Sentences with phrase «of a small village in»

«I have known Marc Molinaro both personally and professionally for over 20 years as we both served as Mayors of small villages in the 1990's and he has always been there for me.

The residents of a small village in the Swiss Alps start to distrust their local police officer after he decides to shelter a mysterious young woman who arrived directly after the death of a priest.

I balanced on the edge of a thin tin roof, in the middle of a small village in West Africa.

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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.

But by the time everything was over, the village was an estimated $ 8.5 million in debt, a potentially crippling figure for a small village of a few thousand people.

This week the world turned its attention to Panmunjom, a small village that shares a border with both North and South Korea, and the meeting spot for the first summit between the leaders of the two Koreas in 11 years.

Fran Ulmer of the US Arctic Research Commission noted that moving small native villages in Alaska that are sinking under the waves will cost on the order of $ 100 million to $ 200 million apiece:

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

Fast, cheap internet, coupled with a variety of restaurants and small - village feel adds to the gorgeous atmosphere, not to mention it is one of the most beautiful places in Vietnam.

A disproportionate number of successful coin - flippers in the investment world came from a very small intellectual village that could be called Graham - and - Doddsville.

Richeldis de Faverches was a Saxon noblewoman who lived in the small village of Walsingham, in the east of the England.

I am a professor at Catholic University of Louvain and I am also engaged in militant activities including with the Amis du Monde Diplomatique (Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique monthly), as an organiser of the Forum of the Small Villages of the World and the «Groupe de Lisbonne»...»

This little novel tells of curious happenings in a small contemporary English village: ordinary animals and people, it seems, are suddenly turning into extraordinary creatures, into the invisible, supernatural ideas or forms of which our natural examples are but faint images.

It is a well - written and well - researched account of the events that began outside a small village in Portugal in 1917 and that continue to have strong repercussions today.

For Cook, that place, where they were supposed to learn about how to communicate the Gospel was, in fact, standing in the way of the Gospel, at least for the people in that small village.

Fairlie is a small farming village in the center of New Zealand's South Island.

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.

As T. V. Philip observes, almost all of those who went out as missionaries in the earlier period were «a distinctive social class in British society... of craftsmen, small traders, shoe makers, printers, ship builders, school teachers...» William Carey, for instance, plied the trade of a cobbler to supplement his meagre earnings as a village school teacher and Baptist pastor.

One of nine children born to Catholic parents, Susan grew up in the small Scottish village of Blackburn.

You can still catch it at Christmas in a village church when a small child with a strong country accent grapples for the first time with the nativity story in the King James Bible, and the music of the eternal flows into the silent building through his hesitating tongue.

But before turning to Jesus» sayings, let me at least say what one can infer from Q about his life: He grew up in a small village of lower or southern Galilee called in (Q 4:16) Nazara, but always called Nazareth elsewhere in the canonical Gospels, a hamlet perhaps too small even to have had a local synagogue in which Jesus might have learned to read the Hebrew scriptures.

Public education flourished in the nineteenth century and schools came to dominate small town America's landscape in the way cathedrals dominated the landscape of European villages.

While the NKPA overran the smaller cities outside Taegu, city officials from Pun's hometown hid in a nearby cave outside of the village.

There is a monument in Suchowola, a small village in north - eastern Poland, which marks it as the geographical heart of Europe.

When a small church in Wuxi village had its cross removed, a member of the congregation used his welding torch to put it back up.

Speaking of life in a small village, Robert Frost said, «To be social is to be forgiving.»

Sharing in the local horizons of small cities or villages might bond people in intimate memories, and participating in guilds or trades might offer some association outside of family or neighborhood life.

Sennacherib boasts, «As to Hezekiah, the Jew, he did not submit to my yoke; I laid siege to forty - six of his strong cities, walled forts, and to countless small villages in their vicinity, and conquered them... «10 No pride remained in Jerusalem.

Th preserve the «person in community» Daly and Cobb (1989, p. 165) favor development that takes the small group, such as the village, rather than the individual or the nation as the unit of development.

These led him to build a model village out of small rocks, reliving a time in his childhood when he loved to «play with blocks.

It was in his childhood years, spent in Ourous, one of the smallest and most neglected villages in the mountainous heartlands of Guinea, that Sarah first learned to pray.

In a mosque in the village of Kasunjatan, near ancient Banten, where the old mosque of the sultans of Banten still stands, some hair of the Prophet's head is kept in a little box which is placed on a small bedstead which in turn rests on a larger bedsteaIn a mosque in the village of Kasunjatan, near ancient Banten, where the old mosque of the sultans of Banten still stands, some hair of the Prophet's head is kept in a little box which is placed on a small bedstead which in turn rests on a larger bedsteain the village of Kasunjatan, near ancient Banten, where the old mosque of the sultans of Banten still stands, some hair of the Prophet's head is kept in a little box which is placed on a small bedstead which in turn rests on a larger bedsteain a little box which is placed on a small bedstead which in turn rests on a larger bedsteain turn rests on a larger bedstead.

Many fine Ainus and Japanese woodcarvers live and work in the small village of Akan bordering the lake.

Wouldn't it be nice, he writes, «if all of that eerily unsettled rural countryside were instead dense with diversified 100 - acre farmsteads, with their grain and hay rotations, livestock and pastures embedded in a landscape of protected forest, wetland, and prairie,» and in turn supporting an infinity of small villages, connected to the world via all our modern communications pipelines so that people could work at a variety of jobs, but remain connected to the real world by sheer immersion in a particular landscape.

Some of my favorite food from my travels would be Swiss Bircher Muesli served at a guesthouse in a small village near Konstanz, Portuguese pastéis de natas from Pastelaria Aloma in Lisbon (or Café Galao in Berlin) and attiéké, a side dish originally from Côte d'Ivoire, made from grated and fermented cassava.

Such was the case when I happened on a nook of a bakery in a small village near my home that served a wonderful daily soup of lentils and vegetables, alongside huge sandwiches, maple glazed biscuits (another recipe to replicate soon), huge cookies and lofty scones.

With one member of our party showing increasing signs of hanger, we were relieved to discover a small bakery and creperie back in the village, remarkably close to where we'd started.

During the visit we watched a film of a yearly kite celebration in a small Japanese village and some of those kites were 75 feet wide and long!

Yet, perhaps the most potentially repulsive, at least for Western tastes, of grilled meats are found in small poor villages in rural areas: snakes grilled whole, and, on a more intense level, monitor lizards (there are six feet - long lizards, thick as an arm) which are skinned and grilled.

Inspired by an ancient Celtic myth, the «Hawk of Achill» spot is set in a small fishing village on Achill, a rugged island — steeped in folklore and myth — off the coast of Ireland.

«We have a string of small taverns in Las Vegas called Village Pub to pay homage to our original location.»

When Edd was young, he lived in a small village called Thackley, and at the heart of the village was a fairly traditional bakery, serving simple, old - fashioned British baking.

When I was young, I lived in a small village called Thackley, and at the heart of the village was a fairly traditional bakery, serving simple, old - fashioned British baking.

Of course this takes place in a small Mexican village, at the beginning of the last century, so everything is homemade and manually done around the kitchen, but to this day, the mole has remained notorious for being extremely laborious and hard to makOf course this takes place in a small Mexican village, at the beginning of the last century, so everything is homemade and manually done around the kitchen, but to this day, the mole has remained notorious for being extremely laborious and hard to makof the last century, so everything is homemade and manually done around the kitchen, but to this day, the mole has remained notorious for being extremely laborious and hard to make.

In 1966, near the small village of Oakville, Robert Mondavi started his own winery, an architectural wonder and the first tasting room of its kind.

We will spend the second half of the trip at Pietrantica, which is a converted farmhouse guesthouse with an organic garden in the small village of Decontra.

Marco and his wife Maggie live on top of a small mountain near Parma in the agricultural village known as Salsomaggiore and their view is the valley called Bellacavalle, know for its incredibly tasty Parmesan cheese.

The accommodations are crazy amazing: Sextantio, a unique and stunning hotel in the medieval village of Santo Stefano, as well as Pietrantica, a converted farmhouse guesthouse with an organic garden, in the small village of Decontra.

In this small Iowa town, Peter Ausenhus is reviving the concept of the village brewer by crafting 10 - gallon batches of approachable brews such as the hazy, hop - forward Dillon Clock Stopper lager and Queens Pride Honey Lager.

We stayed in the Campania region of Italy, which is in the southern part of the boot, in a small mountain village called Calitri.