Sentences with phrase «of city noises»

Clients may say, «I want my dog to enjoy her walks,» or «I want to be able to invite my relatives over to my house without them getting snarled at,» or, «I want my dog to stop being afraid of city noises.»

Tired of the city noise?

Taking place in high - rise hotel rooms, several stories above street - level, three films find K.E. and Meisenberg walled - in by the clean, generic spaces — it's as if the semi-reflective, screen - like windows offer refuge or vacation from the bombardment of city noise and visual overflow.

Not exact matches

Uber is already available in 42 cities, from New York to Taipei, and isn't slowing down, despite noise from regulators: A new round of $ 258 million in funding values it at $ 3.4 billion (see Uber feature story).

You're zipping along on your bicycle, with no way to hear anything over the noise of the city.

After successfully silencing the tug boats whose tooting tormented her on the porch of her Riverside Avenue mansion, Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, the wife of venture capitalist Isaac Rice, founded the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise in New York in order to combat what she called «one of the greatest banes of city life.»

She has served as executive producer of four documentary films, including Kicking It, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; A Powerful Noise, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival; She Is the Matador; and The Other City, a critically acclaimed portrayal of the HIV / AIDS crisis in Washington, DC, which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

The financial whizzes cocooned in the serene offices of the Sequoia Fund atop one of New York's iconic office buildings seem far removed from the noise of the city far below.

As a wealthy investor he now spends most of his time running his equity portfolio from an office in the heart of rural Leicestershire, far from the noise of the City of London.

With the growth of the city, however, the increase in traffic and urban noise threatened the solitude of the abbey.

Well, Marty tells us, that phrase — which is not found in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights but comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson sent to a group of Connecticut Baptists — will not be of much help to a congregation that needs to challenge a local zoning ordinance, or to ask the city police force for help in keeping the neighborhood noise level down during Sunday morning worship hours.

Joseph H. Fichter, Dynamics of a City Church (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1951); Peter Berger, The Noise of Solemn Assemblies: Christian Commitment and the Religious Establishment in America (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1961); Gibson Winter, The Suburban Captivity of the Churches.

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

The article that created all the noise interviewed a couple of people in the cities who don't eat quinoa much (quinoa has been demonized for 500 years in South America by the Spanish and is just now starting to be rediscovered and integrated into the diets of city dwellers).

«New York City is a beautiful, one - of - a-kind place, and the people who are willing to do what it takes to live here — deal with the crowds and the commotion and the noise — deserve a little sonic gift like this,» Murphy said.

Moving on from it all for this season i fear for worst to come next season (just had a deja vu i say the same thing every season around this time) City already are talking spending 600 Million in the next two to three years on new players and you can bet Man - U will follow to try and close the gap, Liverpool can sell one player and buy an entire squad, Chelsea owner Abromovich has started to make noise's about next season so they will be spending, spuds will try to keep their existing players with one or two additions to strengthen and some salary rises to keep the elite, and Arsenal will go head to head with the likes of Burnley Everton Leicester for average players signature, and the board will make sure even if they replace AW they will replace him with AW No2 who will do what the board decides on who and how much to spend

Slam City, the city, thrives on a dunk - driven economy and is basically this giant graffiti - ed Hooverville where the sport of basketball is reduced to yelling, shoving each other, and wrestling around for a loose ball while making grunting noiCity, the city, thrives on a dunk - driven economy and is basically this giant graffiti - ed Hooverville where the sport of basketball is reduced to yelling, shoving each other, and wrestling around for a loose ball while making grunting noicity, thrives on a dunk - driven economy and is basically this giant graffiti - ed Hooverville where the sport of basketball is reduced to yelling, shoving each other, and wrestling around for a loose ball while making grunting noises.

All that transfer noise wouldn't let you realize how good our moderately priced stars are until out of the blue, we play a full strength Man City side that is currently managed by the demi god, Pep Guardiola.

He had plenty of opportunities to make noise in the postseason with Kansas City, but the team consistently laid an egg in January.

Very true Wayne Barker don't worry about the justarsenal fans they're delusional at the best of times, Chelsea, Man City and Man United are way better than Arsenal as things stand, we've only beaten a useless Watford side but fans are making noise as if we've beaten Barcelona!

The average teenage boy in Los Angeles in the early»70s seemed to be a pinball of emotions and noise, bouncing off the city walls, screaming into the adolescent night.

MIKE KEEGAN: Rumours of a move away from New York City FC for Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira are like the noise of the Big Apple traffic as it crawls t...

After Liverpool's mauling of Manchester City last night with the help of the Anfield crowd, Sporting Clube de Portugal didn't do much to quell the noise coming from the stands in the Europa League quarter - final at the Wanda Metropolitano on Thursday night.

These are two of the smallest stands in the stadium but they make a great noise and home some of Hull City's loudest supporters.

Luke Organ: When we launch season tickets, you will see over the course of the next five weeks a lot of noise in the city.

Naperville Park District officials have said that the $ 2.5 million sports complex is a necessity in one of the fastest - growing zones in the city and that they are willing to work with residents to alleviate concerns about lighting, noise, flooding, traffic congestion and safety.

Spurred by her own concerns as well as complaints from Grant Park patrons about the traffic noise, Catherine Cahill, festival director of concert programs, has secured a city permit allowing the Park District to close off heavily traveled Jackson Street between Columbus and Lake Shore on concert nights through July.

This app gives you the option of listening to nature sounds like waterfalls or thunderstorms, or you can listen to mechanic noises like fans and even the sound of a busy city street.

Hearing is yet one more vulnerability that until recent times faced little peril, but the chronic noise in our cities, the ubiquity of personal headphone use and the ear - damaging potential of some medication has made preserving good hearing something no parent can ignore.

to nature sounds like waterfalls or thunderstorms, or you can listen to mechanic noises like fans and even the sound of a busy city street.

Driving down the dusty main road of Butembo — a city of over half a million people, in the eastern DRC province of North Kivu — I hear the usual urban Congolese noises of motorcycles and lorries driving madly by.

The City Council and district attorneys have played a big part in the reduction of noise summonses by enacting laws and policies that de-emphasize enforcement of quality - of - life offenses, said John Jay College professor Joseph Giacalone.

The bill, Intro 420, would require that construction noise next to city schools not reach above 45 decibels and would task the Department of Environmental Protection with providing regular enforcement.

The East 91st Street project — which residents fear will bring bringing vermin, noise and a host of health and traffic - safety problems to the area — was recently propelled from being a primarily neighborhood controversy to a top talking point both for mayoral contenders and pols across the city.

City dwellers made 80,752 noise complaints in the first three months of this year, up 18 percent from the same period last year when 68,166 calls were made, according to 311 records.

New York City residents made 80,752 noise complaints in the first three months of this year, up 18 percent from the same period last year, but police wrote only 475 tickets for loud disturbances in that time — a 65 percent drop.

At noon, NYC Council members Carlos Menchaca, Helen Rosenthal and Margaret Chin lead rally in support of legislation to regulate tourist helicopter noise, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

With two weeks to go before a decision is due, New York City officials are still making noise behind the scenes about concerns with Altice NV's proposed acquisition of Cablevision Systems Corp..

Officer McDonald's service has been recognized and praised by the public due to his handling of a noise complaint of loud music being played in the City of Buffalo.

City dwellers made 80,752 noise complaints in the first three months of this year, up...

By Paul Snyder Four years of silence separated a Madison alderman's proposal to limit weekend construction noise and the city attorney's proposal to kill the idea.

Billed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn as a move toward environmental justice, the East 91st Street project has long gotten flak from locals — who claim it will bring pollution, noise, rats, and wreak havoc on the overall quality - of - life.

For many residents, the worst noise came not from the blasts themselves, but from the blowing of the safety horns which is required by the New York City Fire Department.

Meanwhile, the parents also met in early 2014 with City Councilman Mark Levine (D - Manhattan) to get him to sponsor a bill restricting noise at construction sites within 50 feet of schools and hospitals to no more than 45 decibels.

I assumed that they may have forgotten that there is a ban in force, given the fact that noise making is actually the «surname» of the city of Accra and also the «middle name» of almost all outdoor public gatherings.

Nearly half the City Council — including a contingent of soft - on - crime pols — wants the NYPD to rescind an order that bars cops handling noise complaints from entering a home unless they're invited in.

The two Upper Manhattan areas were responsible for 24,923 of the 408,647 noise complaints that city 311 operators fielded over the past year, significantly more than other neighborhoods.

«This neighborhood has always ranked one or two in noise complaints, and a lot of it has to do with bar rowdiness,» Espaillat said at a press conference with City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

Officials admitted then that the contractor was regularly exceeding the city noise codes by about 10 decibels, in spite of attempts to make the work quieter.