Sentences with phrase «of a small town on»

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy spoke about his plan to change the formula for state aid to municipalities with the leaders of small towns on Wednesday.

Approximately 30 minutes from Atlanta, Conyers is the smallest of the small towns on our list with a population of just over 15,000.

The name of this small town on the Pacific translates as «hidden port,» and it does feel like a secret getaway hidden between the jungle and the sea.

It only takes a couple of nights until you have a good overview of this small town on the border to Laos.

In the foreboding mystery game Kona, players explore the quiet world of a small town on the Canadian frontier in the 1970s.

Accompanied by additional images from Gerard Byrne, Jan Dibbets and Reiner Ruthenbeck, the ethics of marketing and advertising, the various goings - on of a small town on the Irish border, and the myth and reality of the sturdy Irish drinker all prominently feature.

This exhibition offers eleven views of small towns on the North American prairie.

A solitary station in the heat bubble of a small town on Ellesmere Island (called Eureka, ironically enough) is used as a proxy for the entire Canadian Arctic, all the way to the Alaskan border on the other side of the continent.

Not exact matches

On the night of June 25, 1974, a team from the National Cash Register installed new scanners and computers at the Marsh Supermarket in the small town of Troy, Ohio.

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

While growing up, Jake and his younger sister, Caroline Danehy, spent many summers in the small town of Fair Harbor on Fire Island.

First responders quickly converged on the church in Sutherland Springs, a small town east of San Antonio with a population under 1,000.

At a program such as Arkansas State, located in a small town and without the benefit of being the state's flagship university or being a member of a major conference, great results are contingent on the ability to market better, faster and with less resources.

When former CN Rail CEO Paul Tellier told his staff that making a profit was necessary for the future survival of the firm, Amernic and Craig castigate him for ignoring the impact rail service cuts would have on small Canadian towns.

James Maclean, an engineer at the office who happens to be from Hawkestone — a small town north of Barrie — tested it out on his village and added in all sorts of stuff.

Late on a Wednesday night last May, a small troupe of staffers from the SBA's Richmond office gathered at a cramped television studio on the near northwest side of town.

As 3 a.m. was closing in on election night, Ron Ferrance sat in a crowded party for local Republican volunteers in the small town of Dallas, Pennsylvania.

A swathe of small towns across middle America will be rolling out the red carpet for people clamoring to see the total solar eclipse on August 21 — the first coast - to - coast total solar eclipse in the U.S. since 1918 — only visible from a few places.

It took a year of big town hall meetings, small working sessions, and internal conversations on Workplace by Facebook to find the answer.

Joshua Benton, head of the Nieman Journalism Lab, described in a recent essay how residents of the small Louisiana town he was raised in posted and re-posted hoaxes and false news reports about Hillary Clinton and other topics on Facebook.

That includes a focus on communities of color, the military community, LGBTQ, people with disabilities and those in small towns and cities.

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

On Wednesday March 24, the small rural town of Moora was declared a disaster area.

Dickinson, a small town southeast of Houston on Galveston Bay, has been one of the hardest hit communities by Hurricane Harvey.

Women are a significant force in small and medium businesses but they need to think bigger if they're going to take on the big end of town.

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Nate lives in the small town of Grande Prairie, Alberta (population: 68,000)-- a four - hour connecting flight from Vancouver — and we'd spent our entire relationship dealing with the toll the long distance was taking on our hearts and bank accounts.

My interest in the intersection of money and meaning was formalized when I studied abroad in Madagascar, living in a small town on the southeast part of the island called Fort Dauphin.

From the metropolis of Boston to the small fishing towns on the coast, Massachusetts has something to offer everyone.

It town prides itself on offering all the conveniences of modern - day life in a small pioneer village.

The four guys from the small town of Possum Kingdom, South Carolina, got big buzz when their debut album, Daylight, dropped on Atlantic Records last year.

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.

Agatha and James heal their breach in the Vatican (she is there on a New Year's tour of Italy), a small town that is a universal city.

To readers of Gilead and Home, the earlier of Robinson's works focusing on the small Iowa town, Lila will be familiar as the much - younger wife of John Ames, the town's Congregationalist minister (and the narrator of Gilead).

Destruction of the two cities — God seeks out Abraham to intercede on their behalf (this dialog speaks volumes to the nature of God's judgment); even when ten righteous are not found, he intentionally spares Lot's family, and then at Lot's request spares a small town that would otherwise have been destroyed.

Born in 1913, in a small Ontario town where his father was editor of the local newspaper, Davies went on to university both in Canada and at Balliol College, Oxford.

While Amman is the larget of those remaining, according to a segment I watched on the history channel, the Philadelphia mentioned in the bible refers to a small town located in modern day Turkey known as Alasehir.

Except for the political satire (a side of Keillor rarely exhibited on the radio), they are generally midwestern, and celebrate baseball, small towns, «shy rights» («why not pretty soon?»)

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

The mundane aspects of the small Texas town of Cross Plains beat like a hammer against the dreams of the protagonist, a writer of fantasy named Conall Weaver, who is based on Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian.

Nuisance troublemaking against Christians goes on quite unnoticed in the smaller towns and villages, but the problem in Islamabad became a cause célèbre because a number of diplomats worship in the house parish that seeks to build a permanent church.

So far the work reminds me of my experience serving on a small town city council in Missouri.

Oh, and by the way, this Pastor is a HUGH blip on my gay - dar - I would fathom most of his hatred likely stems from his closeted life in small - town Kansas.

Berry agrees, but one wonders if he would ever admit that his own partisan thumos in defense of the land has not itself become a commodity to be sold on a market for urban types who feel alienated from their own small town and rural backgrounds.

Well today I have the chance to be at one of those conferences — Big Tent Christianity — primarily because I'm a poor writer from a small town whose publisher took pity on her and paid the way.

One hundred years ago, when the great majority of Americans lived in small towns or on farms, solidarity was....

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

The plot of Equus was suggested to Shaffer by an actual fait - divers which occurred some years ago on the outskirts of a small English town.

You've mentioned on your site that the combination of the your reputation and small town living has caused some discomfort in past church appearances.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,