Law Faculty of the Central University College have been crushed to death in an accident in front of the school's main gate at Miotso near Prampram in the Greater Accra Region.

Youri takes out the dosimeter and puts it near the ground in front of the sarcophagus gate.

A team led by Venugopalatan Ittekkot of the University of Hamburg in Germany analyzed data on nutrients such as silicates and nitrogen before and after the Iron Gates dam near the Romania - Yugoslavia border was built in the early 1970s.

Their results indicate that some of its effects on HCN channels are state specific and involve specific modifications near the activation gate.

For Gates, «big science» can mean the use of big machines and big research groups, as happens at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's premier particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland.

Right out of the starting gate, Michigan's expansion of health coverage for the poor and near - poor holds lessons for other states that are still on the fence about expanding their own Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, a new analysis shows.

«It's crazy how little we are funding this energy stuff,» Gates today told an audience at a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) conference near Washington, D.C. «Funding for energy [research] in the U.S. is underfunded by a factor of two.»

They were on the road, living in cramped quarters with sporadic downtime and in a new city every day: in San Francisco, we ran the steep hills and stretched near the Golden Gate Bridge; at Coachella, we worked our cores in the shade of a palm tree; in Toronto, we did planks, lunges and squats in a tiny green room at Massey Hall; visiting the Ellen Show, we worked on balance and flexibility in the waiting area.

No it's not likely to be nearing thirty degrees nor include sandy beaches & whimsical pictures (hold that, it definitely will include whimsical shots at Golden Gate Bridge), but what my trip to San Fran most definitely will include is a whole array of (new) dresses which i've been picking up across the last few weeks & saving for the big trip!

Beyond the jumbo jet sitting at the nearest gate, across a wide stretch of tarmac and behind another row of smaller planes was a long low building I had never noticed before.

Dreamland While oddly located near a gated community of luxury homes and resorts, Dreamland beach is open to the public and worth visiting (whether you're a surfer or not).

A regular spot used by dating events company Table8, this gastro pub near Notting Hill Gate is a chic, yet affordable option in a lovely part of town.

It's 2154, and the elite of this planet, apparently great fans of Larry Niven's Ringworld, have fled to a gated community in the sky, which floats like a second moon in near orbit (and which can be reached surprisingly quickly via a nifty shuttle system — my how technology will have improved in 140 years!).

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity features more than 20 distinct Mystery Dungeons that change every time they are entered, granting players and their Pokémon a near - infinite amount of adventurous possibilities.

It was created by a near - autistic genius named James Halliday (Mark Rylance), in conjunction, somehow, with a dude named Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg), whom he eventually pushes out in a sort of Bill Gates / Paul Allen - style putsch.

The results might still be good, but nowhere near the stuff that we all know [Aardman are] capable of» — Andrew Parker, The Gate

For, during his near - death experience on the side of the road, he'd briefly entered the proverbial Pearly Gates.

A number of schools across London have set up «car - free zones» near their school gates, while others have «park and stride» spots where parents park a distance from the school gate and walk the rest of the way.

California is already starting near the back of the pack, he said, because 15 other states are receiving money from the Seattle - based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to complete their Race to the Top applications.